Swansea City manager Steve Cooper has revealed former Liverpool duo Kenny Dalglish and Joey Jones have been two of the biggest influences on his career in football.
The 39-year-old faced the media on Tuesday for the first time since being named as Graham Potter's successor at the Liberty Stadium.
Cooper discussed his vision for the Swans as well as his philosophies and plans for the club's future.
And the former Wrexham, Liverpool and England youth coach has revealed Jones and Dalglish - as well as Pep Segura - have played key roles on his development in the game.
“I've been fortunate. It's been well documented my time with Pep Segura, who is now back at Barcelona, and there's no doubt that he's had a big influence on how I currently work," said the Swansea boss.
"But I'm very much my own man. I have been lucky to be influenced by Pep, to work with Kenny Dalglish at Liverpool and see how a real icon behaves with so much status.
"I was lucky in my times at Wrexham, I got a good grounding, so I had lots of good influences.
"My family will be my biggest influence on me but I am my own man, and all those experiences have allowed me to become that. And everything that we do this season which has come from my input, it will be from me and what I fundamentally believe in.
"Of course you need to learn off people and you need to get some ideas that set you on a path. Everything that I'll bring with me, in terms of my belief and my methodology, will be stuff that I fundamentally believe in.”
And on Wrexham legend Jones - who won 72 caps for Wales - Cooper said: "We did a lot of work together. It was just the natural thing to do, I wasn't even close to making it at Wrexham (as a player).
"They were having Academy status at the time, and I managed to do some part-time coaching.
"I fell in love with coaching and was playing for Bangor City at the time but I was more interested in going into coaching than playing. I knew I've got to try and carve a path here for coaching.
"I was fortunate they gave me a full-time job, ended up staying there and headed up the youth department.
"I worked with some amazing people - Neil Taylor came through, Chris Maxwell and lots of others still playing in the League.
"Often the important days are the first ones because that's when you make your mistakes. Coaching twice a day, locking up, and going back the next day. I look back really fondly on those days, they were important days."
