He told the club's website: "I could have grown up here, definitely.
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"I'm not a city person, I'm obviously from the countryside so if I don't say hello to the lady in the street, when I arrived at home she'd call my mum and say, 'what's wrong with your boy?'. So that would never happen in a big city. But a little bit... Liverpool kept that.
"The main thing is still the people - the togetherness, the connection, the heart - I knew I will love being here. It became home for us and that's pretty special and we feel really blessed and privileged we got that opportunity."