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Jürgen Klopp

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“It class obviously, and English people in professional football enjoy D-Day a bit more than probably in other countries. So that's what I didn't get that to a full extent, but I learned a lot about the excitement of a good transfer window.”
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“So Richard Ewes is now there doing an incredible job. So these kind of things, in idle world, so like people from outside are idolizing. Sometimes people definitely some of them with me and they do with Michael, but Michael never did a job alone. I never did a job alone. It was always like a really good work together just really well. We didn't have a lot of... Disagreements where you think where is that coming from? Why you want him? It's a process. And football team is an open book everybody can read it every day. So if you want to add something, it should not be a surprise to everybody. I think, well, where's that idea coming from? You think we need a left back? Why? We have already for it. That doesn't happen. It's a work on progress all the time during a season, but the transfer windows.”
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“First and foremost, I don't want to say anything because I really have a really good relationship. Mike Evans is absolutely great in what he's doing, but it was not on one day his job alone to bring in players. There were a lot of other Jury Board, Ian Graham, so many people that were involved in Berry Hunter, all these kind of things were involved in these kind of things. It was a process. We were really close together. It's not one sitting there and being the genius and producing ideas and anything. Oh my God. He's available. I didn't even know him. Like we know football players. He's like negotiating, finding the right moment to sell, finding the right moment to buy that sporting director's job, what he was before. And now I don't even know exactly the role.”
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“That anybody in a club would bring in a player you don't agree on. That's not possible. But it's very, very normal in a football coach manager's life that you don't get all the players you want. So no problem with that. As long as the transfer window is open, you try to create, build the best possible squad. the day after the transfer window, you have the best possible squad, whichever transfers you made. And that's the way you go into the rest of the season.”
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“Remember the first when I came and told me about a transfer committee? I never had, they told me that the journalists asked me because they implemented a transfer committee because they didn't want to manager's dead decisive in a transfer window obviously before me there were some issues. Is there no problem with that? I can discuss with everyone, as long as no player signs for the club I don't want. I'm used to not getting all the players I want. That's completely normal. It's not up to the coaches. We say we need one-to-player. And I say, yeah, it's too expensive. Now you can ask again, sorry, can we make it happen? And knowing they are trying everything to get the right price and get the player in, you cannot do anything with that.”
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“Same. I could say the same. I could say the same about him. I was as impressed. His presence, very special, very special. Young man Ashton.”
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“For the things you have to deal with without knowing at all, you cannot be prepared to deal with things like that. And today we talk about the transfer of intern, if you want, of Liverpool. That would have looked completely different. So you have to sort the things you never expected, yet you have to think about. Everybody won the disboy to play the next. years at Liverpool, all-around player, all positions, can play football smart.”
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“I got a message in a morning Boss I have bad news and then I got a message from a friend from Liverpool I couldn't believe it. It was not possible. I heard it and know what it means, but I couldn't believe it. The whole story, I saw all the pictures obviously from the wedding and all the boys were there and stuff like that and it was so It was only before that I know exactly where I was. I was exactly how long I sat there without speaking a word. It is a family member. It is exactly like that. So, look, it's really like that. It's an example.”
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“There was him, and dealing with that as a on a personal level not easy impossible. And now as a club, take all the emotional stuff out and think, how do we replace him? And you have to think about that. Wow. That's difficult. Impossible, I would say. And now we judge the transfer window where they buy the players. There was not a plan, I'm pretty sure. That he had to Replaced”
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“He sits in a dressing room, and I cannot imagine right now the dressing room without him being there. That's so hard. I still cannot speak properly about it. It's really like that. It was an incredible shock. And that's for the boys as well. And I don't could think, we don't speak about it because otherwise some bad journalists make a story of it what I said about him and what it means. Nobody at Liverpool will ever use it as an excuse. It is the situation. You walk every day in this room where he was omnipresent. He was. Can you imagine to talk about Timmy? He was so close with James Milner. They are not the same age group. They are nothing the same. It's just on the other side very close with Costa Simicas. That's like Mount and Moon and Mars.”
