Glenn Hoddle Quotes

I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options.

It's not easy to create chances or a game when you're just receiving long balls.

In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.

There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders.

It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.

I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.

At Tottenham, I'm asked to take a lot of risks to keep maximum possession of the ball and build from the back.

The truth is I like the style of playing the ball out and hitting long passes.

When you have players like Aaron Ramsey, Gareth Bale, and Joe Allen, you've got to play football.

We've got to make sure we have players that can break teams down because there's no space in behind; we need to problem-solve in a different way.

In England and Germany, perhaps, there is more of a focus on the physical side of the game, in breaking down the opposition's play, especially against the lower placed sides.

I like to be in contact with the ball, have possession, to play.

It is impossible to do it for the whole game, but when you have the ball for most of the game and have players like Samir Nasri, David Silva, Yaya Toure, and Raheem Sterling, they keep the ball so well.

Maybe Klopp is the best manager in the world at creating teams who attack the back four with so many players, from almost anywhere on the pitch. They have an intensity with the ball and without the ball, and it is not easy to do that.

Our style of play is increasingly based on possession of the ball. It suits me as a forward. We've got an attacking approach, and that means that I get a lot of chances; otherwise, I would have not been able to score so many goals.

With a line of six in the defence and then three in front of that, it's not always easy to find the spaces to score the goals.

United are capable of setting up a low block and making it difficult, but they're also capable of coming out and pressing high.

We try and play football in a positive way. Any team has to be defensively organised, but you have to look at the attributes of the players and play to their strengths.

I've always been looking to get goals and assists, and to do that, I need to be higher up the pitch.

Some big teams prefer to be very strong defensively and have two, three, four counter-attacking players.

There is no Benitez 'method.' We try to be more solid in defense without losing the quality in attack.

If you can play effective counter-attacking football, as you see in the Premier League, it's very effective.

My teams have always been dominant about having the ball but having the ball to create opportunities. That's always been the clear way of my work.

The important thing for me is we want to keep the ball, we want to have the ball because we are Arsenal football club.

I don't think City play a Brazilian style - it is more Spanish the way we play here.