Jack Wilshere Quotes

If I was to play on the left, I'd rather play there if there was three in midfield.

I've always preferred a 4-3-3. It's a more fluid and dynamic system, and I think it plays to my strengths better.

I came from Ajax where you play 4-3-3 and as a winger they didn't want you to defend.

The way Guardiola plays suits me. It enables me to get into space in attacking positions.

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.

It is possible to stop Messi. Teams do it when he plays for Argentina. But the Barcelona Messi is different.

The only gambling I do is on a Saturday afternoon when I might put on two wingers or two strikers.

When you're at a club like Liverpool, it's always about what you can do with the ball.

In my period at Chelsea, I was sometimes the one who switched sides because we were playing with two left-footed guys on the wings with myself and Damian Duff.

I am in my best position in the middle of the 4-2-3-1.

With Andy Cole up front they can score at any time. We'll be watching him very closely.

Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield.

That's the nicest part of football; you can't do everything to stop a player.

I like to study everything: the way to be dangerous when you are attacking; what the players should do when you don't have the ball; where they should be. The tactics you tell the players to follow come from all this study.

In England, you might have a possession game of six v. six, and it's like headless chickens: people running around everywhere just trying to keep the ball and be strong in tackles. But in Spain, you always stay in your position. You're still in your shape for every drill.

Every striker has their way of playing and their strengths and a different team behind them. That is very important.

I have to play with discipline in midfield.

In Rome, I was already trying to help in shaping the game, but the style was a little bit different to what we do at Liverpool.

I am a striker or at least a playmaker behind the front man, certainly not a wide man. But with Rome and Milan, I was only playing on the wings.

It's important for a striker to play in a position which is natural for him.

If you insist on playing Jorginho, who is neat and tidy but not a goal threat, you have to have goal threats on either side of him.

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

We take more risks at United than the majority of teams but the manager wants us to play.