Frenkie de Jong Quotes

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.

The football in Spain is more about skill and technique. Every team tries to play good football. The physical side, with plenty of running and hard tackling, plays more of a role in the Bundesliga.

Arsene Wenger's style of play is the sort of style the Chilean national team has. Therefore, I am used to it.

Someone said that my coaching is a combination of Milan's defensive discipline and the Dutch propensity for attacking football, and I think that is a fair description.

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

The most important thing in Guardiola's theory is to play football, and this always stays the same. The basic idea is always the same, but different opponents offer different space which you can use to play in.

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.

I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played.

You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.

I think we've got a lot players in the squad who are more suited to European football at the moment.

Scottish football doesn't suit me perfectly, how I want to play football.

Barcelona have a unique approach to the game based on specific types of footballers playing together as one.

Spalletti made a difference for me. He gives great importance to the details and, at minimum, wants the goalkeeper to know how to play with the ball at his feet.

Pep's Barcelona was spectacular. They had a collective style based on players of talent, which sought control and sought to dominate all over the pitch.

I like the Klopp mentality but at the same time, I like the Pep culture about football because always we need intensity with and without the ball.

Arsenal's style of play is so smooth and easy and I hope I can adapt to their style quickly.

Football is open; it is not only keeping possession of the ball and making more passes.

I think Sassuolo are a serious club who play great football, keeping the ball, and are almost Spanish in style.

Guardiola has helped me so when I receive the ball, I have space.

Cruyff's idea was, quite literally, to play football - nothing more, nothing less. His idea of how football should be played was based not on controlling the opponent, but on the ball and the game.

The game in Spain is more about technique and about getting more touches on the ball. That's why I like it so much.

Manchester United are always a team that try to play football, try to play football from the back.

My style suits Barcelona's style of play.

Against a team who are tight inside their area, you look to find combinations, the center with the wings or with shots from outside the box.

Everyone wants to play like Spurs. We want to play attractive football, get the ball forward, and create chances with good possession.