I want to keep an English heart to the team. I believe in that. Michael Owen is that. Never think Michael is afraid of anything.

It is important for the club to find a balance in a world driven by economic and political needs. This club usually does that [on leaving Liverpool]

You can't build a cathedral in a day. A look at the club's history tells you these things take time.

You have different levels of players. There's are Premier League, international and world-class levels. The world-class level is players at the peak of their career and there's only maybe 50 maximum in the whole world. Stevie moved from a Premier League player to an international player and then world class.

When I see the Bill Shankly statue, I look at the sentiment on the base. It says: 'He made the people happy’. Well now the modern Liverpool is making the fans and the city happy. And that makes me so proud.

Our job is to make the fans happy. When we win, 45,000 people go home happy. When we lose, it not only affects them, it affects their cats.

I used to stand on the Kop when I was here in 1969. The atmosphere and passion on the pitch as well as the terraces was intoxicating and Liverpool became part of me from that day on.