Liverpool Football Club is the heartland of football folklore
The Merseyside derby games are unique in the city.
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.
They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.
They have a choice as a club. They don't have to sell. Maybe Southampton's objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe. They obviously wanted to change... I don't have sympathy, no.
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.
Look at Tottenham. You spend over £100-odd million, you'd expect to be challenging for the league.
I know how it goes. Six or seven months ago I was the manager of the year and I was going to be this and that, tactically this and tactically that, and now, because we have lost two world-class players, I am useless. But I accept that.
When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team...It's death by football.
If one day I go to a game and I don't feel I can win, maybe I don't go.
I will leave no stone unturned in my quest - and that quest will be relentless - to try and get Liverpool back on the map again as a successful football club.
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.
I think my history as a coach shows I like players who are gifted technically and have courage when it comes to being in possession of a football. That is a key quality for me.
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.
I think I've proven I can build a team that plays a way of football that excites and challenges at the top end of the table.
I can categorically tell you that Mario Balotelli will not be at Liverpool.
I was surprised we were playing in Manchester and have a referee from Greater Manchester.
I think football management has obviously changed and evolved in terms of practices and methods, but I would say the values we strive to hold are the same as great men like Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley.
