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At Palace, I feel like a first-team player, and I have got the opportunity to play every week.

When you play at City with top players, you don't have a guaranteed place in the starting eleven.

I don't like it if I'm not part of the starting 11.

I suppose I should have realised that the very fact I was still playing for United at 38 years old was a sign that there was not enough pressure on us senior players from those coming into the side.

It's Chelsea and you will always have competition for places here.

You go into training camp and you fight for jobs and often times things work themselves out. Like players just take the job, they play so well, they win it, and makes it easier on the coach to decide who is the guy that gets those minutes.

Maybe if I had signed for Chelsea I'd just have been sitting on the bench and what is the point in that?

If you are not performing consistently at a club like Arsenal, then there are other players ready to take the opportunity - which I learned the tough way.

In the U.S. system, too often the best player on an under-17 team will be treated like a 'star' - not having to work for the ball, being the focus of the offense at all times, etc. - at a time when they should be having to fight tooth and nail for their spot.

Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places.

One reason I don't want to play in England again is because we don't have any personalities.

I had long conversations with Wenger before I joined Real, and that's how I got to know about Arsenal and the way that they like to sign talented players who can move the ball well.

Speaking to the coach has been my number-one criterion at every club I've played for to find out what he expects from me, how he will make me improve, and that he'll play me.

In any footballer's head there comes a point where he recognises that he needs to be playing more games.

At Arsenal you are replaceable so quickly as a player, I don't want to stand in someone's way.

It's no good if you are at a so-called best team, but you sit on a bench.

I've got to think through all of those things - competition for places, players who need match minutes, and keeping the unity of the squad.

Like every player, I want to start more matches rather than be used as a substitute.

A player's mind, body and soul have to be right to get the best out of them, and if a player no longer wants to be at a club then the club should try and get the best deal they can and let the player move on.

I always try to perform, and not because you have players on the bench or on the pitch that can play in your position.

They say that when it comes to the depth chart, it can change any day and that we dictate how the depth chart goes. If one person has a great day, he might be going with the 'ones.' If a person slips up a little bit, he might be going with the 'twos' and 'threes.'

I started this job in 1995, and I felt the same pressure in my first day, with my first team, Reggiana, in the Second Division, as I feel now. Nothing has changed, but what changes are the number of games, especially for top teams. For this reason, the work has pressure. But only this.

Obviously, every player wants to keep their spot in the starting line-up, and I'm the same.

Like every player, I want to start more matches.

Clearly, any player would want to go to Real Madrid, but I think if there wouldn't be all the space that one needs there, then it wouldn't be the best move.