Reiss Nelson Quotes

Taking on a temporary coaching role at Manchester United is extremely exciting.

There has been a great list of players who cut their teeth in Europe.

I have the advantage of having worked with Messi and Mascherano at Barcelona.

I've been the captain of a Premier League club, and I've coached some of the best players in the world.

Playing at a club like Chelsea and being given the opportunity to play with the world-class players that we have means you can learn from them and improve your game.

I played for Barcelona, for Ajax, where it's important to develop and integrate young talent.

Every coach wants to train Manchester United; it's one of the biggest clubs in the world.

Tottenham is the club that first gave me my opportunity to play in one of the strongest leagues in the world.

You can see the players are world-class just by the way they pass the ball. Ozil, Sanchez, and Cazorla, for example, are huge personalities. Even though the club maybe spent more money on me, I can still learn a lot from them in any respect.

It is not my decision who plays in La Liga, the Champions League, or the Copa. In any case, I just do the best possible in each training session and in each game to be able to get a chance in La Liga.

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

When I first arrived at Napoli, I was the ball boy, which meant that I got to watch as the legends trained. Then, once I joined the youth team as a young teenager, I was a midfielder just like Tardelli.

Little details about young footballers catch your eye when you have been around a big club for a long time. At first, it can be minor things, like the way certain young players stand out from the group when the academy lads cross paths with the senior team on their way to training in the morning.

Certainly when you're surrounded by top-class players, like Cesc Fabregas, Eden Hazard, all of them, you only can make progress in a situation like that.

Me being at Coventry, instead of a big Premier League club, probably helped me develop. You don't get put in the academy system, playing Under-18s and Under-23s.

At City it is very hard to get into that first team.

It's hard to compare the faith of Gareth Southgate and Roy Hodgson and my lack of chances at Chelsea because it's such a big club.

I want to be a footballer. I don't want to do anything else.

I was a promising keeper as a kid and, at 15 and 16, was on the books of Crewe Alexandra.

I would love to become the national team coach. I am aware that it is a tough job, but I spent 15 years with Italy. In my opinion, I have the right experience for this role and I know the environment very well too.

For the fans, for the club, for the young players, I want to show there is a pathway at Fulham for young players to go through in the first team.

Liverpool give young players a good opportunity.

I have got to a level where I feel I needed to make the jump to Chelsea and push myself and get myself to a better level and playing with world-class players here is only going to help.

I had the good luck to have the experience of training with fantastic football players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Ozil, Modric, and I also played for Real Madrid B. That was a fantastic experience because it was my first international experience as a football player and taught me a lot as a football player.

Barcelona and Real Madrid wingers, these are the big players at the big clubs and you have to watch them. They are at a top level. I'm not going to say they inspire me, but I take things from them.