Quotes About Midfielder

I was very proud to win the PFA trophy because usually an attacker or a midfielder wins it.

Xavi is one of the best players in the history of football.

The most important thing is to be a midfielder first, not scoring goals. You have to make the game, make an assist for the team, and if you can score, it's a plus for the team.

Pogba is a midfielder who has all the qualities. When you are a midfielder you normally have some special qualities but he has everything.

I think the first attacker has the ball, starts from the back, you can see everything, and you have to play with the feel of a midfielder, not a goalkeeper.

Cesc is a great player, one of the best midfielders and he creates chances. For a forward, he is a great player to have.

Pogba is a great player.

I like playing just outside of my own penalty box, the player who receives the ball and organises the game.

Kante is a good player. For me, it is good because he speaks French. We know he is a fantastic player; he runs a lot and works for the team.

I started out at youth level as a holding midfielder.

Ozil obviously has a lot of quality, but so does Sami Khedira as holding midfielder.

I defend and track my runners but, if there's another big asset you need as a midfielder, it's to score goals. I scored goals in the reserves and the youth team but since I've got into the first team I've lost that a little bit.

Pirlo is an irreplaceable player.

I think my ideal position is to join the attack a bit more like I did at Shakhtar. I played more as a box-to-box midfielder, so I played a little bit further forward.

At school, I was always a central midfielder from a young age. Then, when I joined Villa at 16, the pre-season didn't go too well, so they looked at me as a centre-half.

If you want to speak about scoring goals, you should judge every midfielder the same way.

When I first arrived at Napoli, I was the ball boy, which meant that I got to watch as the legends trained. Then, once I joined the youth team as a young teenager, I was a midfielder just like Tardelli.

I don't have that intuition, of changing a defender for a midfielder, for example. I'm incompetent on that matter, to put a player on the pitch and hope that he magically finds a solution.

In the English 4-4-2 you have to change your mentality from a winger to a left midfielder, having to help your full-back.

Growing up I've been playing as an attacking midfielder, more central in the midfield. I wouldn't say if I'm most comfortable there but that's where I grew up playing.

Ozil is a great player. He's the brain of the German national team.

I first learnt to play football as a striker and it was only when I joined City that I learnt how to become a midfielder thanks to the help I received from the staff at the Academy.

a passer of the ball positioned in front of the defence who could provide the platform from which every Barcelona attack would begin.

Thirdly – and crucial for Pep's position as the midfielder in front of the back four – he had to dispatch the ball to the wingers to make the pitch bigger, wider, to create spaces all over the pitch.