In-depth Jamie Carragher Q&A: Best season, transfer fear, beloved manager, inspired signing & more

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I don’t know if he’d signed Ziege by that time, but I remember him saying, he loved me and he wanted me in his team.He used to say to me I’ll find a place for you somewhere. You know, that hadn't really been a thing before that – two quality players for every position but luckily for me the position I found myself in he never changed the back four, so I knew I was playing every game.

Houllier was like that in team meetings, he’d really pump you up about the game – ‘you can't let him get the best of you, see the age of him, he's a diesel car’. He wasn't like, if I play, I play – he wanted to play.He had that thing about him – he loved footie.

That’s what I loved about him.And the thing I love about Houllier more than anything is the day he left when he sat there with Rick Parry in the press conference and I thought, how class is that, that is Liverpool for me.And when I think of Houllier, I think Liverpool, even though he's French. He was not having anyone thinking they were bigger than the club or special treatment or nothing like that.GR: Did he talk you up, did he motivate you?JC: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was the best motivator I ever had as a manager by a mile.