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Jürgen Klopp

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“One needs more support and the other one you need to bring down a little bit. So all this kind of, that's how you work with people. In the end, what you want is that the job of a leader is to make the target, the aim, the final destination, whatever, that clear, like the sun that everybody's automatically going there and you don't have to push them every day and say, by the way, there's the sun, let's run there so that they know it. On the way there. Support them in different ways. It's not so important what I want to say. In a moment of anger or whatever it happens, emotion, do that to us, especially around a football game, you shout something. Did I really say that?”
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“Could be, could, that justice is not ready for training, had a drink last night, didn't sleep in half power, or you ask. So that's all what you think he looks like he didn't sleep enough. Ring him in, ask him, what's going on? And he will be surprised most of the time. They either slept enough or didn't sleep enough for the right reason because something happened and nobody could sleep. They had no drink, blah, blah, blah, but they lost focus right now because massive problems at home without asking will never find out. So here's one guy with a problem. Here's another guy. He's flying. Don't treat them the same.”
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“In a group, everybody accepts that they are different. Otherwise we are, I don't know, an army and they are different. But it's not just because we wear the same shirt. We have all our own qualities. To bring them to life or let them shine, yeah, you have to get treated in the right way. And that's what I love to figure out. How is that possible? That was the conversations I had, the conversation with players during a season. Of course there were football talks, but we had already enough meetings. The most important conversations were the private conversations. So when the player is not training well.”
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“out of the opposition team so that's everybody has to buy into that there's no no no no i always said if if you're not leon messi you have to defend you have you have to defend because i never had leon messy so they all had to defend for example everybody has to do that but then to get there that that they that they really grow together as a group”
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“So you have a young player as an example. So Trent Alexander comes up to the first team. And James Milner is already, I don't know, 31 or whatever he was that time. So James makes clear, first and foremost, that Trent doesn't go crazy because he sorts all these kind of things. But there are so many things. Just as an example, James doesn't have to do this and that because you know he is doing it anyway. So for Trent, you still have to educate the boy. This example, which you probably didn't think of, but it explains how different they are. They're different age groups, 1 is 16 or 17, and the other one is 33. So that shows already that it's not possible. So you are talking about the rules in football. So everybody has to work hard. Everybody has to do in my case. Everybody has to defend.”
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“I think in business, in life, it's the same. To lead as number one thing you lead yourself. So that's the first one. In the morning you stand up, you have to kick your own button and say, come on, it's not the great estate. But anyhow, we go And then the people you lead, you need to understand to do it properly. So no, that means you talk to them. You listen to them. You ask them, where are you from? What's your background? What are we doing here and there? And why did you do that and stuff like this? So it means it's already in that conversation, it's clear. Different to the other guy, it's not about the rules like punctuality You really pick the individual from where it stands, not from where you want it to be, no. Actually, where it actually is.”
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“Skill sets full of different talents, full of different personality. You want that because that's what you need. That's what makes you unpredictable. But then you put just one, I don't know, helmet over it and say, so that's for all of you. That's how we go. There are moments in a game where they have to act like this in all the other moments. They have to be themselves. So treat them like that.”
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“So players came to me, why do you treat me like that? You would never say that to him. No, because he's from Argentina, grew up without a window, and you are from Munich and everything was fine. You want me to treat you like him. Really? To bring all these people from different areas in the world together, you cannot expect that they all tick the same way. It's just not possible. Growing up in Germany is obviously different to growing up in It is different. But then we come together in our own dressing room and then everybody says, oh, this is the rule for all of you. And yeah, be in time, of course, for all easy. But then all the other starts. Come on, calm down. You want a football team. Full of different.”
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“That's not one part of the personality, but not the overwhelming or the most decisive or whatever. So it's like, and you need football is a football game, you need the cheeky ones as well. So you need them, the one who understands the street smart, you need as well. They get out of situations in life and on the pitch, stuff like this. So it's a mix of everything. That's what I loved about football teams. I treated them. 50% of the time completely the same and 50% what he needs what he needs what he needs but in front of the other teammates”
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“Which probably, yeah, cover problems you can have a great partner, married or not, and then everything is fine. It's the wrong partner. It's not great. You have no partner, not great for some, and you have too many. It's not great. So there are so many things in life. So I ever, never, never, never, Thought about that. I heard about it. I'd coaches Germany very successful manager Otto Rehagel. I love him to bits. Fantastic guy. He had as well. I think he said it once as well that he wants. Married players because they go home and stuff like this, man.”
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“Yes, of course. I don't just want to say I like people, and I'm super curious. Everybody has a story to tell, so I want to hear it.”
