Brendan Rodgers

It's Brendan.

Hi, Gaffer.

Yeah, good man.

We're just asking you, I think the last time you scored at the Liberty was about five years ago when I was the manager.

Why has it taken so long for you to get a goal?

To be fair, I thought yous were brilliant defensively and obviously Brits in front of you there as well.

Yous controlled the two front boys who are very strong and I thought defensively as a team yous looked very good.

Yeah, for me he's a top centre-half.

He's one that I've always felt could play at one of the very top clubs in the league and obviously he's been very loyal to Swansea and stayed there.

You see, he's a wonderful player.

He plays over 50 games a season, every season.

He can defend, he's strong, can deal with all types of strikers.

And what makes him stand out, he's immaculate on the ball.

And for me, as I said, he's a massive, massive player.

Yeah, I think we actually just... He's been very, very unfortunate.

You know, I wanted to take him to Liverpool.

Was that close?

Why did it not happen?

Not really, no.

It wasn't something that... Did he place me?