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“It was the saddest day of last year and how do you? Replace somebody like Jogo. It's not about the player itself, it's about the guy he was. He was good with absolutely everybody, absolutely everybody. He arrived, he had no real, I think he was a bit surprised that we approached him, that we asked for him, and then he came and then he delivered from day one. I remember still when I saw him the first time playing for Wolves, he said, what's that? When I went to the, you always hear these stories when people tell me, and it's true that Mossala, they had to convince me and stuff like this, not convinced that I take him, but it was like other players as well. And Mob was one of the others. And we decided all together for more. But it's fine. But this, nobody came to me and told me, come on, let's have a look at Yoga Jotta. I saw him and I said, please, give me more material. I have to see him. And that's, and he excelled all the expectations as a guy super smart, super, super teammate.”
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“be always and it was the idea we always were able to beat the best team and that was the idea because that's a constant thing the next best the next best we can beat you we can beat you be the best you know you are the one everybody wants to beat i love that so that's net spend and stuff like this i was never too worried about we had all these conversations yeah i was i was happy with how it was i couldn't have discussions with people i cannot decide how much money we spent it's not just not possible on a slot cannot decide how much money liverpool spent that's how it is there are other people who decide that and if you have the money then you spend for really good players what liverpool did this year and i think it was it was the right thing to do and I'm pretty sure One specific moment changed the whole transfer window.”
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“Not enough. So, yeah. What's the public perception that I didn't ask for the money? That's probably not right. I probably had these conversations, but I didn't ask in a way if you don't get it. can do it. It's not my job to think about how much we can squeeze out of whatever area. I felt massively respond. My idea was always with the boys we have. The best team you can be And you were right when you said we were maybe not the best team. I think there was a period when. Played football, you could have thought that's maybe the best played by the best team. I don't know exactly between 18 and 20, there was a pretty long spell.”
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“If to young Senderhalf is not getting injured, it's the perfect squad. He's injured. That doesn't help. Then you might be a majority understand the half position besides that. It's a perfect squad. Two super left backs, really super right back. So it's just a really good football. But that's how you set the team up. And now we have to deal with the situation. They all think they have to start the game, but that's the normal job. It's not that difficult or that's the normal job. You have this discussion who will start a week or two in the third week. One is injured and you're happy that the other can start. So that's the world football manager is living in. So we don't have to worry about what's that. I'm really interested. So you don't have to worry about Liverpool. They will be fine.”
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“Is Agus, an incredible striker, incredible striker Floverti Orb will eat your words if you have the use the wrong word or is an incredible talent and to get the incredible player. Just the offensive place. It's a really, really, really good, well”
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“Much as I can, it's not my first target because I have to win football games with my team, but I want that a club benefits from the time we were together after we left. I want that.”
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“I love the fact that we were as successful as we were and built new stands and build a training ground because we talk now about a transfer window and the way you want to talk about it, spend a lot of money, but there's no discussion about the stance and no discussion about the training ground. They are second to none, the training ground. The stance are wonderful. And at the same place where Enfield is, they could build pretty much a new stadium without leaving the old one. So that's a fantastic story. And that will stay forever. Maybe at one point they decide the cop could be even for more people or whatever. I don't know if that ever will happen. But you could do stuff there. And that's what I love about this. I think I really want.”
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“I had no clue that this is possible. Nobody ever told me that it's possible that we can spend like that. My last year Liverpool, so we obviously... The Adidas Deal, the new stadium, all these kind of things, yeah, there are more money. But it was never ever I could have asked for the amount of money. But that's not a problem. That time, it was not there, no problem at all, really not.”
