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.

To me, the team is more important than any individual member of the squad, and the players have to realise that and accept that my priority is to pick a side with the best possible chance of winning each match.

Liverpool players must play like a lion, give his all. There must be determination, commitment and resolve to be a Liverpool player.

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.

Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.

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]

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.