It's not just the manager who makes the decision, it's the player who makes the decision. They both decide fifty-fifty to make a decision.

If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.

Every day I work my guts out in training, every match I play my heart out.

Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.

People say it is part of the game. You win some, you lose some. But not for me.

As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer.

Messi is on a different level. The fact he is doing what he is year after year says that he is the best of all time.