Gerard Deulofeu Quotes

I used to like playing No. 10 when I was younger, so I enjoy that role. But as I developed, I had to stay on the wing.

Pastore has so many qualities. Every pass he makes puts our forwards into position and we create a lot of opportunities thanks to him.

I want to become the ultimate centre forward. I want to be able to play on the left, on the right, and down the middle.

The hardest thing to coach is scoring goals and creativity.

It is very difficult to score goals in Italy.

Playing in midfield is a different ball game. You have to be on the half-turn all the time, have a different picture in your head of what is behind you and in front of you. Playing at right-back is different again.

I've got a defensive responsibility as well as trying to get goals and assists. I'm trying to do that.

Anybody who has played with Mesut will tell you how intelligent he is as a player. His vision is probably the best I have ever seen and that is why it is so important to have the right striker ahead of him.

When I play, I just try to score goals or assist someone - that's my job.

With Arsenal, I've been playing out wide, which is not me.

As footballers, we do get lazy sometimes and take the ball with our preferred foot to control it, but that split second of controlling it with your left foot and playing with your right can make all the difference in creating a chance or scoring a goal.

For me, David Silva is a fantastic player because his technique is incredible, and he understands when the right time to pass the ball is.

The Swedish team plays very differently from Arsenal. There is more freedom with Arsenal and they play a passing game.

Our style of play is increasingly based on possession of the ball. It suits me as a forward. We've got an attacking approach, and that means that I get a lot of chances; otherwise, I would have not been able to score so many goals.

With a line of six in the defence and then three in front of that, it's not always easy to find the spaces to score the goals.

In attack, I can play in every position.

For two or three years I played on the wing, when I went to Boulogne in 2011, I started playing in the middle as a central midfielder.

When you have a lot of ball possession, you have a lot of ball possession to create chances, not to play the ball around and not score.

I've grown up playing in central midfield more, and I think my natural game is about coming inside from wide.

I like to create chances, to shoot when I play farther forward, but I also like playing deeper, as you have more time on the ball.

People can say I've not scored enough goals, but you see the best strikers on the wing in a four-man midfield and see if they score goals. Nobody can really criticise my finishing because they don't really see me playing in a forward position too often.

Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.

Of course I am happy to play in any of the attacking roles, but for me, where I can score the most goals is down the middle.

Whatever position allows me to get touches in the attacking third, that's the position I like the most.

Before I signed for Liverpool, I was playing for Newcastle as a No. 10 - basically, I was always attacking. I didn't have to do much defensive work; I didn't play as the No. 6 or the No. 8.