High Pressing Quotes

United are about attacking football, and everything else has to takes its place behind that.

Liverpool are known for this 'rock and roll' football. I think I've adapted well to this even if, as a player, I like to hold onto the ball longer.

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

I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back: with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.

It is always tough, always difficult playing against Klopp's teams.

If you look at Barcelona and the way they press high, or Bayern Munich, the way they press high... that's what makes them the best teams, because when they lose the ball, in the first three seconds, that's when they get the ball back, really, really high.

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

In a way, I feel there's a Carrick style of playing.

Maybe Klopp is the best manager in the world at creating teams who attack the back four with so many players, from almost anywhere on the pitch. They have an intensity with the ball and without the ball, and it is not easy to do that.

I try to play in one way all my career and here, with high pressing, but it is different in England. Many times the ball is more in the air than the grass, and I have to adapt.

Guardiola has a way of playing; he has a system, and he sticks to that.

Sarri's football can work in England.

The tactics in NWSL are so chaotic. It's so about physicality. It's both teams attacking with nine players, and it's just so open on the transitions, really fast-paced to the point of being out of control. The Damallsvenskan is a little extreme on the other side: it's so under control, there are 20 passes strung before you even go forward.

I think the Brazil system is similar to the one we use at Liverpool, with lots of movement, players open out wide, and quality midfielders who join the attack and score goals.

I think there was a time where the target man went out of fashion and it was all about the small and quick striker.

As I see it, Seedorf and I are coaches who handle the concept of a more proactive game.

There are a lot of things you can practise to unsettle teams that defend deep.

Mauricio Pochettino - he was my captain at PSG and I always knew he would become a manager. He has taken a lot of influence from Marcelo Bielsa, who was his coach with Argentina; they used to talk about things a lot, and now you can see that his teams are really aggressive, both when attacking and defending.

I want the ball for 90 minutes. When I don't have the ball, I go high pressing because I want the ball.

At United, we never used to change our style much away from home. The aim was always to score goals and dominate the match.

From what I saw in Spain and Germany most of the teams drop back and then they have all of the time to build up and have the movements. In the Premier League it is more physical and about set plays. It is more difficult.

With Arsene, he wanted us to play in the same way regardless of the opponents. The idea was that we could play in our way and beat anyone.

The top coaches want wide strikers who cut inside. They want playmaking midfielders who can play between the lines as well as perform their defensive duties.

I don't think City play a Brazilian style - it is more Spanish the way we play here.

I would prefer to play for and against an attacking team, but I am now used to playing against defensive teams.