Source: Team_Talk
Ince: I have nothing to prove
The former England captain, 41, has signed a two-year contract to replace Roberto Di Matteo at stadium:mk just 12 months after leaving the club for Blackburn.
His short spell in the top flight proved unsuccessful, with Rovers winning just three of his 17 Premier League games in charge before he was sacked in December, but Ince believes his record is still impressive.
He said: "I have nothing to prove to anyone, my record speaks for itself.
"At Macclesfield I was successful and then I won the double here in Milton Keynes in my first season. Blackburn was a great learning curve for me and I feel like I wasn't given the tools I needed to do the job properly up there.
"But it's six months' experience of managing in the top flight which will stand me in good stead for the rest of my career."
Ince finds himself back at a club which finished third in League One last season under Di Matteo - who became West Brom's new boss just last week - but believes that the Dons face a tougher challenge this time around.
He said: "In an ideal world we will get promotion again but it doesn't always work that way. I felt that last season was a great chance for the Dons to get into the Championship but this year the league is a lot tougher.
"I felt when I left that the team was ready to go up again and we are a better side than Peterborough, and they went up instead.
"There are some big teams who have come down like Charlton and Norwich and it will be tough. We take the confidence from last season's performance though and I want to bring in four or five players to make us a stronger unit.
"I don't want to give anyone high expectations but the ambition is to take this club to the level where it belongs."
Ince also confirmed that he is in talks with Blackburn over the future of coach Karl Robinson, who joined the Ewood Park club with Ince last summer.
He said: "We are trying to do something with Blackburn to bring Karl Robinson over. He was here two years ago and I want to work with him again and then I want to bring in another two as well.
"But I will sit down with the chairman and work to get that team together and push this forward."
Chairman Pete Winkelman believes that Ince's ill-fated tenure at Blackburn will only benefit the Dons in their search for Championship football.
Winkelman said: "Being in the Premier League will have made him a more rounded and experienced manager and I think we get him back in better condition than he left.
"When you take on the Premier League there is so much more that goes with it but he understands that now. He has been on a big learning curve and I believe we will be the beneficiaries of his time there.
"He still has the hunger and one thing we all know is that Paul Ince is a winner.
"There are no clauses in his contract. It's a two-year deal and I expect us to go through that.
"But I'm a realist and football can change at any time. We do things rightly at this club and you can see that by the fact that he agreed to come back."
