MARIO GOMEZ

I've got nothing to teach to the Italians - I love playing in this league.

I am a forward and want to score many goals but for me that is not important. What is important is to be successful with the team.

You can't expect our opponents to play cautiously.

I just stand there up front and score the goals, because that's my job.

I'd call my time at Bayern Munich a roller-coaster ride.

What matters and what remains are the titles you win with a team. League and Cup, that's what matters.

Bayern do not depend on any individual players.

Winning the cannon was a childhood dream.

At 26, you're in your prime as a striker. And in the mid-20s you're more mature, you have experience in game-deciding situations, you stay relaxed.

It is not always easy to change country.

At one point, I asked myself whether I was having fun with the national team, or whether I was just out to convince critics.

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.

Sometimes you'll go up against keepers like Casillas - the 'penalty killer,' as many of us call him. Other times, there's that one defender that, for 90 minutes, just destroys you. There is one in particular who will always stand out in my mind. Nemanja Vidic.

Scoring from a metre out is just as beautiful as lobbing a goalkeeper from the halfway line.

I have no fear of anyone.

When it became clear that I couldn't stay at Bayern I thought about going to play in Spain or Italy. Fiorentina came forward, they were looking for a striker, and everything happened very quickly.

I came to Munich full of confidence, with plenty of energy, and really looking forward to it, in a way I don't think I'd had in my career before.

I know from my Real Madrid team-mates Mesut Ozil and Sami Khedira and my family in Andalucia that people look up to me in Spain.

I wanted for nothing at Bayern, but the most important thing was always playing as much as I could.

I guess there are worse things than being compared to Messi but I don't look at what he is doing. I just try to give my best for my team.

Bayern Munich made it possible for me to achieve the greatest wish of any footballer: Winning the Champions League.

We have to win if we want to be champions.

I asked myself whether I would be happy with limited playing time and I decided that wasn't good enough for me.

For me, scoring goals is the most fun. That's why I love soccer so much.

I would never go to another club in the Bundesliga. After Bayern Munich, it would only be a step down.