Gary Cahill Quotes

I think most young players who take off from the start are usually put in a situation where they are surrounded by good, veteran players.

For a young player, it's important to have people around you other than yourself. You're immature as an 18- or 19-year-old.

You don't buy experience at the pharmacy. You acquire it through games over time. Every player must go through that, but when the federation hired me, they told me they wanted new players and young players who will prepare for the future.

Young players are starting to come up as well and they will see me as one of the older, experienced ones.

As a player, I could have the ball in my hands; I could kind of dictate what happens. I'm still learning, a young coach with young players. Sometimes I'm going to see things. They're not going to see what I see. So it's being able to translate that and help them see what I'm seeing.

You cannot achieve your goal just with young players. We have to see them growing in a stable, mature squad.

I believe you have to take care of the kids from the youth team, the ones coming through, and people like Butragueno know how to do that.

I'm really excited by this opportunity to continue helping develop and work with some of the great young players we have coming through in the first-team environment and to work alongside Unai and his coaching team to help Arsenal win trophies.

The only way young players learn how to get better is by playing or get the experience is by playing and getting out there and doing it.

There are not too many coaches who trust in young guys.

I've always enjoyed the coaching side, working with young players, trying to improve them and to make them not only see football different but to see life differently.

My first target is not to win: it's to develop young players with our work. That was my first idea when I started as a coach, because with this work come results.

In Germany, young players are given more time, more patience. In England, they prefer to buy already-high-level players rather than spending some time building up a really talented young guy.

When I was playing for Chelsea and Arsenal, we had a young team but also experienced players. You still have space for the youngsters to play, they just have to be strong mentally to compete every week.

Coach Dunleavy has done a great job of humbling me, letting me go out there and make mistakes and I've got a great feel for the game right now.

That's the big thing for youngsters. When you go, you don't want a manager that's not going to have any trust in young players.

Jack Wilshere is a prime example of how things work. He went to Bolton and did really well, then he went back to Arsenal and really kicked on. It is something quite a few of the young boys look at and think, 'If he can do it, so can we.'

If I can be a role model, or if I can maybe make another manager play a young player coming through rather than buy a player, that's incredible.

Sometimes players just take a little while to develop.

You need young, hungry, developing players in your team, but you also need that experience to level things out and get hold of some of the youngsters when they need advice in certain areas of the pitch.

I would like to involve and love to work with young players.

A lot of kids, when they get to 18 or 19, they start getting flashy and forgetting about the real basics of being a professional footballer.

Hopefully I'll be a GM one day, or even a coach, teaching the game to the young guys.

As a young player, the more games you play and the more you work every day with good players, of course you will improve.

I learned so much during my time at United. Sharing a dressing room with Paul Scholes, Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Ruud van Nistelrooy, and Ryan Giggs at such a young age was an amazing experience. I didn't play as much as I would have liked, but it was a master's degree in development both as a player and a person.