Hakim Ziyech

“I think I learned a lot from my past, it's made me become what I am now at this moment.”

“Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, they are two big talents, they have already proved it in the past what they did for their clubs before.”

“I'm always the type of guy that always believes in myself, I always work hard in training.”

“Get between the lines, find space, between the lines with the one or two touches. Especially in that position you have a lot of options because is the defender coming out, yes or no? If he is not coming you can turn around and find the striker or the left winger or the right winger in space. You have a lot of options.”

“In the beginning when I came to Ajax it was like good and bad, in the way of playing, so it is a process of building.”

“If you look at the World Cup, every team that is playing must be considered a threat. If you are not a decent side then you don't qualify.”

“People always tell me the Premier League is a tough competition. Of course I know it is but I think they always said, 'you're physically not ready' and stuff like that.”

“It doesn't matter who you are, if you have three defenders of course it is hard to find your space or whatever it is.”

“People who never speak to me do not experience me on a daily basis but talk about how I am put together. I call those people clowns.”

“I watched the games Chelsea, Arsenal and Man Utd played and players like Didier Drogba, Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp and David Beckham, you name them.”

“I speak my mind, I demand explanations, I want a reason. That's why I am perhaps a difficult guy to work with. But that's how I am.”

“Competition makes every player better.”

“If I trust someone, I also blindly trust that person. Otherwise you cannot touch me, your opinion does not matter to me at all.”

“Galatasaray is over for me. I don't want to play here anymore.”

“When I was a kid in Dronten, I played my first games when I was five-years-old and within one season a bigger club approached me to play for them.”

“Chelsea is a very big and nice club.”

“It's always about believing in yourself. Of course you have some points where some things worry you, but you have to be mentally stronger.”

“I didn't want it to finish as it has now, but I will still cherish the memories. I left something at Ajax.”

“It means a lot to have qualified for the World Cup.”

“In Champions League you never know what can happen.”