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I just want to be remembered as a fantastic player who gave everything for the team and enjoyed every bit of it.
I won't be a pundit because you have to be saying certain things that you might not even want to, but you have to.
I have a very similar connection with Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool as I had earlier with Ronald Koeman at Southampton.
No one is going to look at the good things you do. Everybody is going to watch the bad things and that is how it is.
It is a strength of mine to not really bother too much when people have their opinions, especially negative opinions.
You have to tell each other the truth, you cannot be nice and happy when we want to achieve so much as a team and a club.
We want to play on the highest level and the Champions League, other than the Premier League for us, is the highest level.
If you're nervous you think: 'I don't want to make mistakes or give the ball away.' But you limit your own qualities then.
I was always playing on the streets with my friends until I was 15 or 16 and I wanted to do things with my skills that were exciting.
To get the PFA Player of the Year is a fantastic honour. It's the highest honour you can get because it's voted by your fellow peers.
You take every opportunity you have to win a trophy. That is always the goal, and winning makes it a little bit easier the next time.
If I watch big games like the Champions League on TV then I'm definitely watching what different centre-backs are doing in certain situations.
I love to have the pressure of having to win every game, love the pressure of keeping clean sheets every game, no matter if we're 5-0 or 6-0 up.
We can do what we love to do and also to play for Liverpool - they are such a big club. You need to enjoy it but the pressure will always be there.
I am very hard on myself. I know the slightest loss of concentration, the slightest mistake will be punished. I try to limit it as much as possible.
Obviously, I'm honoured to be mentioned as a candidate to win the Ballon d'Or, but the only way I can influence it is to just focus on playing well.
You need to be aware of the qualities of every striker you face, as I always am, but sometimes you need to be smart and more than 100% ready for anything.
Just focus on doing what you love to do and play your best game. Get your qualities out of the pitch, enjoy your game and don't think about the other things.
I'm very happy to have already been welcomed into the LFC family, I'm a part of history having won the Champions League and hopefully we keep making history.
The Champions League is unbelievably big. The whole show before, the fans, the players you play against, the people who are going to watch the game, the pressure - it's very special.
Obviously there are a lot of expectations when you come to a club for a record fee but you can't change that. You just need to perform and show it on the pitch and gain respect through that.
I want to enjoy the games because not a lot of people have the chance to do what we do. That's how we started football as well, enjoying what we are doing and that's what I try to do as well.
I remember starting 'Game of Thrones,' everyone said 'you have to watch it,' but I thought 'it's science fiction, it's not real, it's nothing.' I gave it a go and then couldn't stop watching it.
I was never a standout player until I played for the under-19s and became the captain. Then everything went much better - I played some games for the under-23s and after that it went pretty quickly.
When I went to FC Groningen, I had to take my bike to training - my first wage went on driving lessons. Before I signed my contract, I was 15 or 16 and working as a dishwasher in a Breda restaurant.
Like Koeman, Klopp knows exactly how to get the best out of me - by being critical. When the media are hyping me and being very positive, he will downplay the praise and all that - often with a wink.
In my position when things are going well it's pretty easy to say that I'm sort of the guy that fixes everything. But if things are going bad then I'm the one that gets all the blame. In the end, we all do it together.
I need to be coming off the pitch every game with my voice gone, and that's something I can bring. I am just someone who likes to organise, make sure everything is well organised, because that makes it a lot easier for yourself too.
To be in the Champions League final is something you need to experience. To win it would obviously be the best experience ever. To be there, the build-up - with the media even, the stadium, travelling, our fans - it's something very special.