My dream was always that we could play in any random shirt,
but if you watched us play, you would say, "Ah, that's Liverpool."
For me it was not a disappointment.
They won it, we didn't win it - done.
We won the Champions League final - great, let's carry on.
The more important information for me was how good we can be.
If we are really concentrated, really focused and if we improve a couple of things,
we can get even better. That was our motivation -
using the last season as a basis, not as a sign of how close it can be
and how much it can hurt.
Of course it hurts, but it's not the pain you have when somebody...
It's just that you can decide how much it hurts and what you make with that information.
We decided to use the information that we are now a really good football team.
And if we are a really good football team, then we have to win football games,
so now it's about us deciding how many football games we will win.
We really take each game, game by game,
and it's the most important game in our lives, because it's the only one we're playing.
The history of this club is so big.
And it was all about winning, but it always caused the following generations problems.
Because everybody thought, "We are just not good enough."
It's like if your grandfather did something and your father was also really good,
and now you are coming along and trying to do what they did,
in a different time, in a different environment and circumstances and all that stuff.
You will never be happy, so get rid of that!
You are your own person, so come on, let's use your skills,
and that's exactly what we did.
Of course the boys bought into that, but the people as well.
So that was the most important thing, it really gave us the chance to start new.
Still great, still wonderful, absolutely sensational,
but now we are in charge and now we have to do our best.
Now we have players where the kids of today will talk in the future
about their wonderful past, so, that's how it is.
When we have this agreement, everything was fine, everything was good,
that's why we talked, that's why we signed you,
but from now on I expect much more.
For that, he gets more than he ever got before;
more attention, more education, hopefully better training -
that's a clear agreement.
If he's not happy with one of these parts, he can come to me and tell me.
"You told me that, it didn't happen."
If I am not happy with one of the things he agreed, I will go to him and tell him.
"You said this and that, you didn't do that - why?"
This is a clear deal, but a handshake deal, not written down.
We have a few clear rules [of] how we want to play,
how we want to defend, where we want to defend,
where we want to pass, actually.
It's not that we have a book, I give it to you, you read it and then you know it.
So these are the kinds of things - how lively are we, how positive,
how brave? Absolutely important for the boys.
Through all the ranks, through all the teams.
Is a 10-year-old too young for it?
I'm not an expert, it's not that intense actually,
it's just a specific way,
but at 17/18/19/20 you are for sure old enough
and that's exactly the moment when you have...
My dream was always that we could play in any random shirt,
but if you watched us play you would say, "Ah, that's Liverpool."
The identity is that clear, that everybody would say,
"Oh, that's Liverpool."
And that's what we try.
I never had a full bad day in my office.
Actually I don't feel I work - I do what I want to do constantly!
It's like when I watch a football game and I can tell my missus, "It's work", that's great!
No, I don't have to overcome bad days, to be honest.
We have problems here,
I come in and one, two, three, four players can't train or can't play.
That's the moment where you really struggle, but that's the problem in that moment,
in the next moment you work on a solution,
and then you find one and from that moment on my day is good again,
because now I have a solution and now we can work with that.
I love football so much because it's a really good example
of how different cultures work together.
We are one group, that's my dream of the world, that's my dream of Europe,
that's why I was not so happy about Brexit because I don't understand the world like this.
In a football team nobody cares where you're from, but it's important to know about it
because of course we treat each other like this.
Why should I treat Mohamed Salah or Sadio Mane
exactly the same way as Jordan Henderson,
who has grown up here?
So I try to understand why people are like they are
and the boys try to understand that as well.
We want to function as a group and that means you have to respect the individual,
that's what we do and a football dressing room is such a good example
for how colourful the world can be.
You use all the different cultures, all the different strengths,
all the different education to be the best team you can be.
It's just a great example, really.
Having eye contact in moments where I celebrate,
turn and then you have exactly his eyes, and you see like...this,
and you feel pretty much the same, this is everything for me.
It was like this for me as a kid.
I know it's not that important, I just forget it constantly around football games.
If there's a football game, we all know this feeling,
it's really like this and in the end you forget everything around.
Which I think is allowed, it cannot happen that often but it's allowed for these 95 minutes.
And then we really can connect to each other and create the best atmosphere ever.
Yeah, seeing how much it means to other people gives me a lot.
The success doesn't change really, the time we spend together changes it
because in the beginning I don't know them.
I trust them, because they're football players
and I think I know how they are after being 20 years in the job,
but the rules are really strict and all that stuff.
Now we work together in a different way.
It's still clear, without discipline you cannot do any sports,
it's just not possible, so that's why it's so important that we still have rules,
but it's much easier for the boys to respect them
because they are completely logical now, they know why we have these kinds of rules.
So, no, the relationship or the job doesn't change that much
because of the success, it changes much more because of the time we have together.
That's for sure, and that's really nice.
That's really, really nice.