In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.

I'm like everyone else: I want to play every game, but it's not possible.

As far as I see it you just can't give Messi space in the dangerous areas - we have to close him down, get tight and give him as little room as we can because if you don't, he can destroy you.

I like to go to America. That's where I go for most of my holidays.

There's a few ugly ones. Carlo is probably the best looking [on chelsea players]

I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.

I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate.