Everton manager Carlo Ancelotti has asked Nigerian International, Alex Iwobi to open up and tell him where he prefers to play on the pitch.
Alex Iwobi took to his Instagram page to share a post and wrote: “Always an honour to get a call up to my national team. Hopefully I get to play in my preferred position.”
Carlo Ancelotti has responded to the claims and said: “I want to know his preferred position because usually I want to put a player on the pitch where they are comfortable to play, not where they are uncomfortable to play. If he has an idea of where he prefers to play I have to know, I want to know. I would be delighted to know his preferred position and I’ll put him in his preferred position for sure, no doubt.
“I am going to tell him: ‘Tell me, I am your manager, tell me where you want to play’. When I thought to put Pirlo as a holding midfielder I asked him: ‘Do you like to play there or not?’. ‘Yes’, he said to me, ‘I’d love to play there’ and so I put him there. If he wants to play number 10 or number nine I’ll put him at number 10 or number nine no problem. I can adapt the system.”
