Mohamed Salah Quotes

I am a striker or at least a playmaker behind the front man, certainly not a wide man. But with Rome and Milan, I was only playing on the wings.

I'm usually a No. 10, and the thing I most enjoy is helping my team-mates and creating goal-scoring chances for them.

I can score the basketball, but I think I can pass pretty well or I can make the correct pass. I'm not the type of guy who's just going to throw the ball inbounds to a guy who's wide open. I can make the right pass.

A forward always has to help the team, either with assists or goals.

I am not a player who goes on mazy runs - I like to defend. I like to do a job for the team.

Sometimes when you play on the wing it gets a bit isolated and you can't help as much. But if you play a bit more central I can get the ball a lot more and help a lot more.

If there's a shot on, I like to take the opportunity as well, and I like passing the ball - which is one of the reasons I came to Arsenal. But I'm a player that likes to come up with an end product - whether that's a goal, an assist, or helping the team to get good results.

I have never made a secret that I prefer to play centrally, it is where I feel I can get most goals from. At the same time, though, I also understand that you need to make sacrifices for the team.

The Messi of the early years was a phenomenon, but he always wanted to finish off the move. Now he goes past one, two, or three players and is happy to give an assist to a team-mate - it makes him more dangerous and more difficult to stop than ever before.

I bring a lot to a team. I bring immediate impact. As far as my skillset, I can attack defenders in multiple ways and get my teammates involved.

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.

I want to be one of those players like Jason Kidd, who is always in tune with the game and sees several plays ahead.

Obviously, I try to play the game in the way that I can help the team. I know I play a little bit more defensively now, more in the role as a team player, but I think I'm doing really well in that.

Sterling is a player that did very well at Liverpool. He is very fast, too, and he is able to create good chances and is always ready to attack and help the team with his speed.

Even Cristiano Ronaldo has developed from a selfish goalscorer into someone who likes to pass the ball.

I need to keep improving tactically, defensively and offensively for the last pass, the last shot.

I don't know the stats but with Mesut in the team, you are always going to get at least three chances a game from him. He always provides an excellent pass or something, a good move or play that leads to a goal, or almost leads to a goal.

I'm not some person who wants to be treated as a superstar and won't go out and help the team.

I think off the wing and just behind the striker are probably the two go-to positions, so to speak. I'm comfortable with playing both.

It is my job to score goals but that is only one part of the team.

I can play at left-back and I can help the team at times. But everyone knows I am not a left-back.

Defending is not only done by the defenders, just as attacking is not only down to the forwards.

Whenever I have the opportunity to come on, I try to do my best for the coach, and I try to help the team.

Nowadays midfielders definitely have to be complete players - you can't just be a destroyer, you have to build play too.

Sometimes you just square the ball, and somebody else shoots, but some assists are so nice, and the passing is very important. We creators have a thing with the attackers.