Folarin Balogun

I still have expectations of myself.

I would say I'm happy to be healthy, to be playing week in, week out, but definitely I want to achieve more.

A bit of both.

A bit of both.

In the beginning of the season, for me, I know how long a season is.

You have so many games, you're playing in three or four competitions, so you don't really even have the...

the time to kind of think about it.

But you know, I'm on social media like everybody else.

I was there, I was scrolling maybe yesterday and I saw like it's less than five months away now.

So when you see things like this, you know, you of course realise that it's coming close, but

I said before, you know, this is my first World Cup, you know, it's in my country, you know, so I'm just excited.

I'm just, you know, I don't know what to expect.

I'm speaking to the players, like, their experience of a World Cup and they just say, like, it's the most amazing feeling any footballer can have.

So I'm looking forward to it, but I can't even have any expectations because I don't know what to expect.

But, you know, at the same time,

The most important thing is to go into the World Cup in the right way.

If you have a great season, then it becomes easier.

If you're doubting yourself and you didn't achieve your goals, it's going to become harder.

We've been together for a while, as you said we're a young squad and I think when I first came it was a bit difficult because we didn't really have that consistency but I think now you're seeing with Pochettino we're starting to have a bit more consistency.

The last window was a strong performance against Uruguay and Paraguay.