If you look at the world-class performers at the top of the game, their numbers are just exceptional and that is the level he is at.

It's the nature of it. The players will want to compete at the highest level they possibly can.

The best players want to play in the best competition.

I can categorically tell you that Mario Balotelli will not be at Liverpool.

In football there is very rarely a "typical day" - there are always issues and challenges that arise from nowhere, and as manager you have to be ready to deal with them.

They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.

My template for everything is organisation. With the ball you have to know the movement patterns, the rotation, the fluidity and positioning of the team. When we have the football everybody's a player.