Gael Clichy: Perform week-in-week-out

“All the best footballers constantly strive to improve their game no matter what level they’ve already reached or what they have achieved.

To be a top player you have to do it week in, week out and to do that you must always be looking at what you can do better.

I’m never satisfied with what I’ve done in the past in my career and I’m always looking to improve in every game and in every training session. Training is so important as the hard work you put in during the week hopefully reflects when you play in matches.

You can’t teach yourself to be quick, but you can always work on your speed by performing  drills and exercises on a regular basis.”

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Andrew Murray is an award-winning writer, columnist and editor, voted the Consumer Journalist of the Year at the 2015 PPA New Talent Awards. A fluent Spanish speaker and former semi-professional footballer, he was senior staff writer at FourFourTwo from 2012 to 2019, interviewing the biggest names in the game from Lionel Messi (twice), Neymar and Luis Suarez, to Sergio Aguero, Virgil van Dijk and Mo Salah for the cover, among others. He continues to write and edit for the brand on a regular basis, plus national newspapers, websites, the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and Premier League clubs. He is not a famous tennis player.