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.
At Tottenham, I'm asked to take a lot of risks to keep maximum possession of the ball and build from the back.
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.
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.
When I see a game on the television, and you see afterwards 'possession percentage 60-40,' that doesn't say anything for me because it could be that one team is playing the ball between the back four 120 times.
In short, with Sarri football is maths.
The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.
The important thing for me is we want to keep the ball, we want to have the ball because we are Arsenal football club.
I think time of possession is overrated, unless you are scoring.
When you play against a top side, you know they will have more possession, and they will be in more control, and you have to find one or two counterattacks.
I've never seen a Barca without control of the game. I've never seen a Barca that doesn't have the ball and lets the opposition attack all the time.
In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.
I'm always bragging, always laughing with my Spain team-mates at Barcelona, saying I'll take 30 per cent possession and two goals - a win is a win. It's football.
I love Sarri's philosophy. We play high, with a lot of possession in a technical way.
