Lucas Leiva has committed his future to Liverpool and hopes to extend his contract with the Merseysiders which expires next year.
The midfielder also wants to re-establish the club in the top four of the Premier League and bring back the glory days of 2005 when the Reds claimed the Champions League.
"I have no reasons to go and I hope the club see things the same," he told The Guardian.
"It would be fantastic to play for Liverpool in the Champions League again and I don't see why we can't return.
"We have a squad that is united in its will and desire to return this club to where it belongs."
The Brazilian struggled to adapt to the Premier League when he initially moved from Gremio in 2007 and faced much criticism from the Liverpool faithful, which he felt was unfair.
Lucas believes the fans' expectations of him were heightened due to the country of his birth and the fact that the club had been in two Champions League finals in three seasons.
"Things were not looking good and some supporters were obviously not happy," he said on early life at Anfield. "I still think people need to see the bigger picture.
"The move to Liverpool represented a change of country, language and there was also that I was only 20 and arriving at the club in one of the most demanding leagues in the world.
"Also, few people seemed to remember Liverpool had a group of players that had made two of the last three Champions League finals. It would have been impossible to just parachute in.
"Maybe the supporters thought a Brazilian midfielder would do just magic."
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