"Joining City is not something that will ever happen. When you have got red blood, you cannot see yourself with blue blood. You go there and they have blue ketchup... it's just like `What are they doing?'

"I am not being disrespectful but I grew up a Red, hating City. When I go back with Everton I get absolutely slaughtered.

"It makes me laugh in a way because I understand what they are feeling."