Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie are two of the best strikers in the league and the reason I came to the Premier League was to play against people like them.
When you're growing up and thinking about being a footballer, you want to make as many caps and play as many games as you can.
The big teams are about the Champions League.
You have to give 100 percent in the Champions League, as you're up against the biggest teams.
We have to be playing near-perfect football to go and win a World Cup.
The target is to be competitive, enjoy our football, make a great team performance, and to show the face of Tottenham.
I mean no offence, but we know that the French league is not the same as the Spanish or English league, where there's more difficulty.
It is always nice to play for the bigger teams, contesting titles and Champions League rather than relegation.
St James' Park was always, in the course of my career, a great place to play football, for the wildness of the crowd and the no-holds-barred football that both my team, Manchester United, and Newcastle would play.
I think, increasingly, people will define success as staying in the League, being a stable Premier League club that treats its fans to good football every year.
I'm a great believer in the lower leagues, the pyramid system, but there is mileage in having B-teams in England with young players playing competitively.
Playing Bayern is never easy.
A move to England? I understand why a lot of players are moving there. It's one of the best leagues in the world. But the same goes for the Bundesliga.
I've played a lot of football in my life. I know the tempo and speed of the game.
When it comes to Brazil there are no friendlies.
To play in the Champions League is everyone's dream, and I would like to do so. I won't deny it.
FA Cup or league - we look to win every game.
English football pleases me a lot. It's the most keenly contested.
We're playing real football here, and doing what it takes to win games.
Arsenal-Chelsea games can go either way. They are always competitive and physical and really good games technically.
The experience of being a Premier League player playing every week is just massive.
I'm sure I can work the Premier League, maybe my style of play is better suited to the Premier League than in the Championship.
My head has just been all about wanting to play regular football in the Premier League.
The big difference between league football in England and Spain is that more teams compete here. In Spain, it is usually only two teams going for the title, which is not necessarily a bad thing because you get great matches between the two, but I think the English league is better for being more competitive.
Aston Villa had been in touch and they'd gone into the Premier League so I knew I could play in the Premier League just like that.
