Christen Press Quotes

I prefer playing in a 4-3-3.

I'm a coach who admires attacking football. I want my teams to look to win.

I know that Spurs are a team who like to play offensive football.

Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement.

The triangle is a foundation to an offense.

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

We have what we call a dictator offense. We dictate to defenses by making them do what we want them to do. And we do it by creating formations.

The way Guardiola plays suits me. It enables me to get into space in attacking positions.

If I was to play on the left, I'd rather play there if there was three in midfield.

Power is the main difference; it's more powerful in England. Referees are less strict than in France, teams like to play low and in counter-attack, and defenders in general are stronger than in France.

At Tottenham, I'm asked to take a lot of risks to keep maximum possession of the ball and build from the back.

If seven or eight players play offensively, then it's clear that the offensive force is greater than the defensive stability. That's what I often say internally.

To say we have to play a certain way, or try to, every game is great in theory, but depending what players you have got you have to play to their strengths and cover up their weaknesses.

The style is the same at all levels, which facilitates things: bring the ball out from the back, keep possession, work gaps to create chances. It's like that from the Under-15s all the way through. That's the Spanish way, and it has triumphed.

I think the Brazil system is similar to the one we use at Liverpool, with lots of movement, players open out wide, and quality midfielders who join the attack and score goals.

It's a scary thing when a team don't know who to match up to, whose night it's going to be on the offensive end.

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.

My perfect formation would be 4-3-3 with one holding and then the two going forward. I would be one of the ones going forward.

Guardiola and I have the same idea of football.

Whether a player rotates more or less depends on his form and his position. It's not the same for a center back as it is for a winger. Every player is different.

We cannot try to play in a manner that does not correspond to our players' characteristics.

The beginning of everything is our defensive organisation. The clean sheet is always the first objective that we have in the game. Always.

Why shouldn't Harry Kane take corners? If he happens to be the best striker of a ball in the team and gives you the best delivery, why shouldn't he do it?

I want to attack matchups on special teams.

The Spanish league is my favourite. The attacking mentality suits my style.