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“In my heart, I wanted to stay. I always believed that I had what it takes to play for Arsenal, but these things are not always down to you.”
“Sometimes I listen to rap music, sometimes reggeaton sometimes African music. Really depends on the mood that I'm in.”
“Masculinity in the classical sense is not important to me, it's always about being the strongest. But the topic of 'New Masculinity' interests me a lot. For me, new masculinity means freedom, openness and respect for individual ways of life.”
“I want to help make Common Goal part of football.”
“Per has had a career that not many footballers can match. He is experienced enough to decide his own way forward. Since he's a good friend of mine I would of course be happy to play together with him.”
“Only when I was 12 years old was I allowed to join VfB Stuttgart.”
“I am really impressed with the way he plays. I regularly watch Hazard videos on YouTube.”
“I think every footballer aims for the Ballon D'Or.”
“Since I have played for the Germany youth teams, it is no question for me that I want to play for Germany by any means.”
“Yeah, I really like Thrillers by Harlem Cobin. I think they're really amazing, quite exciting.”
“Didier Drogba, for sure. He was my favourite player after Zinedine Zidane. A great striker.”
“I had hard times. English football is a bit tougher I would say in the youth than back in Germany, so you also have to adapt to that.”
“Dembele is much better than Mbappe.”
“It's hard to not change, to be honest. It's hard to remember who you are.”
“Maybe it's not all that bad that Bremen's a smaller city. There are more temptations in London than in Bremen.”
“Team sport is always more important than individual performance.”
“I'll never forget the first time I met Arsene Wenger. I was 16 years old. Just turned 16, actually.”
“Of course after having struggled a lot it was difficult to pick myself up.”
“To score seven goals away at Tottenham, I don't think this happens a lot!”
“One of the things my parents told me when I was young was that I had to always do more than everyone else because of the color of my skin. They told me so often that I got sick of hearing it, honestly. We were living in a small village outside Stuttgart and I didn't have any direct experience with racism growing up.”