#pascal-jansen

#pascal-jansen

A little, yes: that was a difficult time for me, but if I'm here now, it means everything worked out.

I had been at [Manchester] City for three years, so I was aware of all of our best young talent, but I was also aware of all the young players of, say, [born in] 2002 right the way up to 2007/8. So I knew all of the best talent, and I had a pretty strong idea that the players at Cardiff were as good as a lot of the best young talent in Europe.

Yes, we are planning for the future and we've been talking for several months. We're analysing the year with great clarity.

Our goal is to win every game. Our goal is to win the Nations League. Our goal is to qualify for the European Championship [in 2028], Hagi said at a press conference in Bucharest.

Vincent Kompany was at Tegernsee [last summer], he drove out there with Christoph Freund, and said: 'Uli, we need Xavi Simons'. I had put an apple pie on the table for the meeting and replied: 'Vincent, you can have another piece of the apple pie, but you're not getting Xavi. We want you to play the young players'.

Ngumoha was handed just his fourth senior start, yet he played like someone far more experienced, driving relentlessly at defenders, injecting tempo into Liverpool's attack, and offering the kind of directness and unpredictability supporters have long craved.

Image source, Getty Images "Football obsessive." Ask people who know Steve Holland well how they would describe the former Chelsea and England coach and the same phrase is repeated. "Football is his life," a source told BBC Sport. "Whether it's Champions League, thoughts on players or something else, he has a hell of a brain when it comes to football detail."

Feyenoord will train in Belgium this week instead of their home in Rotterdam so signing Raheem Sterling can work with his new team-mates. England forward Sterling joined Feyenoord last week after leaving Chelsea by mutual consent but he can not train or play in the Netherlands until he is granted a work permit. Manager Robin van Persie says he has moved his side's training to Tubize - which is around 137km from Rotterdam - to allow the 31-year-old to gel with his new team-mates as quickly as possible.