Former Liverpool assistant boss Paco Herrera has lifted the lid on manager Rafa Benitez's overhaul of the club.
Herrera was a vital member of his original quartet of assistants that also included Paco Ayestaran, Jose Manuel Ochotorena and Alex Miller.
Herrera said: "Rafa lives football 24 hours a day, that's the first detail.
"He has faith in his coaching staff and we had a great team of people. In the first two years we played five finals and we won three. It was an excellent group of people. We met every morning to prepare the work of the week and the work of the day.
"We studied the rivals we were going to face. Benitez does not leave any room for improvisation and he himself supervises everything. It's true he has a database with information on more than 10,000 players.
"Everything started when we arrived there. I signed on as assistant manager but three months later my role changed because we all realised that there were serious problems in the technical department.
"Liverpool was very antiquated in that sense. So Rafa asked me to change my role and occupy myself with this issue. He wanted me to become the chief scout and start organising, along with himself, the technical department.
"It was when we started to sign up all the scouts - and from what I remember all the ones who started then are still there.
"All of them, or almost all of them, have had a direct professional relationship with Rafa - like Laurent Viaud, who was a player at Extremadura when Rafa was boss and is now a French scout.
"We started incorporating people from one country or another. As time went by Rafa proposed to create a personal database, apart from the one at the club which is also very interesting.
"So he created a personal one and that's where every day all the scouts from every country are putting information on all the players they are watching. I would say it would be closer to 14,000 players than 10,000."
Since Herrera left in the summer of 2006, Benitez's backroom set-up has also undergone a transformation.
Former players Sammy Lee and Mauricio Pellegrino, plus ex-Valencia and Atletico Madrid fitness coach Paco De Miguel, now hold the key positions.
Herrera also told The Sun: "What most people like at Anfield is to have an idea of play and a set pattern. Win or lose, the team plays with purpose and a pre-determined idea.
"What they value is the personality of Rafa. Professionals are respected there and Rafa is hugely respected.
"Bill Shankly is a myth for them - he is everything.
"But I think that Rafa, in those five years at least, will match what they consider Shankly to be."