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He helped claim the club's first ever Premier League title as well as the Champions League, but underlined the desire to seek a new challenge.

His status as a homegrown player was held against him when it became increasingly obvious that he wasn't going to remain with Liverpool.

If he wants to go and try something new for his family, for him, just to do something different in his life, I've got no problem.



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"It's different.

It's different food, different language, different weather.

It's different football, new stadium, it's in a white kit and not red.

Of course that's what I think and we're talking football, it's different to anything else.

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"If you get a promotion, if you could do in your [position], everybody says 'well done, Matt (Chapman, his interviewer), congratulations'.

But if it's football, no, you're a traitor and this and that and the other, which is quite sad because he's done everything."

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