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Leaving Liverpool was the toughest decision I had to make in football because I was in an exemplary club, a proper football club, with a lovely and sharing stadium that meant a lot of things to me. The fans are the best in the world, no doubt about that, and I was comfortable there.
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Managing Liverpool? Yes, for sure, I have dreamt of that, but first I have to prove myself and prepare.
I accept I am going to miss playing because it's such an important part in my life. It's going to be difficult to fill that gap. Life goes on.
I don't think tackling is a quality. It is a recurso, something you have to resort to, not a characteristic of your game.
If you have control of the midfield, you have control of the game, and you have more chances to win.
If you win the midfield, you probably win the game. But that doesn't mean the players in the midfield are the ones alone who determine that, because now we have strikers who drop into midfield and defenders who move up into the midfield. It is the area you must dominate.
I left Real Madrid for the same reason Di Maria did. We work hard but only others get the praise.
Being a manager is so different to being a footballer. It's a very difficult job, but, of course, it's very exciting as well.
You need to have the same ideas to work as a team, to have a good team spirit. And you don't get there in a day or even a month. It takes some time to get there.
I tried to do everything just as I would before any other match, but it was impossible.
Passion isn't something you work on. It's more important to construct a good team, to know how you are going to play, how to read the match. You have to truly understand the game.
