For a big club, you can accept that the team does not win the league because it is in transition, but you cannot afford to slip out of the Champions League spot.
I enjoy working, and I enjoy working every day - and it is for that reason that I don't so much like the idea of working with an international squad. To have every day on the pitch is important to me.
Do you think that a Franck Ribery can always expect to play? No. When he is not on form, he will not play.
I don't like it if I'm not part of the starting 11.
It's a must to continue getting positive results and to give playing time to as many players as possible. This way we also administrate our energy levels.
Football never stops, and that's why you need a big squad.
I think Jurgen Klopp is doing a great job at Liveprool. The style of play is the opposite of Guardiola.
I wasn't getting a lot of game-time at Liverpool, you guys could see that. I was just playing cup games and stuff like that.
I think to progress in major tournaments and to be at your best, you need a big squad, and you need to rotate it.
It's not easy when you lose Flamini, Hleb, Senderos, Gilberto, and Lehmann. When you lose all these players - and Flamini, for me, was the best player last year - it's really difficult to compete against Chelsea, Man United, or Liverpool.
English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.
Of course it is going to be difficult for any player to get in the Chelsea side no matter who they are.
It's always difficult when you have had a game in midweek to get to a final.
It is very difficult when I have to choose a first 11 because I understand the feelings that players gave when players are on the bench; it is very difficult.
Any strengthening of the squad, in a League and Champions League which demands so much, is a good thing because you need many top quality players.
Sometimes you have to manage, and you have to sell two or three players who aren't playing many games.
I have experience and have been in Europe many times, so I know squad rotation is necessary to make everyone in the side stronger.
I think playing international football burns players out, but I was in and out of the England squad so never felt that.
I want to widen the pool. In the past, England players have maybe had the comfort of knowing what the next squad is going to be before it's announced, but I'd like there to be more uncertainty. More competition for places means the standard goes up.
There was only a little spell at Wigan, when I first signed there, when I wasn't in the team every week.
In the first season with Sarri I only played six games as a starter.
