> “I think I’ve become a different player in a lot of people’s eyes because I always felt in England, people respected me because I was fast and I pressed but they never actually respected the quality and the IQ that I played with,” he told ITV Sport.
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> “Only the players I played with seem to ever notice that. I think now that I’m at Barcelona and I play a different style, those qualities are highlighted much more and people actually starting to take notice that I’m not just quick.
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> “I think in England it was never really respected. People just see me as really quick and really aggressive. Whereas in Spain I think they really appreciate my IQ, quality, because in Barcelona if you’re not technical, if you’re not smart, you’re going to stand out like a sore thumb.
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> “That was kind of what I wanted if I’m honest. I wanted to leave the Premier League. I wanted a different experience. I felt that I had more than what people thought of me and I wanted to show that on the world’s biggest stage so going abroad was very important for me.”