Quotes from Paul Merson

When you rotate, you have to get the balance right. When you rotate and you win, it's great but when you rotate and you don't win, that's when the problems start.

If I can help one person by sharing my story then in my eyes it's a success.

If I don't have a bet or a drink today, then I've done well. And I can start again tomorrow.

I was getting up in the morning and betting on Lithuanian under-20 basketball matches.

If you want to be successful, you need consistency and if you don't have it, you've got no chance.

You do not want to be playing good teams and always let them have 70 per cent of the ball, and expect it to work every time. That does not happen often.

There is one thing that will never change in football. The centre forward is only as good as the people that are giving him the ball, and the people that are giving him the ball are only as good as the centre forward they are giving it to.

I'll take the accolades when they are there and I'll take it on the chin when things aren't great.

It's alright people saying they get £100,000-a-week, they get paid well or whatever, but they want to play football.

I'm an addictive person. If I open a bag of sweets, I won't just eat one or two, I'll eat the lot. If I go and play on my computer, it won't be just for an hour, it'll be for five hours.

To work under Brendan Rodgers would certainly be a good move for Ainsley Maitland-Niles but the most important thing for the player is to go somewhere he can play in his preferred position, which is in midfield.

Legend is a term bandied about too much in football, but in Premier League terms Sergio Aguero is an absolute legend.

I like Tammy Abraham and Olivier Giroud, they are good players, but are they going to win you the Premier League? No, and I say that because they are not going to be in the top five or six goal scorers in the league.

There are not many players about who can go up front and be a target man, be strong, put his body in the way, score goals and then in the game, he can drop off and hit a 30-yard ball through the eye of a needle and knit play together.

If you have Robbie Williams and Elton John at Wembley in front of 100,000 people, it will be the best thing you've seen. They are entertainers, they fly off the adrenaline.

When you start drinking, everything goes out of the window. You don't care about anything. You don't even care about yourself.

But that's why the fans liked me so much. 'Cos I am one of them. If they were in one pub down the road, and there was a wine bar up that road, I'd be in the pub with the fans. That was me.

I used to think I was a bad person, I'd drink and gamble a lot and I didn't want to but I kept on doing it and ending back at the same place. It made me think 'this can't be right, I'm not that bad of a person'.

I couldn't believe Wolves let Matt Doherty go. For the price Wolves let him go for, I didn't get that one at all.

If you look at the world, there's only maybe only Brazil or Argentina that can win a World Cup that aren't in Europe.

Agents in this day and age, they're not just agents. They're a parent, they're a best friend, they're a financial advisor, they book holidays, they go away with each other.

Hakim Ziyech has got a left foot that can open a can of worms, Timo Werner scores plenty of goals, Tammy Abraham looks like he's getting better and then there's Mason Mount. They've just got so much attacking talent.

Never worry about what people think. That's what drove me to drinking a lot of time, worrying about what people thought of me.

Before, I would literally watch people ringing me trying to help me, but I wouldn't take the calls. It's the worst place to be, having that fear that it's never going to get better. You have to talk.