No money in this world could convince me to play for Liverpool. That’s not a lack of respect for Liverpool supporters or the football club. It’s respect for the Everton supporters. You just can’t do that. It goes against everything that I stand for. No chance.
Personally, I’m happy how I played in my first ‘clasico’ against Liverpool.
I love Liverpool and it is great to be back in the city.
There is great respect for Liverpool in the Ivory Coast.
To be in the last four of the biggest competition is where you want to be and where Liverpool have been as a club many times in the past.
I had a wonderful time at Liverpool. My three and a half years there was a great experience.
A good thing for footballers is not to think too much, especially when you’ve got to move to a big team like Liverpool, because that’s when you start to confuse your mind.
I will always support the team and the club. That’s why I am a Liverpool player and I am grateful for the support I get from the fans. It’s always nice to see and hear they are behind you.
Returning to England is definitely not in my plans. I had talks with Liverpool, a club I admire a lot, but like I said it’s not in my plans, although life takes many turns.
My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city; he had no choice.
As soon as I knew Liverpool were interested in me, I knew I wanted to come here. It was everything about the club, the history and these players.
I think that Liverpool’s particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London in many ways. When you go to Liverpool, you absorb that whole sound and humour.
I just worry about playing well and helping Liverpool go as far as possible in the Premier League. If that is achieved by me scoring goals, even better.
I just try and do my best every day of the week, and not look too far ahead. It’s the old Liverpool style – you get it done and everything else comes to you.
I played in the Premier League for Blackpool and earned the right to go to a club like Liverpool.
Why Galatasaray and not Liverpool? Because I am a winner – I play for prizes – so I went to Galatasaray because I thought that I would win more at Galatasaray and be champion than at Liverpool, and I think afterwards that I made the right choice.
My father’s mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother’s cup and saucer.
I buy a lot of Liverpool trinkets. I’ve got Philippe Coutinho’s boot – I spent three grand on that. Which, you know, is insane. But it’s Philippe Coutinho’s boot, what you gonna do?
When you are at a club like Liverpool, it is not a club that you want to walk away from.
Liverpool stands for unity, Liverpool stands for ‘all together.’
We’ve spent more than 200 million dollars of taxpayer dollars to protect the Liverpool Plains.
There are times when I watch Jurgen Klopp leaping around after Liverpool have scored and I think to myself: ‘I wish that was me.’
Mainly it’s the parents who remember me. But the kids today, what they do is go and Google you. A lot of them turn up and they know everything about me. They say: ‘You scored 346 goals’ or ‘You wore the No9 shirt for Liverpool.’
We can do what we love to do and also to play for Liverpool – they are such a big club. You need to enjoy it but the pressure will always be there.
I could have sat on the bench for a third year but I moved to West Brom from Liverpool to play. I love Liverpool and I’ve played a lot of games in my career so if I wanted to have a comfy life, I could have stayed at Liverpool.
The dream is to captain Liverpool.
I have so many memories and have so many people to thank at Liverpool. I have to improve as a player. In my head, I always think this.
I’ve still got Paul Scholes’ shirt at home, which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool, he was one of the players I liked most.
A. L. Vijay asked if I could dance, and I just said yes. I didn’t tell him the only dancing I had done was on nights out in Liverpool. He said he would arrange workshops and help me with the scripts and the language. He liked the fact that I was English but had an Indian look.
The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.
But I loved my time with Liverpool – they were great times, fun times and emotional times.
When I left Ajax in 1999, I travelled to Liverpool and spoke to Houllier. I was shown around Anfield and also met with the chairman and a couple of the players. I thought about it, but when Juventus came to the table, I came to the conclusion that it would be a bigger challenge to play in Italy.
I just enjoying playing for Liverpool, it doesn’t really matter who is standing next to me.
When you’re at a big team like Liverpool, you can’t expect to start every game.
Learning to be a Liverpool player comes with experience.
I was not a Liverpool fan or a Chelsea fan in Madrid. I was an Atletico fan. I still am. Maybe they’re the only badge I will kiss.
When I am out in Liverpool, the fans come up and talk to me. But I cannot take in everything they say because I don’t understand all of it.
I am happy at Liverpool.
From the moment I first spoke with him, I knew that I wanted to join Liverpool. I fell for Klopp – hook, line, and sinker.
To play for the England national team, you have to be very good, and to play at Liverpool, you have to be very, very good.
A little voice keeps telling me an Aston Martin really isn’t me, but a louder voice is telling me that, as an England international playing for Liverpool, the old rules no longer apply.
I have always wanted to fight no matter what position I am in, and whether that is Liverpool or England, I need to do more, and I need to do better because you have younger players, or players get signed for the club who push you and want to take your place, and you have to be better than them.
I guess, as a young girl growing up in Liverpool in the ’80s, when unemployment was high, my ideal job would have been to have been Minister for Employment to see, can you solve these problems? Can you get people into work?
When a big player leaves, a big player leaves. You’re at a big club like Liverpool, another big player will come in the future.
I got racist abuse at Liverpool when I played for Watford. Then I played for Liverpool and didn’t get it. If I had played for Everton against Liverpool then maybe the Liverpool fans would have racially abused me.
I know how quickly it can all change. I nearly won the title at Liverpool, and everybody’s saying, ‘Sign him up’ – then, very quickly, I was out.
Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.
The Premier League is the best competition in the world, and it’s not easy to win a league with great teams like Man United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City, and Arsenal as rivals.
Playing for Liverpool, I know what the relationship between the fans and the club is like. With every player, you can see the desire to win, the desire to show that Liverpool are the best and deserve to win the league.
Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.
I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don’t remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.
Liverpool had a lot of success under Rafa Benitez, and that is difficult for anyone to follow.
My two boys, Henri and Freddie don’t really know much about Liverpool! They’ve got Wolves kits and come to all the games. They sing the songs, it’s great.
Oh it kills me to see Liverpool lose.
I was at a local club, Penketh United, and Mike Glennie, a Manchester United scout, came to watch me. He spoke to my grandad and offered me trials, but there was also interest from Liverpool, and I had to pick – I was only young, but obviously my heart was with United at the time.
For a 20-year-old kid to be taking on Liverpool Football Club over a contract. To the pit of my stomach that just winds me up, it angers me.
Liverpool are a very hard team to beat in front of their own crowd.
I was lucky in that I played in a Liverpool team alongside the likes of Raheem Sterling, Jon Flanagan, Andre Wisdom and Suso and you knew that these players were special.
At Liverpool, Jurgen pretty much does everything, and we just follow him. Of course, we’ve still got leaders within the group to implement his message, but more often than not, we listen and then just do what he says.
Liverpool will always be a very special place to me.
I have played at Liverpool, a special club, grown as a player and won titles.
When you play for Liverpool, there’s always pressure, pressure to perform, expectation. Of course, that’s the reason why you want to go there.
But when I joined up with England I felt lucky to be there, and it was the same at Liverpool. And when I look back now I realise I lost something mentally as a player, by allowing that to happen.
