There is no need to hide the fact that the Champions League is very important to us. We want the Scudetto, Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana, but the Champions League is very important.
The Champions League title is incredibly important for me, as important as the Bundesliga title.
That’s why it’s hardest to win a Premier League instead of a Champions League – because it’s over 38 games. You can’t play well in every game, but it’s about grinding out results.
Our objectives are everything – the Champions League, La Liga Santander and the cup.
We want to play on the highest level and the Champions League, other than the Premier League for us, is the highest level.
To win the Champions League is huge for everyone.
My favourite thing, what I want of course, is to play in the Champions League with Tottenham.
Anything like having a good season at home for the club, or going as far as you can and having a great Champions League, has its repercussions when it comes to the Balon D’Or winner.
It’s very difficult to reach World Cup and Champions League finals and I want to experience those things again.
I had a lot of emotional days at Chelsea, some that did not really end well, especially in the Champions League.
As a team, you always need to show something extra in the Champions League.
I really want to lift the Champions League trophy one day.
Many substitutes have won the Euros, World Cup or Champions League without contributing anything.
At Bayern, if you don’t win the Champions League, it’s always a criticism because we have a great team, but most of the people forget that there are other great teams, and it’s not that we aren’t special.
Real Madrid have that special connection with Europe and Champions League matches. The fans transmit the importance to us and when you play a Champions League game, you get goosebumps, there is no better feeling in the world than that.
Every team has to understand what their ambitions are. If their ambitions are to fight for the title or win the Champions League, you must buy expensive players. Otherwise, you continue to stay in your level. It’s simple.
I always say it must not be an obsession to win the Champions League. It’s a very important title and beautiful to do it. But you must not try to win the Champions League and lose focus on the Premier League.
To arrive and try to fight for the Champions League, to try to fight to be the best in the world, you need time.
When I moved from Metz to Monaco, we reached an advanced stage in the Champions League, and we played against Real Madrid. It was one of most beautiful days of my life because I was lucky enough to get a signed shirt from the football legend Zinedine Zidane.
When you’re a kid your dream is to be decisive in a Champions League final, and I managed to do that.
The Champions League without Milan is not the Champions League.
The Champions League is the one thing missing from my career. When I look at the history of the competition and the people that have taken part, the top, top players have all won it. For many, it is why they have been regarded as top players.
I scored against Arsenal in the Champions League. That’s something I will never forget. But I’m one of those people who seems to remember the bad times more than the good. Just the way I am.
But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we’re enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.
Of course I want to score more goals in the Champions League. But I never want to compare myself or be compared to Lionel Messi.
I want to play in the Premier League, the Champions League, and I want to continue playing for England. If I’m going to do that, I have to play for my club and put in good performances for my club because there are other English midfielders who are doing that in the Premier League.
I’m not aware of any plans for a European Super League, but the Champions League is a Super League.
The Champions League is on another level. The games feel different.
Champions League football in the Premier League – you’re talking about the top, big, massive clubs, and it’s not something I think I’d get linked with.
I’d been at Everton for more than 11 years. We’d qualified for the Champions League, got to an FA Cup final. I’d been voted manager of the season three times.
I want to be the top scorer of the league, take Everton back to the Champions League, and reach the Brazilian national team.
It’s a good place for me, Wembley. In 1983, I played for Denmark when we beat England there 1-0, and in 1992, I played for Barcelona when we beat Sampdoria 1-0 in the Champions League final.
The Manchester City fans have their opinion on the Champions League. It is down to us, as players, to create the atmosphere in there and help the fans.
I am proud to have started in the Champions League.
It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.
I’m very happy to have already been welcomed into the LFC family, I’m a part of history having won the Champions League and hopefully we keep making history.
I enjoyed it very much, my first Champions League game.
When I was a child, I had it in my head to play in the Champions League and win it.
As a general rule I don’t have to play in the Champions League to be happy.
I came to Chelsea and it was ‘oh you can’t play Champions League, you can’t do this, you can’t do that’ and I proved them wrong.
There are always games where you play for important things, but the semifinal of the Champions League is a responsibility.
I want to leave PSG one day having won the Champions League. That’s my biggest dream.
It seems to be a big thing to people that a Scottish player is going to play in the Champions League final, but hopefully that will become a more regular thing.
I think I need another trophy on my list, and I know that Barca’s ambition is to win the Champions League. This is my goal, too.
The Champions League is such a tough competition.
I always think when you’re in the Champions League, as a player, as a fan now, you’re in that to come up against the biggest teams and the biggest names – that’s what you want.
