Dele Alli Quotes

I see differences in how I like to work with young players and how I like to give young players a chance maybe more than English managers.

Pochettino's a great manager, and he puts a lot of trust in young English players.

Fulham trust young players.

Coming back to Tottenham, you feel confident with these players and the manager - the way he talks to you and wants you to play.

Arsene Wenger gives youngsters opportunities, and if he thinks that you're good enough, he'll play you.

There are not too many coaches who trust in young guys.

I know myself that I am a manager who really gives young players a chance when they deserve it.

I think the 20-year-old me from that time, if I could have been managed under Jurgen Klopp, I'd have benefitted.

Who wants to go to a team that doesn't play players when they are young? You can't see yourself playing for that team.

It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.

Giving youth a chance is part of our philosophy, part of our DNA.

Louis van Gaal trusted me; I played a lot of games.

Bryan Gray at Preston gave me a chance, even though Joe Royle and Ian Rush were being linked with the job. He taught me an awful lot about structuring the job and encouraged me to invest in young players.

As a coach you're able to have better relationships with the players because you're not picking the team.

With Zidane he had a lot of relationships with the players, a father-son relationship. Like a friend. Solari does the same, he is being fair to everyone.

I believe you have to take care of the kids from the youth team, the ones coming through, and people like Butragueno know how to do that.

From my youth team all the way through, I was encouraged to play that way by Keith Hill when I was at Barnsley, and then Roberto Martinez at Everton, through to Gareth Southgate when he was in charge of the England Under-21s.

I'm really excited by this opportunity to continue helping develop and work with some of the great young players we have coming through in the first-team environment and to work alongside Unai and his coaching team to help Arsenal win trophies.

You're always loath to take a player off of his ability.

I have faith in the players, who have paid me back on the pitch. I have brought in young players because they have a lot of potential. I'm the only one who decides, and I take decisions based on sporting reasons.

Our philosophy is to give the young players a chance for the future because they are our future.

I always get saddled as a player's coach, and I'm happy about that.

If I can be a role model, or if I can maybe make another manager play a young player coming through rather than buy a player, that's incredible.

If a young player feels comfortable in a team then they will flourish and be who they want to be. It's less about patronising them and more about trusting them.

It was a great experience under Van Gaal. He gave you the confidence to go and play.