It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have a fantastic respect for Liverpool the city, club and the fans, from the time I spent there. That respect will always be there.
Liverpool is such a big club, and I was fortunate to be one of a select few to have played for them. It was an amazing time.
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 think Liverpool have a long history with many great players. I hope one day to be up there with those great players. I'll try my best to write some history here.
No money in this world could convince me to play for Liverpool. That's not a lack of respect for Liverpool supporters or the football club. It's respect for the Everton supporters. You just can't do that. It goes against everything that I stand for. No chance.
Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.
It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.
The only thing I want is the respect of the fans of Liverpool and the fans of the national team of Uruguay.
I will never forget how I have been treated here by the fans, the club and the owners, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to finish my career as a Manchester City player.