Alan Smith

I know, if I am playing well, I can be as good as anyone, and I want to show people who write you off and forget about you.

You can take a sidewards step in the Premier League, go to a team in the Championship or come to a team in League One.

In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

I will never forget how I have been treated here by the fans, the club and the owners, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to finish my career as a Manchester City player.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.