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“The other teams don't sleep that's how it is, and to become chem, you need luck in moments here and there. That's how it is nobody wants to hear that. But crossbar, over the line, not over the line, all these kind of things this can go in your direction or in the other direction. So it's all fine. And we discuss the situation now like it's a struggle, surprise. We take the money and throw it against them. 450 million. But they earned 20 million as well. So it's all fine if you're with Liverpool and only these people are really, there's only people who matter. If you are with Liverpool, you trust them and they do the right. They did the right stuff. They do the right things. So work on it and become the best football team this team can be.”
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“And change always has an impact, and change always needs time, but people talk then about, yeah, but this, if that's not like that, he keeps us exactly the same team like us. Yeah, Darwin Union is still there. Luis Diaz is still there as an example. So they start playing it, we'll have problems. Say, yeah, we need a change. So now they are not there anymore. The new guys are there and they are really, really good players. It's not working out. Yeah, why? Why it's not working? needs time, then nobody can change that. And people need to adapt to situations, need to adapt to things and all these kind of things. So it's all good. It's all in place. What you have at Liverpool this year has to be in the competition, in the decisive moments, and then they have to be ready to go for it. There's no guarantee that you then will win it again. That doesn't happen just like this. You cannot be champion, spend money and be championed again.”
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“But that's not a problem, that's just completely normal. It doesn't mean exactly that today. There was a lot of change. No team, by the way, it's 450-year-old, whatever million, I don't know the exact numbers, but they earned a lot of money as well.”
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“From a problem, it turns into your problem and a wing. So SortNet and all the rest as well. So you need this kind of, I love that about RNET as you came in and took over and he knew he got a good team. Yes, it was. And he did a perfect job.”
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“I want us to play like this, or if that's not possible, I want to play like this, or I want to be completely different. That doesn't work. Being a football manager is already a challenge with all the different things you have to do. Being a football manager in such a competitive league like the Premier League is a real challenge. Being a football manager in the world we are living in with media Social media and all these kind of things, it's an incredible challenge. Believe me, you have no clue what's coming up the next day. You think oh my God, where's that coming from? Who was that? Oh my player. You read a story, whatever, and all of a sudden you think.”
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“Radically changing things. But that's what Anna Slot would say himself. I think he said it that super smart so it's not about what Arle wants to show the world what he can do it's about how to get the best out of this team and that's exactly what he did not changing much means he changed a little bit we became third a year before so there's not a lot you have to change but a few decisive things you have to change and all of a sudden you win the league by some distance so that's what it is not that he has to put his new own stamp this team was was good in a lot of ways but we didn't win the year before so then that's what his what his job was and he did that in an incredible impressive manner so and that's all you want and you need people who have the confidence to do these kind of things because it doesn't make sense if you have a manager who is not 100% sure about the things he wants to do and”
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“Super, super good guy. Oh my god, what a team. Oh, thanks a lot, Baba, all these kind of things. Yeah, and he made a best. He got the best out of this team and they became champion in an incredible manner, to be honest. And I'm really, really happy about that. So that's all. That's all. It's all about, it shows again, it's all about how you see it. You can see you step into my footsteps, how you call it. You take over a fantastic football team.”
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“You can gather maybe he wants the next guy not to do it while there is shouting, oh my god, he did that, he did that, he did that. And I don't need that. I want Liverpool to do well. I want Liverpool to win what they did. So what I liked a lot about Arnett, and Arnold didn't hesitate, what you said now, these shoes, Arnold didn't have that problem. He thought, okay, that's a great club. That's a great team. And he's right. It was a fantastic club and it's a fantastic team. stepped into that. We had a lot of contact after that. He was super...”
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“Couple of things. First and foremost, I thought a Say what I had to say when I announced my exit, if you want, my retirement, whatever you want to call it, at the time when people judge that wrong moment, blah, blah, blah, whatever. And they cannot change that. The first find the feeling was, I have to say that. You have to finish the season as good as somehow possible in Ileworth. You win something, we couldn't do that for whatever reason And then you have to make sure because that's still something you have to do. You have to try. Make it as easy as somehow possible for the guy who's coming after you. That's what I tried as well. I wanted to. All to do incredibly well. Also, if somebody is not doing it that way, it's a first...”
