Bellamy: "I used to hound Rushie all the time when I was 18 and 19 and around the Welsh squad. Basically I was telling him he was my hero, and he used to say 'yeah, cheers for that'. I was just a kid at the time, but he had a big part in me joining Liverpool.
"He has said some nice things about me in his newspaper columns, they came at the right time. I appreciate that. He was my hero as a kid and I cannot thank him enough.
"I am always going to be labelled as a player with baggage, it's one of those things. I can say, 'look, I'm a really nice guy' but people will say what they want to say.
"All I can do is try as hard as I can to improve, the only thing I really care about is to try to make my team better and how I work around the training ground.
"I have played for some big clubs, but what I am missing is trophies and that is what I aim to put right here. Otherwise it will all be a bit of a failure."