He is a big player and the one we wanted. He's one of the most successful players of the last decade. |
He is one of the most versatile midfielders, a playmaker, a ball-winner with great stamina and huge charisma, |
He took a kick to his shin in training and he won't recover in time. It's too sore. |
He will take three or four weeks to recover so of course he will be fit for the World Cup. |
He would not have played as many games for Liverpool, Chelsea or Manchester United. |
Hopefully he will only be out for another two weeks but it could be three weeks. |
I always like to play with a settled team. If you see my teams I always play with the same if they are fit, |
I am not a liar! Irrespective of all the rights and wrongs of the situation, I don't think a manager should behave like that. |
I can't remember him picking up a ball. |
I did not even see it, I was watching Edgar Davids. The lad was going down then standing up and for me there's no problem. |
I feel we can still improve further. I don't think we've played to our potential, but you can't expect that yet. We have a lot of new faces and we are jelling together. |
I spoke to Frank last week, |
I still believe if we win four or five games out of the last nine we'll be fine. Now we're in fourth position we're going for it. |
I still have a bad taste about the first goal. In Europe there won't be a lot of linesmen giving this as a goal. You can't tell your defenders to keep a high line if they are given goals like this. |
I think if England play at the top of their game they are a better side (than Holland). But they didn't do that and we did. |