Aymeric Laporte Quotes

I respect Bielsa a lot. For me, he is a special coach. I think the best coaches in the world work in different things, and a lot of coaches, we cannot train like Bielsa. It's difficult to train like Bielsa. But every coach can learn from different coaches. But with Bielsa, I think all coaches learn something from him.

Roy Hodgson destroyed me. He made me play in the centre of midfield.

Training with Guardiola is good. He's always talking to each player, trying to give them a vision of the style of football he wants to play.

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.

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.

You can learn a lot from Pep Guardiola. From pre-season to the match itself. He has a vision of the game that is impressive.

Eddie Howe was the most tactical manager I have worked under.

In Italy, the coaches are very attentive to the details. They really study things, and that is a big difference here. They look at your movement, your positioning. They study you and work out how to stop you.

When I arrived at Bayern he asked me: 'How are you? Are you ready to learn how to play football?' Before, I thought the coach's job was just to set up the team. However, with Guardiola it's something different. He is addicted to football and because of that he is a phenomenon.

Pochettino is a terrific manager if you look at the way his teams play.

I think England has to change the way they are teaching football because football is changing, and the method isn't changing as much.

I would say Pep Guardiola's No. 1 quality is that he sees the technical and tactical aspect of a game really fast.

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

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?'

Every coach has his own philosophy.

People don't remember that Sid Gillman was my coach. He was an old crotchety guy, but he was the first one to basically say, 'You can't just run around'... I remember, he literally tied my feet up.

I grew up an Urban Meyer fan. I loved the way he coached, loved the way he did things.

Arsene Wenger is a good coach. He has authority, and straight away, I can see he helps players with small things to make them better.

With Luis Enrique, I never expected he would become a coach. He was an intuition player; he didn't speak with me about tactics.

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.

Every manager has their own way of approaching games.

Mourinho is a coach who likes more the ball practice, works the ball possession and makes short games.

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

I've been playing football for a while, but Guardiola really made me a better player. I was 29 when I started working with him, so I wasn't very young, but if you see the steps I made thanks to him, it shows you what he is capable of doing. Guardiola didn't just put me on the flanks but in other positions as well.

Louis Van Gaal is a great coach. He has inspired a lot of players to give their best, shown them how to play.