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“If we give our absolute everything now, we meet in 10, 15 years, look back, and we think it was the best we could have done. It's the absolute best we could have done. And I think that's how my view on life is as well. All the other stuff is just sorting the problem in front of you. Something we have to sort, but when you sort, you think about what's the effect for the rest. And that's what some people, some clubs maybe don't want to see because the pressure is too big just to make sure, okay, tomorrow at least they will not write. We have no clue. Tomorrow at least they will say they found a solution. And then we can think about the next day or whatever.”
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“You have to understand the community. I mean, the community, just the city community, and it's a bigger community around the world. There are so many people. And this club went through a lot, not as the only club in the world. But come on, for that moment, we just think about ourselves, went through a lot. The reaction to these situations was always exceptional, to be 100% honest. And that's what you have to understand, what you have to learn. This club means more to the people than just football. So you have to understand. And that's why what we do is more important than it maybe is somewhere else. That's the responsibility we always took and understood 100%. Our boy, the players understood, to play for Liverpool is not just a club where you play during your career. It's the club and it's something you will definitely remember for life. So that we try to make sure that the boys understand.”
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“The results we had were just incredible. It's just amazing. Not all of them. And I love the bonels as much as I do all the others. The Jamsteak file was the worst file of all the four my teams played. But we won it. Would I take? Would I change, okay, let's the other three as well. So a little bit the performance in other games was really good, but we lost. So here we are was not fantastic, but we won. All fine. It's about the result. But if you have a result and another result, it has to lead to really good football at one point, as good as possible for your specific team. You want to stay in the league? Do it with good football. You want to qualify for Europe. Do it with good football because we are there for the people. It's not there that we just go home and the people think, oh, it's unwatchable. I'm not sure I come next week again. That's not fair.”
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“Realistic target is to stay in the leak. A one hill is a wonderful result, but we talk about a club like Liverpool. We are bigger than that. You have to win each football game when you are manager of Liverpool. That's what people, that's not that before the season anybody thinks, oh 38 games. Oh, it makes sense. More than 100. Nobody had ever. So it's not like that. But still, each defeat and each draw is like, how could that happen? And that's why you have to play in a specific way. Not all clubs have the same things to do, but the top clubs, they have to win all the games. And when you have the chance, you win them clear. You win them with the proper result stuff like this. You have to make the people enjoy the football you play. And I love to do that. I loved it. Honestly, it's like the games we played.”
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“Happens, that happens in games. You realize, okay, we call the goal about today's days. Come on, let's get it over the line. That happens. But it cannot be the target or the purpose for the next game again. Let's do it like that. Not for there are clubs if you only...”
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“And against United, we Now, you can cut it out. No, it's, yeah, of course important. So if you have your backpacked going to stadium as a player, if you have your boots and if you have a wear shirt, if you're like, don't waste time with anything than giving you all. There's no guarantee to get anything, but the only chance to get something. So give you all. First until last minute, you have to understand this game is only that fun for us because all the people are watching it. That's why we earn the money. I mean it. I know that's what people want to hear, but we earn the money because everybody's interested in it. Everybody wants to see it, knows about it, reads everything about it, all these kind of things. And for that, with all the stories around, the only thing we really have to deliver is give your absolute all in a game like that, whatever, whichever game is there. 5.30, 230, 330, whenever the game starts. Give you...”
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“Wherever I was. I loved what they did. So that's what I carried through the week. I didn't tell them. I told them I want to be your friend. I cannot be your best friend because I'm the one who tells you off very often. And they'll tell you this is not right. This is not right. But the feeling, the general feeling was I love them. In my mind, my ex-players, I love them all. And some of them don't love back, let me say like that, probably for some reasons or whatever. But that doesn't mean anything to me. I love my clubs.”
