I think a top-class midfielder needs to be able to tackle, get up and down the pitch, pass, create opportunities, and score goals. That's why I try to do everything; that's what I judge my game on.
Aaron Ramsey
Being a midfielder, I need to get up and down, whether it's to get back and defend or get away from my opposite number. Extra effort in training makes all the difference.
I want to be the complete midfielder, someone who can defend and attack. Steven Gerrard is someone who's done that very well over the years, and he is someone I am trying to emulate.
I am a central midfielder, and that's where I like to be.
Hopefully I can be one of the best midfielders in the world. That's what drives me on: to try and achieve that and to try and go on and win many things.
Central midfield has been my main position, but I'll play wherever the gaffer wants me.
In all ways, I want to be better in all of these things that top midfielders can do.
I want to keep on improving as a player and become the best... one of the best midfielders in my position in the world.
As a midfielder, you have to have vision. If you see an opening that might create an opportunity, you have to believe in yourself and go for it; a 40-yard pass or an eye-of-the-needle ball. You have to feel you are going to make it. That's the way I play. I have a picture in my mind, and I go for it.
Growing up I've been playing as an attacking midfielder, more central in the midfield. I wouldn't say if I'm most comfortable there but that's where I grew up playing.
Alex Iwobi
I've always seen myself as a midfielder but wherever I'm being told to play in the middle or somewhere, I will always give my best.
I just say I'd like to be an attacking midfielder.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
I just want to be able to be an attacking influence and have that effect further up the pitch; whether that's from an attacking midfield position or one of the wider positions coming in, I'm not too fussed.
I've grown up playing in central midfield more, and I think my natural game is about coming inside from wide.
When I play in central midfield, that's my favourite position.
Sometimes in midfield, it's nice because you do get a little bit more of the ball, and maybe out wide you rely on people to get you the ball.
It is very important as a midfielder to score.
Ander Herrera
Pogba is a midfielder who has all the qualities. When you are a midfielder you normally have some special qualities but he has everything.
There are many talented midfielders but not the kind of playmaker I am.
Andrea Pirlo
Every player wants to be as complete as possible and goals for a central midfielder are very important.
Andres Iniesta
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.
I am actually comfortable in every position in midfield. At Bayern Munich, I even played as a winger and sometimes a full-back, so I can play many different positions.
Every striker wants his midfielders to do well. If they play well, more than likely, I'll play well.
There are strikers all over the world who wouldn't get the goals if they didn't have a creative midfielder or someone that enjoys making assists.
I don't want to be known for someone that's good-looking. I want to be known as someone who is one of the best midfielders. That's my thing.
Usually, the most intelligent player is a midfielder.
If you have a good midfield, you have a good team.
Busquets is a great player. I have many things to learn from him: how he shapes the game from the back, his positioning, the balance he provided in the midfielder.
Nowadays midfielders definitely have to be complete players - you can't just be a destroyer, you have to build play too.
Casemiro has to cover the gaps left by the midfielders.
The midfield is the heartbeat of a football team, it's the centre of the action, so you can't just do one thing.
The cap is a discussion about competitiveness, not about money. It's about trying to bring the top teams down to a level where the midfield teams feel they can compete. The reality is that whatever the level of spend there will always be teams that run at the front and teams that run at the back.
I'm an attacking midfielder.
All coaches now look for forwards who not only score goals but also run back and help in midfield.
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.
They wanted to play me central midfield when I was at Aston Villa, so that's why we left. Things were going good at Coventry, but then scouts from Manchester United and different clubs around England were watching me, and I don't think Coventry liked that.
I'm a centre forward, and that is my preferred position. But I'll play on the wing or in midfield, wherever the manager wants me to play.
If I was to play on the left, I'd rather play there if there was three in midfield.
If you are playing on the left of a four-man midfield, there are a lot more defensive duties to do, so you can't find the times to keep attacking. But if you're on the left of a 4-3-3, I find that position really good as well.
People can say I've not scored enough goals, but you see the best strikers on the wing in a four-man midfield and see if they score goals. Nobody can really criticise my finishing because they don't really see me playing in a forward position too often.
For United, I'm more likely to be left wing of a four-man midfield with only two centre-mids, so it's a bit more difficult for me to maybe make those runs to get in and score those goals when I've got to think about my defensive duties as well.
I've said it a few times over the years that I'm very happy in midfield.
I think the first attacker has the ball, starts from the back, you can see everything, and you have to play with the feel of a midfielder, not a goalkeeper.
I want to play football, and I want to help the team. It doesn't matter if I play midfield, if I play in defence, if I play as a striker.
I changed my position when I was 16 or 17. I started in midfield or further forward as a number 10, and then in one tournament, we lost two defenders to injury in the same game, and we didn't have any on the bench. So I played at the back, and the manager of the first team saw me, and he said, 'I want this guy in the first team,' and that was that!
I am an attacking midfielder, and I have scored goals, but I want to score more and win more.
I think that by playing centre midfield in the middle of the park, I'm doing something which comes naturally to me.
In the midfield, I'm not the most comfortable playing with my back to the goal, and in the midfield you find that ball a lot.
As I'm growing up, going into holding midfield, I'm watching Busquets quite a lot for Barcelona. The way he controls the game, his reading of it, technically, defensively - everything about him cuts him out above the rest. I'm really enjoying watching him.
It's good that I can play in two positions, as a centre-back or as a holding midfielder, as I just want to get minutes and get games.
