Alan was a great help throughout and instrumental in my decision, |
Alfie [Thomas] will be captain, he's a brilliant captain, but it was great standing in for him. |
All the Newcastle fans need to know is that I will be giving everything for their cause now, |
But we have all grown up in the Premiership and we always used to talk about that while we were in Spain. |
David Beckham and Jonathan Woodgate were trying to persuade me to stay at Real, but in the end I had to come home. |
dovetail with each other really well. |
During my four days off there have been two big signings confirmed by the club and I can understand why this has resulted in speculation about my future, |
Every one of his strengths is totally opposite to my strengths, ... My game is not Wayne Rooney's. My strengths aren't coming off people and linking play up. My strength is seeing opportunities, knowing where a ball is going to go, sniffing out a chance, and when I get that chance, obviously scoring. |
Everybody knows that we are a better team than that, |
For all I care, he is better off herding goats! |
Fortunately I am a mentally strong person and believe I will learn from the experience and continue to improve as a player and person because of it |
God help me if I didn't do that because if I'd played 10 games and only scored one or two goals, then I really would be feeling low. |
Half the teams going to the World Cup are going to have a different manager for the next competition. |
He [Hansen] developed a lot of young guys like myself. He blooded us and gave us our chance, |
He even offered to give up his number nine shirt but I have declined. Number 10 will do for me. |