Petr Cech Quotes

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

Someone said that my coaching is a combination of Milan's defensive discipline and the Dutch propensity for attacking football, and I think that is a fair description.

The most important thing in Guardiola's theory is to play football, and this always stays the same. The basic idea is always the same, but different opponents offer different space which you can use to play in.

I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played.

I like the idea of playing with a bit more tactical freedom, either in a deeper role or supporting the strikers more often.

We've got to make sure we have players that can break teams down because there's no space in behind; we need to problem-solve in a different way.

I'd say my main quality is keeping the ball and my passing.

It's a different playing style than at Monaco; there were two of us in midfield there, and here at Liverpool, there's three.

I think I've shown I have the defensive discipline to play deep as the No.6 and start the build ups with my passing. I can also play higher up the pitch and make a difference in the opposition area. Being able to do both has helped me to play so many games.

Manchester United are always a team that try to play football, try to play football from the back.

Playing 4-5-1, I could have all the liberty in the world - it was complicated to express myself.

I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options.

You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.

The lower you go down the levels, the more players think they need to hang on to the ball to prove how talented they are, but that's not football.

Scottish football doesn't suit me perfectly, how I want to play football.

Barcelona have a unique approach to the game based on specific types of footballers playing together as one.

At Barcelona, it wasn't about winning all the time; it was first about how to win.

Pep's Barcelona was spectacular. They had a collective style based on players of talent, which sought control and sought to dominate all over the pitch.

Any coach in my era will reference or look at Guardiola's teams. If you look at the style of play, he has had a huge influence on football. And he has innovated it again.

I started in a 4-3-3 formation at Ajax, playing in left midfield. There, you need to be just as involved defensively as you are going forward. You attack and you defend, and that allows you to be a complete player.

When you are playing with a few players in the pocket, it doesn't leave me isolated. I have a bit more space to work and be higher up the pitch.

I think that Sarri's formation and playing with a midfield three have been fundamental for me.

I like to be in contact with the ball, have possession, to play.

The little bit of my Brazilian side in Azzurri is perhaps to play more with the ball on the ground and have the tranquility to hold the ball. The idea is to have more control of the game.