John Barnes

They looked at you to say, can you play with a level of consistency over a period of time before you come to a big club?

Rather than now, one good season, you cost £50 million, you see the inconsistency.

So when I came to Liverpool...

I played up front a couple of times against Liverpool, and of course, you would know this, with Marcus Rashford and everybody, we're wide players, but everyone wants to be a centre-forward, don't they?

Because we like it.

Until they start getting kicked, then all of a sudden they don't want to do that.

But I played up front against Liverpool, and when I signed, Rushie's gone.

I've come to replace Rushie.

It was going to be me and Aldo.

And one week later, they signed Peter Birtley.

And I'm thinking, well, where am I going to play?

Because you're going to play on the left.

I said, but you don't play with Winger.

He'll go, you'll work it out.

to work it out.

So then I started coming in off the line, which I've never ever done on one foot, because they use your initiative.

I shouldn't have said that.

You could have thought it, as we all thought it.

In fact, when I was leaving, interestingly, I don't know if you're getting on to that, when I was leaving, I was saying to Mo, I'm 34, you know, time's coming up, and it's like, well, they're making a bit of a... In fact, that's what happened, because, of course, I was in midfield, I had to change the way I play, roughly, and then all of a sudden, because I'm not like a... They said, we need Imci.

So they said, that's what we need, we need them to come back, and, you know, the reason why we're not winning, and Man United are taking on, because we don't have that commanding figure in midfield.