Intelligent Player Quotes

Sadio Mane is a world-class player. He is almost perfect. He moves very fast, controls the ball well and is very intelligent in his movements.

I love Forlan. He runs a lot, shoots with both feet, puts pressure on and he is intelligent and fast.

Xabi Alonso is a very, very intelligent and experienced player with an enormous personality.

When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it's easy to escape because you know what they're going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it's much more difficult.

Usually, the most intelligent player is a midfielder.

Ibrahimovic is a very intelligent player and there are very few strikers like him in world football.

Messi always makes the right decision, whether it's a pass or a finish. He's a little genius.

Padoin is proving himself to be a great professional. He's tactically intelligent, and it's tough to play in front of the defense.

Lahm is the most intelligent player I have ever trained in my career

When I used to play against Bayern, Xabi Alonso always used to give me a really hard time. He was so experienced... he made me suffer. The way he'd keep switching play just meant that you could never stop running. He was very intelligent.

I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.

I had a meeting with Umar Akmal and discussed exactly where I thought he was. We are looking at the skillset that he brings to the Pakistan team. Obviously, he is a very intelligent player but he knows that he has to conform. He knows that he has got to pass the fitness standards that are required of him.

It is one of my biggest regrets that Niall Quinn was not here during my time... I felt he was an intelligent player. It would have been a good combination with Thierry Henry. What I like with Quinn is if you look at the player who played next to him, he always scored 40 goals because he had a hand for his head and he just put the ball where you were. He was a team player. A top-class player makes other players look good and he had that player.