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.

Status does not matter. It is what you are like as a player. It doesn't matter how much money you have come for. That doesn't matter to me. I will play a 17-year-old if he fights and he has quality. It is quite easy.

I was surprised we were playing in Manchester and have a referee from Greater Manchester.

I must have just dreamed that about Liverpool playing 3-4-3. What do people think that was, a bit of luck? A British coach playing 3-4-3? A foreign coach doing that would be a tactical genius. I imagine people think I fell into that system through a stroke of luck or something... it took some thought. I didn't just throw them out there.

They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.

I hope when my time as Liverpool manager is over, I'm remembered as someone who improved the team and left the club in a better position than I inherited it.

I enjoy my work. The reason I worked so hard all my life is because I want to be making big decisions and managing at the very highest level.