Kevin De Bruyne: "When I arrived for preseason [at Chelsea], the vibe was good. I started two of the first four games of the season, and I thought I played ok Not brilliant, but pretty good. After that, that was it. I was on the bench and I never really got a chance again."
Kevin De Bruyne: "During the transfer window in 2015 Man City, PSG and Bayern were all interested in me. It was an extremely stressful time. We were just starting our family and we had no idea whether the transfer would go through, or where we’d be living."
Kevin De Bruyne: "Personally, I wanted to go to City. I had Vinny Kompany texting me, telling me all about the project, saying that I would love it. And I just felt really good about the club."
Kevin De Bruyne: "Pep and I share a similar mentality. To be fair, he’s even more intense about football than I am. He’s so, so stressed all the time. However much mental stress we are under as players"
Kevin De Bruyne: "The first meeting I ever had with Pep, he sat me down and he said, “Kevin, listen. You can be — easily — a top five player in the world. Top five. Easily.”
Kevin De Bruyne: "In the end, this project at City is about more than winning. It’s about a certain way of playing and an overall philosophy."
Kevin De Bruyne: "This is why we [Man City players] get up every morning, why we obsess over so much detail in our work, why we try to push ourselves to the limits.
Kevin De Bruyne: "So whether or not we [Man City] achieve the impossible, this wave we’ve been on it should be appreciated by anyone who truly loves football."
Kevin De Bruyne: "And I guess I’m a bit of a different kind of person, in that way, expressing myself mostly through football. But that’s my story."