Hugo Lloris Quotes

I would prefer to play for and against an attacking team, but I am now used to playing against defensive teams.

Manchester United are always a team that try to play football, try to play football from the back.

It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.

I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options.

The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs - Real Madrid and Barcelona.

I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.

I know Roy Hodgson very well; he rarely changes tactically.

I want the ball for 90 minutes. When I don't have the ball, I go high pressing because I want the ball.

Any coach in my era will reference or look at Guardiola's teams. If you look at the style of play, he has had a huge influence on football. And he has innovated it again.

As I see it, Seedorf and I are coaches who handle the concept of a more proactive game.

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.

When you play the top sides you cannot afford to be as open as 4-4-2 can leave you. Consequently teams adapt their formation.

When we talk about Arsene Wenger, I like the fact that he focuses 80 percent about the style of play he wants for his team and not taking so much consideration into the other team.

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.

We have to cut out some of our mistakes, but the main thing in English football is controlling the second ball. Without that, you cannot survive.

The Swedish team plays very differently from Arsenal. There is more freedom with Arsenal and they play a passing game.

In the Premier League you need creative players to open games up.

I learned a lot from Arsene Wenger, especially his tactical systems and how to plan things game to game, week to week and month to month.

I like to create chances, to shoot when I play farther forward, but I also like playing deeper, as you have more time on the ball.

It was lucky I came from City; I'd say their philosophy is quite similar. Barcelona are a lot more advanced because they are the ones who created it, but they have a history of members of staff at Manchester City who worked here.

There is no Benitez 'method.' We try to be more solid in defense without losing the quality in attack.

Andre Villas-Boas wasn't the ideal coach for me. He bought Gylfi Sigurdsson and then told me he would be his new No.10.

I prefer getting a lot of the ball.

The most important thing in Guardiola's theory is to play football, and this always stays the same. The basic idea is always the same, but different opponents offer different space which you can use to play in.

It is always tough, always difficult playing against Klopp's teams.