Chris Hughton Quotes

When you compare Arsenal and City, it's not the same. With City, I'm playing in a better team.

Pep Guardiola saw me as a central player in his system, which my style of play fit into perfectly.

We're trying to win football games, and whoever we feel like gives us the best chance is who's going to play behind center.

In the Premier League, the most important thing is not to give the team at the top of the table reasons to keep winning game after game.

The simplest way to win in the National Football League is to knock out the starting quarterback. You know, throughout the years, history has proven if your number one quarterback goes down, your chances for success become very limited.

I'm a forward, but I can't be the only forward at a club. Over the years, the clubs who've won titles have had several strikers.

If you're talking about English football very few teams play 4-4-2 now: it's either 4-4-1-1, 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1, they are the three major systems played throughout the Premier League.

From a footballer's point of view, if you want to choose a football club, then Arsenal is right up there with the best.

It's true I play a little deeper for Real Madrid. I can push a little further forward for Colombia.

Many players in the French squad play in the Premier League or have played in the Premier League, so I knew about the level.

I think, from our point of view, my opinion is that La Liga, the tempo and physicality is completely different to the Premier League. Technically, some of the teams there are absolutely tip top.

Iceland won't change. No matter who they play, they're 4-4-2.

Jurgen Klopp does have a winning mentality; he is hungry for titles.

Just got to win games. You've just got to find ways to win games.

The directors told me they were going to recruit good players with whom I could play decent football. Marko Marin, Oscar and me, we like to have the ball at our feet. Juan Mata likes the ball; so does Ramires.

It's true that Coutinho played on the centre because sometimes Messi likes playing on the right side. If that happens, we have to readjust a bit.

It's really amazing what Pep Guardiola has done at Man City.

Arsene Wenger is an ambitious manager, and he knows deep in his heart that he needs five world-class players to compete among the best in Europe.

Arsenal play attractive football, and I enjoy that. I think you could see against the MLS side that this team has a lot of quality, and we'll give our all to show that on the pitch.

If you have a top winger, you are going to win a lot of games.

It's not easy when you lose Flamini, Hleb, Senderos, Gilberto, and Lehmann. When you lose all these players - and Flamini, for me, was the best player last year - it's really difficult to compete against Chelsea, Man United, or Liverpool.

The Premier league is better with Mourinho.

Chelsea are one of the great teams in Europe and Mourinho is one of the best coaches in the world.

This is football, so you need to be clever to understand the moment and win games.

The differences between the top teams in Euro 2000 are so minimal that I think you have to be very clever in defence and stop your opponents getting opportunities.