Trent, Liverpool top of the Premier League, top of the pile in the Champions League. It sounds good, it must feel very good?

Of course, this is where we want to be. It is still early days, so we can't get too excited. But if you told us this at the start of the season, we'd have massive smiles on our faces. We're in a very, very good position, very strong position - more so in the league than the Champions League because it then becomes knockout football and what you've done so far doesn't really matter. We just need to stay consistent over the next few months and put ourselves in the best position possible.

You said, if I told you this reality at the start of the season, there'd have been massive smiles. Surely it's all gone better than anyone could have possibly imagined?

You don't really tend to imagine. You especially don't imagine a bad scenario where you're struggling and you're not picking up results and you're struggling to find form. But you also never imagine you'll be so far ahead at such an early stage in the season.

Especially with a big transition because historically we've seen when a great figure leaves a football club, it's so hard to replace the manager and the stature around him. Yet it's been so seamless for Liverpool…

Yeah, I think probably one of the reasons why it's gone so smooth is that no one's really tried to fixate on what we were. It was more: 'we're something new; we're a new organism now'. Everything's changed. You don't really look back in the past and think, well, this is how we have done this.

This is how we did that. This is the manager's new way, and you roll with it and you get behind it and you get used to it. That's what we've done as a team from day one, to be honest.

Did you guys speak amongst yourselves as players about that?

We never so much spoke about it as a team, but it was the senior players in the team that send the message and set the tone of how it's going to be. So the fact that we all bought into it straightaway meant that everyone had to. I think that's something that may have helped the transition as well.

It's only human and normal though when Jurgen left to be thinking: 'What happens now? What comes next?' It's an unknown because the era was so great and was over a long period of time. Did you have any of that kind of nervousness?

I wouldn't say nervousness. I would just say you don't know how it's going to be or what it's going to look like. For such a long time you've always known where you stand and how things and you're just so accustomed to the way that we play and your role within that.

You don't find yourself worrying, but it's more just you think about how big of a change it might be. Is it going to change everything? Are we going to completely forget everything we've done in the last eight years and adopt a brand new playing style? Is your whole lifestyle going to change? Are we going to start training at different times? You don't know. So, you are kind of just thinking about how much is actually going to change. But the change hasn't been too drastic, to be honest. Things have changed, but we've all enjoyed them and are enjoying them.