Former Liverpool coach Pako Ayestaran is full of pride of his time at Anfield.

The ex-Valencia boss was Rafa Benitez's assistant at five clubs, including Liverpool.

“We helped English football evolve," he told MailOnline.

“The players were a bit surprised by the level of monitoring and control. We were taking decisions for them over many facets of where they'd been used to be left alone - diet, training, hours of sleep."