Club Status Quotes

You don't want to play one year in the Champions' League and go out. You don't then establish yourself as a big club.

Arsenal will always remain a large club.

Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more.

Many, many of the teams respect Chelsea. Chelsea is a big club. It doesn't matter the position of the table: the respect is always there.

I don't expect to see them in the top six but I think of all the teams that have come up in previous seasons, I think Manchester City are the biggest club.

Arsenal have class. I remember when I was at Spurs, the Arsenal players would arrive for matches in their navy blazers with the gold gun emblem sewn into their pockets and grey slacks. We couldn’t match their ground with that beautiful main entrance, marble halls and spiral staircase. Even in 1961 when we won the Double, we were never as big a club as Arsenal.

At the end of the day, West Ham are a Premier League football club and that's all that matters.

Madrid is Madrid. There's nothing more to say. It's the biggest team in the world.

Madrid are the greatest club in the world and a cut above Bayern.

I don't have doubts that Everton is a big club.

When I arrived at Atletico, at that point they were not so strong.

I have huge respect for Porto, a great club that's always in the hunt for titles, but they aren't Real Madrid, one of the biggest clubs in the world.

Arsenal remains a big club, but the building of Emirates Stadium changed a lot of things.

The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they're going to be like the dodo bird. Extinct.

I think Tottenham is in a very good place.

It is not so easy to turn yourself into one of the big clubs in the Premier League and also the Champions League.

I want to aspire to titles. Liverpool will always be a big club, but we are not at the level of Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, or Arsenal.