Rayan Cherki: “Football for me is like art. It’s like music, it’s like drawing. …

Rayan Cherki: “Football for me is like art. It’s like music, it’s like drawing. If we don’t play with pleasure, you can’t play better, you can’t show what you want. And me, when I go on the pitch, I just want two things: The children, the dad, the mum, to forget for 90 minutes life.
“A lot of people don’t have my chance, and when I go on the pitch, it’s to show my style and [let people] say, ‘Oh my god I forgot my life for 90 minutes!’ The problems disappear. ‘This style is just him, just Rayan Cherki, and not everybody’…” [via ManCity]