Georginio Wijnaldum

Because I was fast, technical, and could dribble well, it was always the easy thing to label me just a winger and have me stick to that. ”

It's irrelevant how I prefer to play and what I want. It's all about what works for the team. ”

I was full of confidence in myself that I would reach the top or be a professional player as a midfielder. ”

As a football player, you must have a big ego to respect yourself. So if you are a good player, you must say that you are good. You need to have the confidence. ”

He gave me a lot of confidence because he said he liked my way of playing football. He said I was a person he really wanted to have in his squad. Something like that is always good to hear. It made me happy, especially as it came from such a great trainer like Jurgen Klopp. He showed how good he is at Dortmund with all the success he had. ”

I have to be honest: in my career, I've really had to fight to come in the middle again. A lot of managers told me, 'You are way more comfortable as a winger than as a midfielder,' but I always kept my trust and confidence in what I knew about my qualities. ”

I think if you think that far ahead about the first four, or to be champions, that is something you cannot control. You can control the training, and then the performance will come game by game, and do not think that far ahead. ”

No team can play really good in 50 games. During the season, you will not play that well all the time. ”

I was only one year at Newcastle, but that time there meant a lot to me. I met some great people who helped me to play good games in the Premier League, and it was because of them I got the move to Liverpool. ”

I only worked with Rafa Benitez for a short time, but he's a great manager, and he showed it from the first moment he came. He worked with the players and made us a better team. He's a good person, always trying to help players out. ”