I want to score 15-20 goals a season in the Premier League. I want to be up there doing that. I know that I can do that.
If you’re lucky enough to get into a Premier League or Championship team straight away, well done to you, but I feel really grateful for the experience that I had at the lower end.
When I left the club, I said in an interview that my chapter with Borussia Dortmund was not over. I just wanted to realize my dream of playing in the Premier League.
If you are the coach of Bayern Munich, Barcelona or Real Madrid, the chances to win something are huge. When you go to the Premier League, you have six, seven, eight teams who are fighting to win.
With Chelsea, the job was this: move up to the top, get into Europe. And I did that – fourth place in the Premier League and then into the Champions League, the season before Abramovich and all the money arrived.
Gilberto is a top guy and his advice means a lot to me. He played in the same position as I do and he won the Premier League, so I look to him for inspiration, I listen to what he has to say and I take on board what he tells me.
Has there ever been a Premier League star splitting opinion more than Mesut Ozil?
In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.
People may think that I just want to manage in the Premier League but I’m prepared to go to a non-league club, and if they can’t pay me a salary just pay me a win bonus. I’m up for that.
The disappointment of getting relegated from the Premier League is an awful time for anybody as a footballer.
In my first year, I won the Premier League, and two cups after that, so I learned a lot from my experience in England, and I think it was all positive.
Cardiff is one of the smallest Premier League venues, but it’s a good atmosphere and everything is so close. Obviously me being Welsh is even better.
I want to improve myself; I believe I can be a big player in the Premier League.
I love London! But the thing I love the most is the Premier League.
English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don’t have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.
City are playing for first place in the Premier League, and that is what I want.
The Premier League is the place to be.
To win the Premier League proves you are a top team.
Of course the Premier League is the most difficult league in the world because it’s so even. I think you can’t really compare other leagues with the Premier League. In the Premier League, every team can beat every team, and in football, that’s something where you can have surprises.
I want to play at the highest possible level – the Premier League.
I want to score more than 30 goals, but I would prefer to score 15 or 20 and get the Premier League or one big trophy.
It’s very difficult in the Premier League to win three, four, five games in a row.
I’m sure I can work the Premier League, maybe my style of play is better suited to the Premier League than in the Championship.
You don’t manage more than 900 games, mostly in the top half of the Premier League, if you haven’t got something that enables you to cope with pressure.
I love watching the Premier League.
I have been following the Premier League very closely because once you have been a footballer you have an affinity with the game.
That was how I felt at non-league. I never looked at it then and said, ‘I want to be a Premier League manager one day’. I just wanted to do a good job and see where it could take me.
There are a lot of big players and a lot of big teams, but I don’t know if I’ll get the opportunity to play in the Premier League.
Playing in the Premier League, in front of such crowds and on such perfect pitches, is amazing. I am so lucky.
I’ve got a lot of respect for Claude Puel because he brought me to Leicester and to the Premier League and played me in most of the games. I have a lot of respect on that front.
In the Premier League, you always have to be at your best. You get forced to get the best out of yourself.
I’ve loved my time at Sunderland. It’s benefited me so much, as I’ve just gained invaluable experience playing week-in, week-out in the Premier League and mixing it with the big boys.
In the Premier League a little half a second can punish you and you just have to be focused for all 90 or 95 minutes, whatever it may be.
For Premier League games, you get people coming from all over, paying big money to get into the games as part of a weekend away.
I’ve had the four best seasons of my career at Leicester and have loved every moment. I feel immense pride to have been a part of what we have achieved during my time at the club, culminating in becoming Premier League champions.
The Premier League is in my heart.
Sometimes in the Premier League, you are in a game where you can’t play nice football because you just wouldn’t win it.
The Premier League is the toughest in the world probably, there’s not going to be an easy game. It is what I’ve dreamt of, so when I step onto that pitch I’m just playing how I want to play, playing with freedom and that is what the manager wants.
The Premier League has a lot of intensity, a lot of physicality.
I would like to return to the Premier League but I think if you put that question to more or less every manager in the world, then they would like to do it as well.
I used to watch Arsenal a lot but not so much now because my channel lost the rights to show Premier League football. But of course, I know the squad and I wish all the best to the guys. And of course I am still a Gooner and I think I will always support that club.
I think the Premier League is the best league in the world.
At the top end of the Premier League, you have to be ruthless. Even just to get in the top four is hard.
Although the Premier League is tough because players have good physiques and can switch swiftly in offense and defense, it can be overcome after adapting to the league for a few months.
Everyone has their own background and some managers are Premier League footballers, international footballers, some of them find themselves getting jobs.
I have great respect for the Premier League, for the teams, and the great players there.
Of course the Premier League has the most top level players in the world. But the Chinese guys are very good.
It hasn’t always been a Premier League ride for Crystal Palace supporters. They’re there to support us through the hard times.
In the Premier League, I think if you win your first five games, you’re in the fight, because here in every game, you can lose or drop points.
For me, the Premier League is the most difficult championship in the world, and I am so happy here.
The Premier League is a very interesting league and I can imagine it could be a big aim to be a big manager in the Premier League one day like Jurgen Klopp who is very successful.
I’ve played for England, played in the Olympics and made my Premier League debut.
I feel like German football is a lot more aggressive and faster. I’ve never played in the Premier League, so I couldn’t say what it was like. But going from youth football, I would say it’s a lot faster and lot more physical.
In the Premier League, you never know who is going to win or who will be champions. It is always a surprise.
The wages that are being paid in the Premier League are very tempting. It would be hypocrisy to deny that.
My goal is to get my name known here in the Premier League.
I really want to make Charlton a stable side in the Premier League but I’d be lying if I said England wasn’t in the back of my mind.
The first Premier League season is always tough for anyone.
The aim for the future is always to win titles, become champions of the Premier League, and more.
I remember, in 2008, and we won the Champions League and the Premier League, and we were having our photos taken with the trophies, and someone said to me, ‘Patrice, you don’t look happy.’ I said, ‘It’s because we are missing the FA Cup.’
I’m absolutely enjoying the Premier League, as you can imagine. I knew it was going to be tough. It’s the best league in the world and you are up against players who have been in it for years so they know it inside out.
The billions watching and following the Premier League don’t tune in to see you in training. They want to know what you can do in a match.
In the Premier League, you can’t play against anyone if you don’t play at a high pace.
In the Premier League every team is very good. That’s why it’s very difficult to reach that level.
At the end of the day, West Ham are a Premier League football club and that’s all that matters.
I don’t watch too much football at home. I only watch the Premier League.
There is hope to catch up, as long as Leeds get to the Premier League. I feel with a project an idea and people of quality we can close the gap on clubs with a different budget.
I chose Chelsea because I spoke with the manager here and when I did that, I felt the capacity of the manager and that is why I made my decision. And of course I like Premier League football and that is why I decided to stay in the Premier League.
