Lothar Matthaus Quotes

The No.10 position is my favourite role.

At Newcastle, I was playing in the No 10 position but also in midfield as a left winger.

I play the number ten role but also off the side or deeper.

Trequartista is an important position in the team.

The best place for Cristiano is not out on the wings. The best for him is to play in every position.

In this system, I've always played in the position behind the striker. I also don't enjoy being classed as a striker - I don't see myself as one.

I'm a mix between a striker and a midfielder.

I would like to do what Cristiano has done: start wide and go into the middle as a No. 10 or 9.

I will aim to become a No. 10 who can score goals. Just like Lionel Messi does for Barcelona.

Mostly as a No 10. When I was really young, I played as a striker, but I grew a lot when I was 15 or 16.

I have been playing box-to-box more for Everton as a two, so I have felt comfortable in that position, but anywhere across the midfield I can play.

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

Mesut is a player who needs the pressure a little bit. He needs the pressure to perform. He is a great player. He is everything that you need in his position when he plays No. 10. He can play the pass and he can score.

If you want a left winger who plays simple, I'm not the good player.

Muller is part No. 7 and part No. 9, a second striker. But in Ancelotti's system, there is no room for that type of player.

I have been a big admirer of Coutinho, and he can be a very important player for Liverpool and Brazil.

My preference would be to play as a right winger, but I can also play as a striker.

I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.

I am a central midfielder, and that's where I like to be.

For me, Marouane Fellaini has been one of the best midfielders in the Premier League over the last few seasons. If he continues to improve at United, we’ll have a really good player on our hands.

Balotelli can play as a striker, as a winger.

It was a coach called Adailton Ladeira who first asked me to play as left-back in 1988. I was a left-winger, but our left-back was injured at Uniao Sao Joao, my first club, and he asked me to fill in. I said 'no problem,' and I've played there ever since.

At Rennes, I played more down the left wing, but also down the right and sometimes in midfield. At Dortmund, it was the same: I alternated wings. I don't have problems with the position I'll take up.

I know the importance of the number 10. In Brazil, the one who wears 10 constructs the attacks.