I prefer playing in a 4-3-3.

I haven't eaten junk food since I was 11, but I'm not teetotal: I have a drink maybe once a month.

I'm not really a defensive midfielder.

Once I'm at the training ground, I'm focused, preparing for the next game.

When you are injured - and injured for a while - it is hard. You have to go to the training ground and watch everyone go out to play.

It is important to start winning international tournaments early and get that mentality into you. Then, hopefully, you can take it on to the world stage.

I've had a bond with West Ham since growing up as a kid, going to Upton Park, looking up to the players.

Teams want the best players. If the best players come through your academy, you can play.

It's every kid's dream to represent their country at a World Cup.

You can help build momentum in training by keeping the pace and intensity high. Make things happen in training, and then you can transfer that onto the pitch.

If you've lived in England for five years, for me, it doesn't make you English.

To put on an England top is a dream.

I think every manager is the same. Three days before the Premier League starts, every manager is selfish that way. They want the players fit and ready.

Football never stops, and that's why you need a big squad.

My perfect formation would be 4-3-3 with one holding and then the two going forward. I would be one of the ones going forward.

When you go to the training ground day after day, there's times when you don't want to do it, especially when you see all the boys go out to training.

The aim every season is to challenge for the top four and try to win a trophy.

To be playing against people like Xavi and Iniesta is brilliant.

Loyalty is a big part of football, and it shows if you are a real man or not.

A player can have all the quality and everything it takes to play for a big-six team or to play for the best teams in the world but then sometimes it happens and it doesn't work out. It's not because of the player or the club, sometimes it's just the environment, it's the wrong timing.

When it comes to the game they both focus on different things. Pep is maybe more about positions, dominating the ball while Jurgen is maybe more like winning the ball and trying to score goals as quick as possible with high intensity.

If you are a great manager you have to have a great personality.

I can imagine it's not attractive for the spectators when we play teams with 10 players around their own box, just defending and hoping for a set-piece or throw-in, anything.

I like to have the ball first of all and to pass, these short passes to create the space at the right moment.