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“Liverpool are a very good team everybody knows that and I am proud to be part of Liverpool.”
“The important thing, is to believe in a better future.”
“I don't think people in England ever saw the best of me.”
“I liked mostly to play football on the ground and have a little bit of playing tactics rather than just up and down, long balls and second balls. That's not really my game.”
“A return to the Eredivisie would be nice, but only if it's Ajax. I don't want to play for another team.”
“There were situations in my career where I played much better than another player in my position, but that player had a better name in terms of commercial appeal.”
“I tried to go to places I'd enjoy playing.”
“I was only used to 4-3-3. For me as a left-winger you have also a left midfielder and a left-back behind you. But in a 4-4-2 you are basically also the left midfielder so you have to help more in defence and I wasn't used to that.”
“People try to warn you about certain things, but sometimes you have to experience those things yourself.”
“I enjoyed my time in Germany, I definitely rate the league as it develops well and you have quite a lot of teams that play good football.”
“I don't go to church every week.”
“If you don't believe you will end up as nothing. But if you believe a lot you can create a lot.”
“I was loved in Liverpool, I had good relationship with the fans and my team-mates but I felt I could do better.”
“As far as I can judge, English football is not for everybody. You need to have the lungs for it, you need to have the strength for it.”
“If you misuse the things you have been given, God has the ability to take your talent away. That's the way it is for me and that is why a lot of religious people are grateful to their God.”
“I have enough confidence at the moment to say that I have the potential to play at the same level as Arjen Robben or Franck Ribery.”
“From every little territory I've been, I've picked something up, things that I could use to better my game, to take with me, and the rest I left behind.”
“I do have a weakness for Liverpool and I do want them to be champions.”
“Playing as a striker is a nice role because I spent all my youth there so that's why I like it.”
“Before I take an offer seriously, I do my own research.”