“Journalists in Holland wrote wrongly that I was one of the three or four candidates, but from the start it was clear to me. I told my agent that if I am one of three I am not interested.
“I’m only interested if they want me as the only one, because I didn’t want to go into another summer where I had to do all these kinds of meetings and then waiting, waiting, waiting. My time at Feyenoord was too good.
“So that’s why I had no doubts because they were so clear that Liverpool wanted to have me, and they knew everything about me. Immediately it was ‘OK’.”