“Daniel Alves was our first option on the right side. The problem that we had was that I had to decide to bring Alves as a winger when he was an offensive full-back. It was a difficult decision as we had money at the time for only just one striker or a winger/full-back. We signed a striker – the striker was Kuyt, who to be fair has turned out to be a fantastic contributor to the club.”
“Jovetic was also our target but we didn’t have the money. My idea was to play Mascherano, Lucas, Gerrard, Aquilani – two of these four players in the middle and Jovetic between the lines, but we didn’t have the money.”