"To be honest, when the manager played me at left-back when I returned for pre-season I wasn't very happy.
"I didn't know what was going on, until Carlos Queiroz came to me in training and convinced me that I could play there and still be an attacking player.
"Carlos told me to look at the way Roberto Carlos gets forward all of the time and to try to model my game on that.
"I'm also looking at it as a big opportunity for me."