"I know I'm not tall but, if you
speak to people at Ajax they'll tell you I was the best header there," Vermaelen revealed in The Telegraph.
"They don't care about how big I am, whenever we were defending a corner I always had to take the tallest guy.
"I'm not that tall but you have to jump so that's how I try and compensate. I never trained for it. It's just timing, I guess."
Vermaelen then praised his current team-mates, claiming that training against Francesc Fabregas can be a laborious challenge.
"Playing and training with so many big stars, the beginning was a bit like a dream.
"I think Fabregas is
brilliant," he said. "If you play against him in the little training games – eight
against eight – it is almost impossible to win."
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