Pako Ayestaran is Liverpool's Assistant Manager and moved with Rafael Benitez from Valencia in the summer of 2004.
 
Ayestaran has been by Benitez's side since their days together at Tenerife and is instrumental in planning training on a daily basis at Melwood and organising the physical work of the team.

"Training is very important," he says. "I think that no matter how fit players think they are, the same eleven can't play every game. For me, training is the most important thing. It is our job to make the players understand how important the training is and sometimes players come to me and say that they have played too much and need to train. When they say this, you know they truly understand.

"I think now the players have more belief in us and are more convinced about what we are doing and trying to achieve. You can see in training that the things that they are doing are the right things to be successful. The most important thing is not to win; it's to prepare yourself to have the capacity to win. It is not about wanting to do something; it is simply having the capacity to do what you want. Then, and only then, can you achieve your goals but to do this, you need to work very hard."