You work for the last two days going into the game,
to prepare the game, and then you see that things are going exactly like you planned it,
how you were all talking about it, that's the best feeling you can have as a coach.
I'm the part who is thinking about our game constantly,
so preparing the next game is the main part -
what can we expect, what will we have to do, where are our solutions?
We want to be pretty precise and show the players exactly what our solutions will be
for the next game.
And this keeps you busy, I can tell you!
If you do it in the right way.
You watch a lot of football, and of course without support
I couldn't handle and deal with all the information which is necessary,
so it's a lot of information to deal with and I am something like a filter.
It gives you something you don't have normally when you live our life,
and that's time.
To go to the basics and think basically how we can go on football-wise,
what we can improve, really take the time, calm down and think about the basics.
Suddenly you see many possibilities coming up, and this gives you energy.
I know what we should do, so I have to talk of course to my colleagues
and convince them as well about my ideas, not too different of course,
but still there are always things to improve,
little details that I now have the time - or we all have the time - to think about.
First of all, I was too slow to play professional football!
Probably at the age of 16, 17 I became a coach,
and the most important step was that I started studying sports at the Univeristy of Mainz.
The Mainz manager at that time was searching for some students
who could support this work, and this was my step into professional football.
We did some analysis and tried to help a little bit to improve the team,
because they really struggled, they were last in the table,
they had a terrible right defender,
his name, if I remember right, was...Jürgen Klopp.
There was a lot of space to improve!
So, yeah, these were my first steps into professional football,
and Jürgen of course was one of the guys.
He studied sports as well, it was easy then to make a connection
and that was the way we started communicating and sharing ideas and so on.
I had this ambition to learn which I realised pretty quickly is so important,
and I told myself, "Come on, keep this up, I want to stay a learning person",
in life and as a football coach.
This was an important decision for me,
because now I know more than I knew 25 years ago,
but I'm pretty sure I will know more in the next 25 years,
so keep this up and learn every day, think about even more details - that's my way.
What I enjoy the most always is still the moments when only the team is together,
the first hour after that one in the dressing room...
Really a good time!
Then going back to Liverpool, that's the moment you realise
that's a massive one, and of course it's not only for you, and you know that,
but that's the moment when you feel it, you really get this...
How can I say it? It was for me a massive energy boost,
it makes you hungry for the next one, because that's the good thing,
if you deal with your success the right way
then you want to have this feeling again and again and again.
So this is what we are looking for as well.