Jermain Defoe

Like how much of an influence was he?

He was massive because I was lucky, obviously.

When I signed for West Ham, he was still there just before.

I think he went to Night in the Forest after that.

But obviously at that stage, I knew that it's the back end of his career.

He's not going to be there long.

So I was going to try and take as much from him as possible.

Obviously, as well as, like, obviously, Lamps was there, Rio, all that lot.

But, like, the Canyon was there.

It was brilliant with the young players.

But Wright, it was just, like, spoke about finishing movement.

He was sort of, like, holding me during training, so I'd tie my movement in a box.

So loads of stuff that, like, I took from Wright when I was 16 years old.

So we do like, we do crossing and finishing.

He would just say to me, he said, you're getting into the box too early.

Your movement's got, your timing's got to be better because obviously you're so eager to score goals.

You're getting into the box and sometimes the ball's coming behind you or like, so it's all about timing.

So he used to sort of like, just hold on to my training kit.

Especially back then when training kits were so baggy.

And you'd be wanting to move.