Quotes About First-team

At Palace, I feel like a first-team player, and I have got the opportunity to play every week.

If we are encouraging kids to go into academies, then presumably we are selling them the dream that they can play first-team football.

Chelsea is the main goal for me, I want to play in their first-team.

I was playing first-team football at Cardiff at 16.

I want to be playing competitive first-team football every week and not reserve team football.

Before Bolton I played for Real Madrid and I was getting involved in the first-team training since I was 16 and then I played with the first team at 18.

They're great memories, not just as a footballer but as a person growing up - it sounds daft, but to come away from Liverpool to play the first-team football I needed. It's a fantastic place, a huge football club and they helped me a lot. I'm grateful for coming through there.

I signed for City in 2013 but I've never met Pep Guardiola or any of the first-team players.

I'm really excited by this opportunity to continue helping develop and work with some of the great young players we have coming through in the first-team environment and to work alongside Unai and his coaching team to help Arsenal win trophies.

I want to continue to be a first-team regular here at Madrid. That is my long-term goal.