I love Chelsea still. I'm not frustrated; it was a great experience.
— Andre Schurrle
Poldi can do much more than just play on the wing.
I had a good time at Chelsea and was accepted in the team, so it's difficult to explain why I left. My performances were good as well, but there was a time in my second season when I felt I didn't have the manager's trust any more and I didn't play many matches from the start.
In the end, not only the team, but the players themselves benefit from having to prove their worth time and time again, too.
When you speak about United, you speak about a big club and you know they have great players.
Germany are always among the favourites at major tournaments.
Winning is what matters. It's the most important thing.
Being a substitute can be an advantage. I know this situation from the national team. And I am also good as a player coming from the bench.
I definitely did not fail at Chelsea. I always had my chance, scored important goals in the first season. At the end I just wanted the transfer, although Jose Mourinho wanted me to stay.
Always give everything for the team, always chase the ball, never accept defeat.
The coach is the one who eventually decides who makes the starting XI.
I think that the stiff competition for places is a positive thing.
Wolfsburg might be a smaller club when you look at reputations and I thought about it long and hard. I could have stayed at Chelsea. Mourinho told me that I would get my chance. You have to make a decision, though, and in the end I only wanted to play football again.
There's no point in playing well and losing.
When you come to a World Cup with Germany you are expected to win it.
In England you get fitness from playing.
I am Andre Schurrle and I don't compare myself to others.
I don't know why Mourinho didn't trust me.
I always do my utmost both in training and during matches.
When I joined Leverkusen, they were regarded as a quiet club.
I have been a Chelsea fan ever since I was a kid and I felt well there right until the last day.
You can play perfect football, lots of one-touch stuff, and you lose. But that's not what you want, you want to win.
I think I showed my qualities and the way I can play.