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“Don't waste time with holding back I don't understand it we have nothing to do the ninety minutes, 95 minutes whatever We had to learn. I had to learn to manage games. Inside me until the last date was like come on, come on, try. But then I grow up and I got more mature and stuff like this. It was like, okay, come on, hold the ball, control the ball. All the things you at one point you do, you learn at any time on your journey. And that's how it is. And I love the game so much and could play it not that good that I was so happy that I could work with these outstanding players. couldn't i loved it i enjoyed it so much seeing them doing what they're doing i was i was number one supporter of my team”
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“I said a lot of things, but it's like I said, it was not in my mind that I thought you want to play heavy metal football. They asked me about Arzen Wanger on the comparison and they think we are similar in a way. And I thought, what Arsene and I now come on, don't be disrespectful to Arsene. I'm a young Baba Ba man from somewhere. But if you want to compare us, then I'm not sure that's possible because Arsen's football is rather like an orchestra. And my team plays a little bit more like a heavy metal band. But that was the first day when I thought about my team, I got heavy metal band.”
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“If you don't learn from a defeat, it's a real defeat. If you learn from it, it's a very, very important information. And that's how I always understood it. So I had enough opportunities to learn, really. I lost more Champions League finals than most people play. It's not a great thing to say. It's the truth anyway.”
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“I tell you what, this was only the start. We only all together since six months. This is not the last final we're playing. This is the first final we played. Okay, we lost international final we lost. No problem. We go again. And I went on the dance floor. It was a dance floor. And I said, all coming. And we saying, we are Liverpool. I mean, I had a few parties after finals we lost. And I always thought I don't waste time at all on not being happy about what we achieved over the whole year because qualifying for a final is a real achievement. Losing it is not great, but until then everything was fine. And I never accepted that we ignore the rest. So we have a party. And then we went on to a chief. Things and we need a bit of time obviously but it was okay.”
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“It always is there's a party after the game. So you cannot organize a party, but you also know if you lose who wants to go to the party. So I was a new manager, yes, not bad new anymore, seven, eight months in or so. Realize some players aren't there, but it wasn't a team hotel. So I called them, told them, all here. Come on, come downstairs. Oh, boss, really.”
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“I loved it so much. They loved it so much. It's easy. They're all top fit. They want to run. So just show them which direction and it goes. And then we developed step by step our own way of football. Brought players in step by step. But we got stable pretty quickly, not as much as we wanted. I think we became six, seventh, eighth. I don't even know first season, two finals. Great. Lost both. Not great. But then we knew each other and we loved working together with this group, brought in super players, really super, super players, super character super players. What can you do? We lost it. We lost the European League final in Basel.”
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“Make sure that you are stable. If you're stable, that means that the other team, whatever they try, it's not easy for them to get through and should just finish. I don't like that. If you can avoid that, do it. Because we are people. What we now realize a few times is not easy. If they have five, six chances after each other, opportunities after each other, then it's like that you don't feel great. Nobody placed his best football if each attack of the opponent ends in the arms of your goalie. That just doesn't work. So how can we do that? And stability is to organize the team. That's number one, two, and three on the to-do list of a successful manager. And that's what I did. We organized. And then we told them to run their socks over. People have to show the people that you want to change something. You have to show the people that you want to achieve something. How we can tell, I can tell them, but in the end, you have to show them. So run. And they went for it.”
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“If you don't have time to change football, do you mean honor genius and we cannot go there and show them a little bit past the ball here passable there? And if you pass the ball back again, you can shoot alone in front of the goal. That doesn't work like that. I'm 100% convinced if you have to.”
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“Obviously, we lost a lot of finals. That means we played a lot of finals. That means we played all the games until the end of the season, which is a lot. So there's not really time to train and really develop things. So you have to use each little moment to implement a specific idea we all can buy into. And that's what we did. I loved our first game against Tottenham. Simon Minure had to make a few good, really good saves, but they had to do as well. And that year Tottenham was really strong there. We became second behind Leicester, I think. That was that season. And that's a start. What are those little...”
