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Thierry Henry

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5031 total appearances

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Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Chelsea back to winning ways

You have journalists voting sometimes for player, best player, you have players voting.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Chelsea back to winning ways

And if you ask any individual player who has been one of the most consistent or the best striker in the league recently, Kenny's coming along obviously as we all know, they will all go Aguero.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Chelsea back to winning ways

But if you name

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Chelsea back to winning ways

If you ask them to name one of the best players recently or maybe during that season and they had to vote, they don't put Aguero.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Chelsea back to winning ways

When usually the striker gets the little age on votes.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Chelsea back to winning ways

But somehow he doesn't when all the numbers are showing us that the guy is a winner, a great goal scorer.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Chelsea back to winning ways

And by the way, like I always say, he put a stamp on it.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Chelsea back to winning ways

He won the league.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Chelsea back to winning ways

They were not goals for the sake of scoring goals, although Dzeko came along, Tevez was there, but he won the league with those goals.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Chelsea back to winning ways

What he does ever so well there, Jamie, is to put his body in front of Smalling.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Chelsea back to winning ways

He goes in front of Smalling, so that makes it always awkward for him.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Chelsea back to winning ways

First and foremost, it's kind of a weird one at the beginning because... So, for example, if I take it to some of the players that started early at 17, sometimes you don't get the development that you should get at an early age because you were that good or you got a chance to play because some people were missing so you got called into the first team and suddenly...

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Chelsea back to winning ways

First game you score, second game you score, and you have to learn your trade while you're playing with the first team.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Chelsea back to winning ways

So that's very, very difficult.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Chelsea back to winning ways

But having said that, one of the most important things for me is to play.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Chelsea back to winning ways

You have to play, wherever it is.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Chelsea back to winning ways

If it's a reserve, you can't be on the bench sometimes sitting and not playing games and missing games, missing learning about the game, stopping that momentum.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Chelsea back to winning ways

For example, for me, an example is Rashford.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Chelsea back to winning ways

Michael Owen had the opportunity to back up what he did the year before because he played and he played and he played and he played.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Chelsea back to winning ways

I can give you other examples of other players.