Very few Liverpudlians will have known much about Pako Ayestarán when he arrived as part of Rafa Benitez’s backroom team in the summer of 2004. “Arriving to Liverpool was a dream come true because I fell in love already with Liverpool in 1975”, he recalled. Our first priority at any new club was to convince the players of the importance of being professional full-time. "One of the things that I felt Rafa killed himself with was Pako Ayestarán. “It was a time when we really missed the stabilising presence of Pako Ayestarán.

Source: Express February 07, 2022 00:02 UTC