Jürgen Klopp
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The numbers are unmatched, I would say.
Hopefully, maybe somebody will match it, but it will take a while.
because it's him.
I don't think there was a misunderstanding for a second, it was him.
I think for the most time of his life he was a fan himself, so he probably thought rather he will have a career as a football supporter than as a player from a specific point on, even though he was maybe still hoping a little bit.
But if he wouldn't have been a player, he would have been in the crowd, so that's as easy as that.
He understood it's his way of life, it's his way of football, and so there was no gap between your expectations and his expectations, and your involvement and his involvement.
It makes it so difficult for the next ones and stuff like that, and Kyrgios is a really good full-back, we all know that, but in our minds it will be,
It's not just Robbo, it's different.
Different strengths, different skill sets, stuff like that, and you have to leave this kind of space for the next ones.
But at the same time, we should be allowed to appreciate what we got as long as we had it, and it was fantastic.
I really, really love it.
I have so many goals in my mind.
I think it's again Man City as well, it's this goal when Trent's diagonal ball and then the next diagonal ball from Robbo and Mo with a header, which is not really a situation for a header but against the direction again.
These kind of situations, we always found a solution.
to break the line if you want.
And if we didn't, we just stepped up two or three gears and got a bit more aggressive, a bit more passionate, a bit more wild or whatever, and tried to force it, and I enjoyed that as much.
He was a big part of that, he was in the game, animated.
I don't think he's a ref's friend, really.
Maybe he was shy in the beginning, he wasn't shy at all when I left, and probably isn't now.