Jürgen Klopp
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Podcast Appearances
I don't even know my first lineup, but it's a proper engine room.
It's smart players.
It's people who really want to
want to perform, want to work hard and all these kind of things.
They said, what do you need for a start?
I knew Liverpool was not the same club than they were before.
It's not that I went into the shiny room.
I played there a year before with Dortmund in the pre-season, and I was massively disappointed about the dressing rooms.
I remember you have these pictures in your mind, you think, oh my God, it's Anfield, right?
And you walk in and make two steps into the dressing room when you run against the wall and you think, kidding, is that all?
Where's the rest?
So English dressing rooms, really, really small in the old stadium.
Then we think, oh my God, how can you bring it?
It was built for 11 players and now we come here with 30.
So people in that room, it doesn't help.
So I knew about the history.
I knew that nobody's happy.
I knew that I liked the team.
No, we didn't really speak about that in the first conversation.
That's nothing I need to talk about in this kind of conversation.