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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Stephen Nicol is a Scottish retired professional footballer who mainly played as a right back and occasionally played in other positions across defence and midfield. He played for the successful Liverpool teams of the 1980s. He was also a regular member of the Scotland national team and represented his country at the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

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When your touch goes, it starts biting into your confidence as well.

Steve Nicol

Crisps, pies, pizzas, coke - I was a bit of a human dustbin. But my philosophy was: 'Ach, I'll burn it off at training.' And I did.

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To get players for MLS, we sometimes had to go to places where nobody else goes. The big teams have global scouting networks but we had to be creative.

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I think Sadio Mane is lucky the way Liverpool play. His job is pretty much to stay on one half of the field. Yes, he does come back and help out defensively every now and again, but generally he's told to stay in the attacking half of the field and go at defenders.

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During my first eight years at the Revs we drafted really well, but I got very little from the last two drafts that I took part in.

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At the end of the day, if you want to go somewhere you can make it happen.

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I think sometimes it's a little bit dangerous to change things when clearly they're working.

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That feeling when I got the New England Revolution job on a permanent basis was one of relief, similar to when I signed for Sheffield Wednesday - I knew I was capable of doing a job at a decent level again but I just needed someone to believe in me.

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The problem I had with Raheem Sterling when he left Liverpool was not the fact that he was leaving Liverpool. Any professional footballer wants to go to where they think they're going to win things, where the money is and everything else and that was Manchester City.

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The days of 35-year-old pros turning up in the States to earn easy money before retiring are long gone and the MLS is a really competitive league.

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When we were winning the League, United always raised their game when they played us.

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Obviously, if you go to any football club in the world, you're going to get guys taking the mickey out of one another, but I would say that in Liverpool it was a lot closer to the knuckle.

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I came to New England Revolution as an assistant in 2000 and I took over the hot-seat a couple of months into that season. We got to the MLS cup final that year, and in 2004, 2005 and 2006 - but we lost all of them.

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Everyone wants more money, but if the motivation is money it's not going to work, if that's the only thing you want.

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As a Liverpool supporter, all you want is for them to be successful.

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I'm proud of my record at the Revs - 299 games, 110 wins, 108 draws, 81 losses - but even if I was to get the chance to coach those last two years again - 2010 and 2011 - I reckon I'd still have found it difficult to ensure a different outcome.

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I've no idea if I'll manage in the Premier League. It's easy to say I will but you don't know.

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There are a whole load of different pressures that go with being the head coach, manager, whatever you want to call it. And everybody who's done it, there are times when it becomes too much and you need some sort of break while you figure out how you de-stress, if you want.

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If you sign nine new players at one time that could destroy the whole chemistry of the team.

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Most people satisfy their appetite when they sit down to eat. I'm not most people.

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A big reason why you take a chance on a 34-year-old who has bags of experience, is a great player is to pass that on to your younger players.

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Nobody thought Real Madrid could win three Champions Leagues on the trot, and they've done it.

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My best season at New England was probably my first in charge. We reached the final of the Major League Soccer Cup in 2002, losing in extra time against Los Angeles Galaxy.

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When you change your lineups all the time, you lose that continuity. It's all over the place.

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Playing for Boston Bulldogs in front of 700 to 800 fans was obviously different from playing for Liverpool in front of the Kop and 40,000 passionate Reds.

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Father Time catches up with us all.

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Landon Donovan has always been about being the focal point of the team.

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The coaching staff expected us to show up on time, give it our all and leave nothing out there. By all means play hard but work harder. That was part of the Liverpool Way.

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Eat like a horse? Fine, just not six bags of crisps on a matchday!

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If you've got Godin and Chiellini as your centre-backs, then you can have more attacking full-backs, as opposed to defensive ones.

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When you're a head coach there's never a minute of the day when you're not thinking about your team. But when things aren't going well any problems are just accentuated.

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I loved room service.

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I do my best every day that I come to work.

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Winning covers a lot of bad things.

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Both my parents were keen golfers and Dad was such a creature of habit that he didn't see much of me at Ayr United because he always played a round on Saturdays. He was an old-school parent of his time and I've no complaints.

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I love the way managers and coaches can spin people signing a new contract into telling us it's a transfer, 'these are our transfers.'

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Players when they're linked with Real Madrid, their eyes light up.

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Most players want to follow a pattern, especially when they're doing well, and when it goes wrong, they start looking for other patterns to do.

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When Jose Mourinho went to Real Madrid many moons ago, he no question was the man, but he turned them into a defensive side. He went to Chelsea, won the league and all of a sudden he's on the up again. The following year, complete and utter dismay and then he turned Manchester United into a side that finished sixth.

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That's part of Jurgen Klopp's job, is to psychologically find out how to get his players playing.

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You are going to lead a miserable life if you only do it for the money. You are never going to be happy.

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Sometimes you just need bodies in the squad.

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If you are coaching kids, the smile on a kid when he does the right thing, when he puts the ball in the net, that's the reward right there.

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When you're signing an older player, part of it is can he help the rest of the team with his professionalism, with the way he goes about training every day?

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I'm very thankful to the Krafts for giving me the opportunity to be their head coach. I've had some great times and been involved with some great players and great people.

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I left Liverpool during the 1993-94 season to join Notts County as a player-coach under Howard Kendall.

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It doesn't get any more basic than your backline closing when there's no pressure on the ball. It really is a huge problem if you get it wrong.

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Unless you've been in the job as a head coach, and certainly at the Premier League level and elite level, it's stressful. You're responsible for everything. You're responsible for how the team plays, if they don't turn up you're responsible for that, your job is to get them playing.

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Man United under Fergie were about winning Champions League titles and winning Premier League titles.

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Be prepared for every eventuality, both at Liverpool Football Club and in life.

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Mourinho criticised Eden Hazard for not doing his defensive duties. Eden Hazard is the type of player that you take that responsibility off.

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Let me tell you, when you play for a team that has the teammates and fans that Liverpool have then you always have a soft spot for them. It never leaves you.

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As great as Sadio Mane is, John Barnes is one of the best players I have ever played with - and I've played with a lot of good players at Liverpool.

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Winning is the deodorant of the game, it covers all bad smells.

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Part of playmaking is communication, when you have nobody on the field talking, particularly when you are under pressure, it becomes twice as hard.

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When it comes to Real Madrid, anything's possible.

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Two of my most important signings were made at the beginning of 2004. I took 20-year-old Clint Dempsey with the eighth pick of the MLS SuperDraft and added 51-year-old ex-Arsenal striker Paul Mariner as my assistant on a free transfer from Harvard University, where he'd been coaching.

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I've always felt I've made a contribution wherever I've been.

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I know the 'Have a nice day' attitude gets mocked but I like America's positivity. When I go back to Scotland folk seem so miserable.

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Oh it kills me to see Liverpool lose.

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