Jürgen Klopp
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Nobody at Liverpool will ever use it as an excuse, but...
It is the situation.
You walk every day in this room where he was omnipresent.
He was... Can you imagine?
To talk about him, he was so close with James Milner.
They are not the same age group.
They are nothing the same.
It's just he was so... But on the other side, very close with Kostas Simikas.
That's like moon and Mars.
So that's...
That was him.
And dealing with that 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 whereby the players, there was not a plan, I'm pretty sure, that he had to get replaced.
Yeah.