I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love everything about playing for Newcastle, the club, the fans and the city.
I've always felt happy at Newcastle. But things have gone a bit differently for me since we got a new manager.
You go down some street - no doubt it's there, and we have to do something about it, and our programmes are designed to do that - but if that's a picture of Newcastle, it's not the one I recognise and I bet none in the North East do either.
I can't leave England.
I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.
I played in the Premier League for Blackpool and earned the right to go to a club like Liverpool.
Liverpool is a fundamental part of my life. They don't remember me that way, but time will change that. I could not have chosen a better place to go when I left Atletico.
I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.
I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.
When you leave a club like Liverpool, you have to go somewhere you'll feel comfortable and progress as a player. To come to Stoke was an easy decision.