The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are.

The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.

I listen to the phone-ins on the way home and I know how the fans feel.

There`s no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment.

Obviously the fans are very important to me, in fact they mean everything to me and they are the people I try to please when I play.

Even now I can say I`d love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.

My message to the fans would be that hopefully I can continue to perform as consistently as I have done this season and lift a trophy for them soon.

I`ll admit, it gives me a real buzz when I hear my name being chanted and that feeling is the same now as it was when I first broke into the team.

Hopefully it`ll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I`m not really a superstitious person.

I`ve got absolutely no intention of ever going to play at another club.

I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.

I think it all goes down to who plays the better football on the night.

I watched Italia `90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.

I`m a fan myself and I`m frustrated just as much as them when we get beat.

We`ve proved a lot of people wrong so far but the job is not finished yet and if we come home from Istanbul empty handed then it would be a disaster.

It will be a dream come true if I can go there and lift it.

The fans have played a massive part in getting us to where we are, but the job`s not finished.

Against Juventus we were massive underdogs, so to beat them was fantastic.

To me it`s the best trophy you can win and to bring it back for all them fans that have supported us right through would be something special.

I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it`s something I really enjoy.

But I it doesn`t matter who scores the goals so long as we win.

This club is all about winning trophies and we`ve got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously.

But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we`re enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.

We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.

I think we`ve got a lot players in the squad who are more suited to European football at the moment.

Earlier on in the season I`d have been very surprised to think we could win this competition because there were some fantastic teams in it.