Liverpool assistant manager Pep Lijnders has explained leaving the club.
Linjders will follow manager Jurgen Klopp out of Anfield at the end of the season.
He told liverpoolfc.com: "It's not easy, leaving such a club. But in life I feel always you have to do the right thing and the right thing means that in the summer we said we continue and we go with all we have, we make it 'the Last Dance', we make it like a proper ending. Not knowing that it would be that season but knowing that the project is coming to an end. I felt that with the back-up of the ownership, signing the right players, we are just going back to basics.
"No negativity: I said it as a joke in pre-season that everybody who is or shows one sign of negativity, I will punch them in the head! Just to make sure that we go and draw a line, we go with a clean sheet. That's always good, that you see it as just one season to go and with the new energy boys, with a few main ones leaving – but that created [a situation] that other boys had to step up – we were in the right frame to attack the season and then with time we do well, and it's really nice that we can make this decision early so we leave the club with a squad who is full of hunger, full of talent, a lot of leadership as well, who can, for the next years, be really successful."
Asked how difficult a decision it has been, he also said: "Yeah, 10 years of the club and my boys don't know anything else, they are Scousers. I owe this club everything. They don't owe me anything, to be honest. It's 10 years full of dedication. I always said I will finish with Jürgen; the moment I will not assist anyone else, that's the moment I will go and I will manage. That was always the case.
"So when we spoke, it was clear for me: OK, then I go and manage, and we end this project together [that] we started. But yeah, it's not easy. My boys, my wife; my boys are two proper Scousers and their whole life they will be. Maybe posh ones! But still! I cannot say thank you enough to everybody involved. I'm grateful. Mike [Gordon] and myself had a good talk later, I'm really grateful for that and that makes me [feel] as well that I can leave the club consciously."
