I dictate entirely how the team is prepared, and I am a hands-on coach; I love to be out there with the players taking the sessions.

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.

If you give a bad player time, he can play. If you give a good player time, he can kill you.

The responsibility will always go with the manager - you put out the team.

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.

I'd rather lose a game trying to win it, than lose it trying not to get beat

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