Bojan Krkic Quotes

When I signed for Barca, I knew their playing style was suited to my game.

I don't like the Italian approach. I don't want to be involved in that kind of football.

People too often - because it's an easy, lazy tag - dwell on my style of football.

Dortmund's style of football really suits me.

When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.

I'm an admirer of Guardiola's work.

I have always said that the BVB style is exactly how I want to play football.

Perhaps my style of play is not something that is seen in England.

Power is the main difference; it's more powerful in England. Referees are less strict than in France, teams like to play low and in counter-attack, and defenders in general are stronger than in France.

I prefer the 4-2-3-1 formation and stick to it but have my own interpretations.

Often in football a game is really balanced and one small detail will make the difference between winning and losing. We try to find the detail that makes the difference for us.

The Bernabeu faithful doesn't want a similar style to Barca. They want a more direct style of football.

The defenders in Italy are stronger, and that makes me better. Serie A is played in a different way to other leagues.

Everybody in the league has someone up in the box, or guys on the sidelines trying to steal calls. It's just like baseball. If you've got guys who can do, you do it.

I'd love to play with Ajax against Barcelona.

Arsenal's style of play is so smooth and easy and I hope I can adapt to their style quickly.

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.

I think, from our point of view, my opinion is that La Liga, the tempo and physicality is completely different to the Premier League. Technically, some of the teams there are absolutely tip top.

Iceland won't change. No matter who they play, they're 4-4-2.

In every country, you play a different style of football. Sometimes if it's really tactical, like it is in Spain, it seems like it slows down the tempo, but it's not really the case.

Pep Guardiola saw me as a central player in his system, which my style of play fit into perfectly.

At Brazil, we play as a collective, something that also happens in Barcelona, but not at Real Madrid.

For the last decade, the last 50 years, Barcelona dominate football matches. I love the way they play.

The tactical way of Pep is the most incredible I have ever seen. When he was at Barcelona, that was their best team, I think.

It took time at Everton to build a team so that when we did go to United or Arsenal or Liverpool, we went with a good chance of getting a result.