Malcolm Jenkins Quotes

There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.

Guardiola has a way of playing; he has a system, and he sticks to that.

We're trying to win football games, and whoever we feel like gives us the best chance is who's going to play behind center.

I had to go step by step to get used to the training and to the system of Pep Guardiola.

It is possible to stop Messi. Teams do it when he plays for Argentina. But the Barcelona Messi is different.

You have to win on the ball.

What football means to an Italian coach is tactics, trying to control the game by following the ideas and systems of the manager.

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

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've always preferred a 4-3-3. It's a more fluid and dynamic system, and I think it plays to my strengths better.

Tactically, Italians are very strong. They are a lot into tactics: how to defend, when you lose the ball, where will you be?

I stay in the middle and my team-mates can go to attack.

We take more risks at United than the majority of teams but the manager wants us to play.

In football you need to look to make life difficult for the opponent.

If you're going to run a lot of plays, you better score a lot of points.

If I have an idea of football, and I am the manager, it doesn't make sense for the club to find players with a different profile.

I experienced how Pep Guardiola worked every day. He had football on his mind round the clock: 'What system does the opponent like to play? How do I want to set up my team, who do I want in which position?'

I was an attacking full-back but was told by Hope Powell to just sit back when we played U.S.A. in the 2007 World Cup. It's hard to rein yourself in, but the team comes first.

You buy the right players for the system that you believe will be successful.

Pass a lot, use some reverses and toss in a gadget play once in a while for the TV audience. None of that detracts from winning.

When you're at a club like Liverpool, it's always about what you can do with the ball.

Muller is part No. 7 and part No. 9, a second striker. But in Ancelotti's system, there is no room for that type of player.

Pep is a super coach! He is excellent. He is the best at analysing an opponent and the concept of a game. I don't know what impact he had on German football, but he left a mark on all of us at Bayern because of how he analysed and educated the players in each position and the way he taught us to play.

Players at the highest level have got high football intelligence, so they can adapt, but at the same time you need a structure and an idea of how you've got to play that system.

I like offensive, technical, and quick football - exactly in the style of Arsenal.