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“Yeah, jump in their face and let's see what we get for it. So it's not organized. It's like we started with an organized chaos. So I gave them a few ideas about where we have to put them under pressure. And in that moment, now do it. And afterwards, we talk about it, how it worked out, because there was no time to train. Anyway, we had no time. A week after we played European League, I think in the midweek and then you play again. No, it's like you are in a rush. a coaching career with all the games you have to play if you really want to a top team especially if you really want to develop a style of football you are set up to fail because it's like you have no time in the preseason there's no their players are everywhere playing big tournaments blah blah blah and you come two weeks before the season starts into your camp so let's drive let's go from here then you play top teams play every three days from a specific day on”
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“So the A year before, and not in that season, but two years before, they nearly became chairman. It was a different team. And it was a very specific way of football offensively. Oh my God, they were ridiculously good. Defensively lucky, good goalie there, stuff like this, was not the same. So we didn't have the team from that time. We didn't have Suarez. We didn't have Sterling. Dennis Storage, stuff like this, but it was different team, complete different. I arrived there. I had five strikers. How do we deal with that? But it was fine and there was so much quality. It wasn't really sort of. So the first thing I... Find a way to make sure that they understand that we have a chance to win an expo game. We have to do a couple of things for that. For Tottenham, three days time to train.”
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“We didn't really speak about that in the first conversation. That's nothing I need to talk about in this kind of conversation. I know the job I had in that moment was just to improve the football team, not the club that I was involved in all the other stuff happened with time, just that we realized this is my responsibility now as well. You never know. I don't plan seven, eight, nine-year spells in a club. It just happens. It's like they could second me, but I know could happen. So I plan from a specific moment on when I sorted the first few things, then I plan mid and long term or always did, knowing it might not be for me. But I was never worried about that too much.”
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“I went into the shiny room. I played there a year before with Dortmund in the summer, in the preseason. And Massively disappointed about the dressing rooms. I remember you have these pictures in your mind and think, oh my God, it's envy. And you all gain and make two steps into the dressing room when you run against a wall and you think. Kidding, is that all? Where's the rest? So English dress rooms really, really small in the old stadium that we think, oh my God, how can you bring it? It was built for 11 players and now we come here with 30 people in that room doesn't help. So I knew about the history. I knew that nobody's happy. I knew that I like the team. That's a good start”
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“So it needs time. So Liverpool, the team, as I said when I came, nobody likes the team. Not even the team likes the team. I like the team. Do I like the team? I knew the players. I thought when Bobby Ferminia moved there, I said, oh, that's a smart transfer. I know Christian Bentek. I love Dibok O'Reigi. I knew John Hennessy. I knew Adam La. I know plenty of players and heard only kind of good enough. And I thought, well, let's see. So I like the team. So that's the football team. Proper football is super attitude. I mean, just on day one, I could have played hand over Millie and Adam together in midfield. Maybe I did. I don't even know if my first lineup, but it's a proper engine room. It's smart players. It's people who really want to perform, want to work hard and all this kind of things. What you need for a start. I knew Liverpool was not the same club than they were before.”
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“Oddest situation. I knew the club, I knew the team. So if you look at on top of that, I didn't think it that way. But when Alex left, they became champion in his last year, but it was not that the team was the one who built a future on. So that's how it is. When you come in, it's a bit built to fail. But I didn't see it that way. In that time, it had other reasons. But if I would have thought longer about it, it would have been probably. So David Moy is some fantastic, fantastic manager, what he proofs every year, couldn't do the job. And since then, it's a bit of a problem. So a new team needs time.”
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“Thank you. But it's your choice how you grow together again. And I think after all the years now without a lot of good football, they need to find a way to grow together again.”
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