Glenn Murray Quotes

I don't want Kylian to play like Neymar and keep the ball. Kylian is incredibly dangerous in the final move, and I want him to stay that way.

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 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.

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

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.

In the Premier League you need creative players to open games up.

I don't have any secrets. I know my style of football and sometimes it's pretty simple.

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

The formula to beat the press is simple; it's the execution that's tough. If you have the quality to do so, you pass your way through it. And if you don't, you just boot it over the top. And then it becomes a game of winning 'second balls'.

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

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

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.

People always see the goals, and for me, strikers are not only about scoring goals.

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.

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

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.

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.

For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.

I don't want just pure roll out of the back four. I want productive mixed play... how many ways can you affect a game?

To score goals, you need to receive the ball in advantageous positions.

Luis Enrique has a clear idea, and the team has understood it perfectly. He asks us to press high up the pitch, to counter quickly when the opposition attacks and try to maximise the space between the lines with the speed we have.

I love to see goals and attacking play; I want us to be entertaining. But it's no good if you're shipping goals.

United's history was built on attacking football, which does not always mean that the team kept clean sheets or did not concede chances.

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.