I know that I can play in the middle, on the right, or up front.
I think a lot of people write off strikers like me, the true number 9 who hangs out at the top of the box. I mean, even I wanted to be a player like Romario as a kid.
We sometimes undervalue the importance of goalkeepers.
Before I went to Liverpool, I was a striker and then sometimes a No. 8 or No. 10, and my thing was shooting, finishing, and long-distance shots.
Soccer was my first love, and I enjoyed playing on the left wing until a groin injury forced me out of the game in 2008.
For a long time at Blackburn and at Fulham last season, I was playing on the right wing. I've never seen myself as a right-winger. I could play there and come inside and try to create.
You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold.
I began as a striker, then became a holding midfielder, and now I'm a centre-half. I've done everything except play in goal.
It's different to play midfielder and striker or No. 10, but I enjoy all the positions I can play.
Sometimes keepers are looked at differently to outfield players.
In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.
I'm always learning, especially with the different formations. It will help me in the long run to maybe become a forward player - on the wing or something.
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.
Most strikers playing in the Premier League regularly are aged around 23 or 24.
I hate false nines.