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“Massively, when I heard she's pregnant. I wanted to run away, go, oh God, it's not me. So the moment when I got aware of the fact that I will be a dad, I was really scared. The night 13th December of December 1988 when Mark was born was the night when I became an adult and the night who changed my life The right direction from that moment on I was always more an adult than all the other people in the In my age group. So they were the university, there were parties, I couldn't go. They went on holiday. I played football, low wages, third division Germany, had two other jobs, one in the morning, one at night, and playing semi-professional football that taught me the discipline I didn't have to learn at home because I had no jobs to do in the house. So I got it a bit later, but it made me the guy I am today.”
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“Oh, come on. Let's have a chat. Do you want to come to Frankfurt? That was the question. It was before that. Was 80 It is”
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“Oh my In my village, I was the best player in my village. So I scored the goals, I was the fastest, all this kind of this physical talent. I was really fast later on when I studied sports science, I could jump far, I could jump high, all these kind of things. So it was a physical talent. The problem was small spaces technique. That was my problem. What they saw probably is the attitude. I was a worry on the pitch. It was difficult to beat me, stuff like this to get kicked me out of the game or get me out of the game. I was really focused. I had a really good attitude for the game. But I didn't see it. So I was not happy. I was literally surprised by the approach from professional football clubs. I didn't think who's coming. So it was like the question was, are you number seven from the game before? Yeah.”
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“with my wife or with the kids or whatever. So it grew as a thought when you are a young man and you think what could you do with life? And for me it was clear I cannot earn my money with football because in my mind I wasn't good enough and then I got surprised by some people they thought there's something that could be interesting”
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“You know, it was always something I wanted to do. So in all this wonderful upbringing, it was pretty clear the money is an issue, not in a sense that we didn't have enough. We always had kind of enough. But I remember discussions, bad discussions about money, arguments if you want, who spent that, who spent that. I was the little one I just sat around and listened to it. But there was a moment in my life when I realized I have to earn a lot of money that I can sort at all. I wanted to earn money to not having this kind of discussions.”
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“I realized that my dad had, without knowing that time it was a skill he could speak publicly. You don't know that you have that, but I have it. Today I know it. I don't care if a camera is in my face or whatever. I say what I have to say in that moment without being too worried what might people think about it if I'm convinced it's right. And I say talking in public is not a problem, it's probably from him. My law for people. Unintentionally through my mom. So this makes of a very confident and a very caring, very confident dad and very caring mom. Is where I was brought up in the middle of it.”
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“It's true. Who knows if it was right? Probably it was right. I don't know. It was not nice in a way when you tell the story. It's like, my God, come on, let the poor boy win or whatever. He had no chance. It's just you stand on the touchline and you run to the halfway line.”
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“It's that long ago. I never got hit by whatever. Never, never, never. It was just he wanted to bring the best out of me. I think that was what he wanted. Tough in a way, yeah, how people who are brought up in that time probably, but not tough, endless that you thought you don't want to have to do anything with him. No, no, no. I loved him two bits and he loved me. He was very proud, but never said it. And these kind of things. He was a good guy. a really good guy but with his son he wanted him to be ambitious and was a bit afraid that I might be not ambitious enough so”
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“Take me out and say, go outside and play something. But then pretty quick, when I became better, it was never good enough. And that was the process. So that's how I was brought up. That's him. That's definitely. Can I keep these pictures? Of course you can keep that. That's good. Because I have them, but I'm not sure where. Yeah, exactly. Looking”
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“I think we all are who we are because the environment we grew up. My dad was a salesman and my mom came from a family. My grandma had a brewery and she worked there at Baha Bah and all these kind of things. But her only purpose was her kids. She loved me more than my own life, definitely. And my dad had expectations. He loved me as well, but he had expectations when my mom didn't. So my mom was just happy that I was there and my dad had always something where he was not really happy with. And all the things my dad wanted me to do, I loved doing. So he wanted me to be a sports guy, each sports. Tennis, skiing, football. That was his life. So he wanted that his son is good at that and I love doing it. If I would have been, I don't know, sitting at home and drawing over whatever, he would every day.”
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“I better go back to the start. My mom was very caring. She loved people and my dad had expectations. The problem was I was absolute useless in most of the things, even with football. My teammates were better than me. And I thought I only can get on that level if on the first until last minute I was a warrior on the pitch. But it made me the guy I am today. And so my team plays a little bit more like a heavy metal band because you have 90 minutes and there's no guarantee to get anything. But the only chance to get something is to give you all. So you want to have the maximum success? Don't waste time with holding back.”
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“To win in a very decisive moment, you have to be the best team and to be the best team. Everybody has to buy into that team and walk through fire together.”
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“Was an intense time. We had to win football games, but all the rest was on my plate as well. I need a break and you cannot do that in that business. You cannot say, give me a year, see you later.”
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