Liverpool captain. Towards the end of chat on a humid night in Malaysia, it was put to him that here he was three years on from nearly being sold to Fulham and he was taking over the reins from Kop legend Steven Gerrard.“It's remarkable, isn't it?” was how he described it.
If that was remarkable then how do you describe the fact he is now a club icon in his own right as a European Cup and Premier League -winning captain?
Few can claim they saw it coming. Mainly, because it was a very different Liverpool then.Brendan Rodgers had been distant with the travelling media pack on the club's pre-season tour feeling, it appeared, unhappy with the criticism following a 6-1 defeat at Stoke which capped a disappointing campaign.There was little title.