Ball game Quote by Ryan Babel

I came to Liverpool wanting to stay here for the rest of my career. I certainly didn't want to leave after a year.

— Jordan Henderson

I could have sat on the bench for a third year but I moved to West Brom from Liverpool to play. I love Liverpool…

— Rickie Lambert

I always wanted to be a one-club man, I always wanted to play for Liverpool. If I had gone out of the team in…

— Jamie Carragher

I played in the Premier League for Blackpool and earned the right to go to a club like Liverpool.

— Charlie Adam

But when I joined up with England I felt lucky to be there, and it was the same at Liverpool. And when I look…

— Rickie Lambert

When I was a child, that really was in my mind, to play for a great club like Liverpool.

— Naby Keita

I may have left Liverpool but the city and club will always be part of me.

— Kenny Dalglish

It was a difficult decision to leave Liverpool but I knew it was something I had to do to get playing regularly and improve.

— Conor Coady

I would have loved to play for Liverpool, Manchester United or Chelsea.

— Cafu

I was looking forward my whole career to once playing somewhere else to get the experience, and if I thought about moving to England,…

— Bastian Schweinsteiger

When I retired in 2006, I stayed for a further two years in England. I stayed because I wanted to be in England without…

— Dennis Bergkamp

Leaving Liverpool was the toughest decision I had to make in football because I was in an exemplary club, a proper football club, with…

— Xabi Alonso