Gianfranco Zola

“I went from being a player who had received just a few yellow cards in his career to a red card in a World Cup. It was a devastating moment for me. It was my first game in the World Cup, so I was excited and thankful for the opportunity. Being sent off was a big blow.”

“If you want to learn how to paint, go to Caravaggio.”

“It is a pleasure for whoever loves football to enjoy watching Hazard.”

“You don't have to just work on your game, you have to work on yourself. This is the last step to becoming a big, big player.”

“I'm sure there are some people who still think I'm too much of a nice guy to be a manager but I'm certain that's not an issue.”

“I was very tired when I left West Ham, but that's my character really. I gave everything. It can be bad, that, because you need to be at your best when you manage a football team. The players take it on board and see how you are.”

“I have always followed Scottish football quite closely.”

“Because of players like myself, Sergio Aguero, Kevin De Bruyne and so many others, the game in England is at such a high level.”

“People think because I'm a nice person I'm a weak person. But I don't think being nice means you don't know how to take tough decisions.”

“Every manager, when things don't go well, they feel bad about it. That, unfortunately, is our job.”

“I stopped playing football. And life wasn't easy without football.”

“Chelsea is a very demanding club. They need to be in the Champions League and they need to win trophies because that is what the club has been doing for some time.”

“With Jorginho it depends what type of football you want to play. If you want to play possession where you have the ball all the time and you play a lot of passes, there are not many as good as him around. If you ask Jorginho to cover 50 metres of pitch in width and get all the balls back, it's going to be difficult.”

“Some leaders speak a lot in the dressing room, on the field and others do it with actions contributing important things in games, deciding big games.”

“The Premier League is the biggest on the planet and the challenge is you have to be very good to make it in England.”

“It is not true that Sarri did not defend, indeed all of his work starts from there. But it's a different way to defend, in a much more advanced area of the pitch.”

“Pep is an extraordinary coach.”

“There is a common mistake people make. They say, 'We need to play the young English boys.' Of course, but only if they are good. How can you measure that? If they are playing with good players and if they can fit into the level of the good players. That's why, because of the level of the Premier League, England has so many talented players.”

“A big club should have big characters and big men. The more strength you have in the dressing-room the better.”

“Chelsea is in my heart and I was so proud to achieve so much for the club.”