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Right backs now should be the highest paid players in every team! Strikers just have to score. Midfielders, they pass. Goalkeepers make saves. Full backs have to mark, cover centre backs and midfield, get forward and cross, take shots and provide the link to strikers.

Cafu

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Cafu

Centre-backs usually get criticised for clearing the ball long, but it's easier doing this than risking a pass. If you lose the ball at the back, it's almost a goal. Most centre-backs don't risk this kind of game, depending on the holding midfielder in front.

Thiago Silva

If you've got Godin and Chiellini as your centre-backs, then you can have more attacking full-backs, as opposed to defensive ones.

Steve Nicol

We center backs had to cover a lot of ground, and we had to be very physical with the opposing strikers.

Pepe

Porto prepared me really well and this didn't go unnoticed in Spain, as before I went to Real Madrid the club were known as a graveyard for centre-backs. They had amazing centre-backs that had failed there.

Pepe

If you win the midfield, you probably win the game. But that doesn't mean the players in the midfield are the ones alone who determine that, because now we have strikers who drop into midfield and defenders who move up into the midfield. It is the area you must dominate.

Xabi Alonso

Maybe modern tactics mean that making the switch from defence to midfield is easier. Many years ago, full backs were more limited - you were just supposed to defend, and it didn't matter if you could get forward too.

Philipp Lahm

There's a lot of players who you can pick up some stuff from, not just only full-backs or defenders. Even training with the top players every week you can get good things from all of them.

Hector Bellerin

The strikers need the midfielders, defenders, and goalkeepers. My objective is to have everything work in all the aspects.

Luis Enrique

I look for players who do not just score goals but provide an attacking point, linking with other players and able to see the third man as well. Van Persie is one of the best strikers around at that.

Louis van Gaal

When you make a mistake, and the team is not doing well in defence, then the centre-backs and the 'keeper suffer more than the others.

Rafael Benitez

Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

Idries Shah

Centre-backs with good technique can move the ball forward, even when under pressure.

Thiago Silva

I suffer during games. We follow the action, kicking every ball, wondering if our centre-backs can stop the cross... In some ways, you enjoy it, but your heart is always thumping.

Roy Hodgson

Casemiro has to cover the gaps left by the full-backs.

Casemiro

There are those who condemn five in midfield as a negative tactic, but when a side's centre-backs are as hapless as Chris Perry and Hermann Hreidarsson were on Sunday, it is not nearly negative enough.

Matthew Engel

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.

Raul Julia

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