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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Liverpool is a massive club in reputation, but as soon as I came here, it felt like Atletico to me. It is a working city, an honest city. The people work all week, and on Saturday they want to go to Anfield and watch the best team in the world.
One of the reasons I chose to come to Liverpool was because of the mentality of the club. It's a working club and a working city. I don't know why, but I feel like one of the people here. They recognise me and wish me luck, but in Spain, they surround you and you can't do anything. I think they're happy with me here.
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.
It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.
In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it's a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.
I played in the Premier League for Blackpool and earned the right to go to a club like Liverpool.
I'm not going to another club to hurt Liverpool.
Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.
I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.