There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.

Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.

As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.

I liked football a lot, too, but basketball clearly is my first love.

You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football?

Football is more verbal in Holland, but there is a different approach in England.

I wouldn't take any of my injuries back; I feel like I'm stronger as an athlete because of all those setbacks.