Aaron Ramsdale

“Some people like the pressure of being No. 1 and getting chased.”

“The bigger the pressure, the more I thrive.”

“It's very hard as a footballer to try and stay in one place for a long time, to try and create a home where you can have a family.”

“I wouldn't want my dad to try to gloss over anything or build me and the family up. We are what we are.”

“Everyone thinks football is easy, you're on the pitch for two or three hours and you go home, but it's just not like that. You're travelling 24/7, you're in the gym. But like I said it's not me moaning saying we want some sympathy, it's just the facts of the job.”

“I did a lot of growing up on loan, personally and mentally, which has helped me adapt to life in the Premier League.”

“If you give the armband it can go one of two ways, you either feel the pressure of the team and football club or it gives you a lift that it gives you an opportunity and lead from the front.”

“The fans pay their money and, either rightly or wrongly, they get to say anything they want to you when you are at a place of work. Sometimes you just can't take it or you don't want to take it, so you give them a bit back. But once I engage in conversation with them, I then have an overhanging pressure on me.”

“Bukayo is an Arsenal player and will be for a long time.”

“Every win is very big for us - away from home and at home.”

“If you lose a game of football that can't take over your whole life, otherwise I would have been sat in a house not seeing the outside world for a long period of my short career.”

“I won't name a name and I hope my agent doesn't see this as I might get in trouble, but normally if you don't get your move, you're rewarded with a new contract. It's not set in stone but that's normal, you saw it at Brentford with Ollie Watkins when he didn't move.”

“You never know what could happen next year.”

“It's me and ten other people on the pitch.”

“You never know you're ready until you're in that moment so in myself I am confident and if I am called upon I'd be delighted and ready to take it with both hands.”

“As you can probably tell on the pitch, I'm not the type of person who can sit still.”

“You never turn down a captaincy and I think I'd excel if I was given the armband, but that's down to the boss.”

“Maddison is a top free-kick taker.”

“With the Arsenal lads in the England squad, it helped me settle in quickly. Similarly, that also helped the other lads when they came on to the England side like when Emile Smith-Rowe made his debut. We look out for each other.”

“There was more freedom when I was down at the bottom playing against the bigger teams. I wouldn't say it was a 'free hit' but when you're playing against someone who's in and around you, it's a big-pressure game.”