In Portugal the coach would sit on the bench and not say a word. We'd just play. It was a matter of us making mistakes and learning from them by ourselves. You understand the game a lot better that way.
You can see something on film, but until you're really out there playing against somebody and you see him for the first time, you don't really know.
I was always a big fan of waiting a year of two to groom an NFL quarterback; let him learn and mature.
When I was at Leipzig, I was coming on for the last 10 or 20 minutes, and the game has kind of gone then. You don't get a feel for how you are as a player.
I can't imagine as a rookie actually playing good football. I went through it.
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.
When the assessment of goalkeepers is made by people who have never actually stood there in a game and experienced it, then it's hard to take it without a large pinch of salt.
It's one thing trying it in training and another entirely on the pitch.
I always wanted to be going out on loan and playing football and maturing as a goalkeeper.
Salzburg improved me as a player, and I learnt so much there. I got a really tactical education.
It's about getting experience and developing. The best way to do that is to go out on loan to play first-team football.
The most important thing for me is that I get regular first team action.
