Top 55 Jan Vertonghen Quotes

Obviously the leagues are different. The Premier League is much more competitive than the Dutch league.

My favourite thing, what I want of course, is to play in the Champions League with Tottenham.

Ajax want to get as much as they can for me, while Spurs want to pay as little as possible.

Becoming champion is definitely one of the goals I want to achieve.

I want to play in a cup final.

Adama Traore and Diogo Jota are incredibly fast and difficult to stop.

Losing is a tough blow to take.

Even in the Belgium team, we get the respect. Teams are not happy when they have to face us.

It took me five years to get my first trophy with Ajax but it feels like you have to win a trophy to win more and then they follow. It’s just the belief you can win it.

We want to dominate, we want to entertain the crowd and play in a very positive way.

I’m addicted – not video games, but board games.

I chose Spurs and I think it’s turned out well. I felt I was joining a great team, with great plans and the personal chats I had with people at Spurs were great.

Obviously you have to trust the VAR to make the right decision.

I had a great time at Spurs and made lots of friends, and learned lots of things – perhaps even more off the pitch than on the pitch from my family at Spurs, and I will miss everyone.

I have never fought in my life but I can be very angry, especially on the pitch.

I am convinced that if you win one trophy, then the rest will follow.

I can be quite fiery. I was worse when I was younger but even now, when there is a bad decision from… it doesn’t matter who, I sometimes want to scream.

I want to play in Europe, as the national team is important for me.

It was my task to train hard and respect my team-mates all the time I wasn’t playing or was on the bench, so I hope I did that.

I don’t want to regret anything in my career.

The position as a striker is the hardest one in the Premier League. If you look at some top, top strikers, even they struggle to score goals here.

With all strikers, it’s just about needing a bit of confidence.

I love London.

I always eat the same thing on game day, or I read a book to calm myself.

I want to play in Europe and learn another language. Spain and Italy are options.

The most important thing when I joined Ajax was to combine it with school.

It’s flattering to be linked with clubs, the rumours give me confidence but I just try to do my best every game.

The interest of a great club like Barcelona is certainly flattering. That is confirmation that I am doing a good job.

When I won my first trophy, it was just a feeling of ‘we want more.’

You need to be 100% focused all match long against Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

When you start at Ajax and you’re six or seven years old, you’re in the best team in the league – always. And you have to dominate, at home and away from home. A draw is never enough. A win is never enough.

Football is always a very emotional game, and VAR is changing that a bit.

Januzaj is someone a bit like Origi, there’s no pressure and he plays like he’s on the street.

I chose Spurs because they gave me a good feeling. I spoke to Daniel Levy and Rafael van der Vaart.

Arsenal wanted me to be a controller in the midfield, an Emmanuel Petit-type.

I am who I am, and I try to influence the team in my own way, especially with my performances on the pitch. If possible, I try to help the team in the dressing room as well by offering encouragement where needed.

I was never the best player in the teams I played for. I always needed time for development.

I can play at left-back and I can help the team at times. But everyone knows I am not a left-back.

To play for a team in the Premier League would be amazing and that’s what I am going for.

Of course you have Messi and Ronaldo. And then you’ve got a lot of players who are very close to each other and I think Gareth Bale is one of them, like at the level of the best teams in the world. He could play for every team in the world. For me he’s a world class player.

I had doubts about going to Ajax because I don’t like moving.

I learned how to defend myself at the OSB, not physically but with words.

Sometimes it’s better if you can play in only one position. You see that with other players. These guys specialise in one position and they can completely concentrate.

Six years at Ajax and eight years at Tottenham, that reflects the way I want to be as a footballer, I like stability and that is what Benfica offered me and that was very important for me.

If I play, even at left-back, I do my best.

I think Tottenham is in a very good place.

I’m not going to say the Dutch league is naive but they all play to win. In the Premier League, you have teams with a different idea.

It’s one of my goals to play in the best leagues and against the best players.

Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie are two of the best strikers in the league and the reason I came to the Premier League was to play against people like them.

I want to play as many games as possible.

When you don’t play, you realise how important it is and it’s extremely important for me.

When I was six, I joined an amateur club called VK Tielrode in Belgium where I lived.

I’m a big fan of the Premier League, but you can’t say no when a club like Milan come knocking.

I’m not a guy who wants to push himself into the spotlight or stand out from the crowd.

I’ve played with some great players and against some great players, and Sonny is special, he’s so humble and I think that you underestimate that because of the work he puts in, then his quality, outstanding left foot, right foot.