Gareth Southgate

Unless you're at a club long enough that can develop a philosophy of playing and recruiting players that fit that way of playing, then you have got to be adaptable.

If we want to be a top team, we can't get to 3-0 and suddenly decide not to play without the ball. We have to play with intelligence right through the game.

Our country has been through some difficult moments recently in terms of its unity. But sport can unite.

I expect all the players, even the younger ones, to show leadership in their own way.

My job is to allow people to dream. Make the impossible seem possible.

I am extremely proud to be appointed England manager. However, I am also conscious getting the job is one thing; now I want to do the job successfully.

When you're a leader and a manager, you have to make decisions which are right for your group to achieve the primary objective. Sometimes those decisions will be criticised.

Very often, you can go into one game and do really well, and then you have to find that level of performance so quickly again.

I've got to think through all of those things - competition for places, players who need match minutes, and keeping the unity of the squad.

For me, it is all about the bigger picture and what is right for England. I haven't enjoyed watching us play in all our games, but away in Germany, against Spain and Germany at home, I've enjoyed the performance.

I don't think the qualifying fixtures excite people. They're games against countries that we are expected to beat, rightly so, and then how many we score dictates whether it's a good performance or not.

In every position on the field, there's really strong competition.