'I was reduced to tears at Liverpool but fell in love with football again at Galatasaray'

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Latest Reds news and more on our dedicated Facebook page"I was going through a bad moment towards the end of my time at Liverpool, because I didn't know what was happening with myself," Kewell told SBS Sport in 2017. I may have to quit' - I wasn't enjoying football.

I wasn't feeling great; every time I was playing, my body was breaking down.READ MORE: Every Champions League last-16 tie predicted as six Premier League sides eye European gloryREAD MORE: 'Arne Slot's flipped Jurgen Klopp's script – Liverpool are never going to look the same'"We decided that I had to move to get a fresh start and break out of England ... my adventure started in Istanbul and I remember just falling in love with football again because I had gone through such a horrible time."At Leeds I felt great, then I won a lot of things at Liverpool but on an individual level it just wasn't great for me and I just didn't really love football that much. You fix one area and something else goes."The bottom of the world is when you're sitting on the end of the bed crying, and you're going 'Am I ever going to play again?' You're sitting there going, 'What's wrong with me?'"Despite weighing up retirement during his stint at the club, he has also spoken about the positives from his period under Benitez.

Kewell, who currently manages Vietnamese outfit Hanoi, has previously looked back on the highs and lows of his Liverpool career."If you look at the time I had [at Liverpool], three of those years I was injured," the former Notts County boss told the Nottingham Post in 2018. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like.