Quotes About Football

Management brings the best and worst out of me, and I think you have to find a distinction between what is work and what isn't work, because football can take over your life.

Everyone's expecting you to be playing fantastic football, winning every game, and course it doesn't happen like that.

It is always difficult, if you win against City, everybody expects it to be an easy win, but it will not be easy. It will be very difficult.

Everyone expects a lot of things from El Clasico.

Unfortunately, from my days as national coach were going backwards in terms of we dont see it as an investment, we see it as an expense. We just have too short-term thinking, there just arent enough people with a broader vision as to how we can actually we can make Australia a force in world football.

The fact I am the most expensive player is not a burden.

For you to even enquire about one player, he is expensive. You go to buy a right-back, a left-back, or a central defender, and he is expensive.

£25million or £30m or £20m - whether you are expensive or not, players are just players.

What happens here, the daily agenda of Arsenal, is very different from what I experienced in Monchengladbach.

Mano Menezes is a fantastic coach, but Scolari is a fantastic coach, too, as well as being more experienced.

I could never hate Inter - make that clear to everybody. It's impossible because they were my best years. I did everything for that club, scoring almost a goal a game, suffering, celebrating and experiencing emotions which I'd never felt anywhere else.

I'm by no means an expert at coaching high school football. I'm doing the best I can in Year 1. But I've already learned a lot of lessons and I imagine I'll keep learning them.

Klopp is a great expert in football and I always said that I'd have liked to work with him when I was in my best form. He is a complete coach, he has everything.

I like to follow the training session with my voice. To call at them and explain my reasons and my ideas of football. It's important to make them understand: when to move, to time it right, not wrong - the right movement.

You can get exposed at full-back - it is that kind of position.

The amount of TV exposure we have had and the attention women's football has got has been brilliant.

British managers tend to be a bit more hands off, let you express yourself in training.

I am very happy to have extended my contract with PSG.

To step out at Craven Cottage - week in, week out - as a local boy is just extra special.

All goals are amazing. But scoring away from home, if I am honest, is extra special.

I was still only 19 when I went to Scotland, but it was a good loan move for me to play those extra games.

With Ancelotti I played less, but he did extraordinary things at Real and this is what counts.

Kylian is able to do extraordinary things. Look at his stats. He is efficient.

When you're a kid you just think about where you are going to be to put yourself in a position for the next scoring chance. But as you develop, you start to do things that may not catch the eye of the normal football watcher, the dropping back, the closing down.