Michael Laudrup Quotes

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

Statistics can be so misleading. It is funny, though, how often at the moment you see one team had 60 per cent of the ball but still lost.

The important thing for me is we want to keep the ball, we want to have the ball because we are Arsenal football club.

The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.

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

Obviously, culturally, England's style of play is a lot more direct and physical. In Spain, they're a lot more patient, and they have the ball a lot more.

To score goals, you need to receive the ball in advantageous positions.

I was always a little bit compared to Jurgen because my core of working is working against the ball.

My teams have always been dominant about having the ball but having the ball to create opportunities. That's always been the clear way of my work.

Pogba was our Usain Bolt - he allowed us to play in a certain way.

I think time of possession is overrated, unless you are scoring.

When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team...It's death by football.

If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball

If you do an outside spin with the ball, it's more difficult to control it, so I try to pass it in a way that allows them to take the ball quicker in their path. That way, they may have more of an advantage to score or create themselves.

I like teams to control and dominate the ball so the players are hungry for the ball.

Losing the ball is not going to help your team, so I am trying to change that.

For me, playing simply is dribbling. For me, playing one or two touches is harder. Playing simply is the most difficult thing.

When we went into 2015, we had our way of playing, and we were fairly rigid in what we were doing.

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.

It is impossible to do it for the whole game, but when you have the ball for most of the game and have players like Samir Nasri, David Silva, Yaya Toure, and Raheem Sterling, they keep the ball so well.

In the midfield, I'm not the most comfortable playing with my back to the goal, and in the midfield you find that ball a lot.

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.

Dominating the midfield is the most important thing in modern football. To succeed, you have to be good at everything.

Every footballer enjoys having the ball at their feet. There are times in training you find yourself without the ball. I enjoy that side of it as well. If we can spend more time working with the ball then everyone will enjoy it.

When Messi has the ball centrally, with time, he has so many options to hurt you.