Five Years of Jürgen Klopp: 10 Defining Moments with the boss

It's

five

years

, so it's a long time and it was quite intense but enjoyable. I must say that I cannot forget the moment when I received the call from my agent saying that Liverpool were interested and the feeling I had at that moment because we were in Portugal and I heard with the family, both children were with us and I was sitting in a coffee shop outside and I didn't really take many phone calls at the time, it was like, come on, don't bother me, but then I saw it, it was like I had a feeling it might be something interesting, so Mark wasn't careful , I took the phone, he tells me and I felt the emotion inside and I still remember that both boys said yes and then we looked at Ulla and Ella looked at the three of us.

Oh, looks like the holidays are over. It was a really nice moment together when I became aware of Liverpool's interest. It was already pretty special and from then on it just got better and better. all I have to say, oh the greatest honor I can imagine is to be here, the intensity of football, how do people experience football in Liverpool, around Liverpool, all Liverpool fans around the world? So it's not a normal club, it's a special club. José Mourinho when he came to England for the first time he described himself as the special one, how would you describe yourself?

I'm a totally normal guy I'm the normal one maybe if you want this when I left Dortmund my last sentence maybe if it wasn't so important what People think when you come in is much more important what people think when you leave. The atmosphere when the English stadium is different from a German stadium. England. If the game is not good, you can hear a needle drop. That can happen, it doesn't happen. too often to us because obviously our football game is pretty emotional, but another part where we're different is obviously how you say thank you to the crowd and after the best late prom tie I just wanted to say thank you for the atmosphere and things like that because we are not alone on this planet and we certainly are, we should not be alone in a football stadium, we should never feel alone there, neither the fans nor the team, otherwise it makes no sense, eh, of course , and then all the British media and I think even Tony Pulis mentioned something: if they celebrate a point against West Brom with all the money they spend, which is always a very good argument in football discussions, then something is up bad, but we don't celebrate the result, we said. thanks for the atmosphere people created, yes it was obviously a misunderstanding in public perception but to be honest I couldn't care less, I always say it and I truly believe that the only reason for a defeat is to react in the right way, it is learned. then it's just a result, you don't realize it, then it's a real disaster to use this experience tonight and I promise everyone that we will use it, we will use this experience and we will come back stronger 100, it could have been enough, but not with 50 60 of our usual quality, the boys tried everything and we didn't succeed tonight, but how is it possible for us to come back?

Actually, I don't think anything would have been different, it would be different today if we had both won. In these finals, to be 100 honest, we learned that, but I think we would have learned it too if we had won both finals. Here I still lost most of all the finals I was in, so it's not very pleasant, but the truth is, I didn't suffer much after we lost some finals, but of course I suffered, but I took them just as information, as an information of many other information that we all use and, then, you continue, but I don't. a different person after losing after losing the finals because in this world and I don't like that too much, but it's a fact, qualifying for a final is practically in every aspect of life a huge achievement until you lose it and it's like If everything else had never happened.

I'm worried about the next game we play and it has nothing to do with any trophy or any final loss or anything else. You just try everything and get something or nothing, that's how it is and then you try absolutely everything again so that the next thing happens I remind sadio from time to time that he used to shoot very well with his left foot he came in my direction we celebrated too much when Salier jumped on my back and it seems that the game is finished, you sell it, you can celebrate it like this if it is really decided and the three of them wanted us and obviously it is not like that, this game was a very good example of what we have to do and what We have to improve, we shouldn't come.

In situations like this very often but we are good enough to find a solution two to zero would have been better for the break than three 3-2 it is not about having a philosophy but about adapting to the quality of the opponent it was really a good sign , the first sign of how good we can be and it was also a very good sign of how dedicated we have to be to be at the top. The higher you go in terms of performance, the more likely you are to have a pretty stressful ending. of the season and I think that was the year that Chelsea were really chasing us, we had to win every game to keep the distance, Genie Van Allen's goal, a very, very important game, the fun part of that game was that we wanted a big qualification for chemistry and really after the game I realized that it is only for the qualification for the champions league finally a few weeks later after the high school game we qualified for the champions league and That was the beginning of really great stories, I would say American football at the highest intensity.

At the highest level, passion mixed with technique is the best thing football can generate massive competitiveness, so it was a pleasure to see him use everything we've learned over the

years

for a specific moment. It's just nice these two home games. let me tell you that we are absolutely exceptional oh two games I really think we deserve it in the next round we scored

five

goals against Manchester City we conceded one that is absolutely not, these numbers are not normally possible and the boys did it so I am The happy Roma showed up here, historically they are good at defending and then we fought and the world was bright and everything was great and then we conceded these two goals, these two late goals it was like, oh my God, an away game. space, so we had to fight, we did it and we qualified for the final.

These games were absolute signs of the new level we could reach. That's true. If we want to challenge for the Holy Grail, we have to be almost perfect and that means you have to finish. In a really high points study you can't be champion in England with 80-something points. I can't see that anymore. I knew from the quality and the levels that the city showed and the consistency that they showed, it was clear that you have to be very close to Be Perfect, look when you look at that season, how many

moments

this season could have been different.

We didn't score at City even 11 millimeters, 97 points, it wasn't even the number, the number was 11 millimeters, so it was just an exceptional year. it's a good education, it's good, it's good to learn that and I said that always giving you absolutely everything doesn't guarantee that you'll get anything, it's just the only chance, it's just the only chance to get something, that's how it really is. It really is and that's the perfect example of it, we gave absolutely everything and it seemed like we got absolutely nothing for it, but that's not true because a few weeks later we had a great opportunity to get something really special, oh, I told them boys.

I know it's not really possible, but thanks to you we have a chance, so let's try it. Having some words for it is one thing, but the guys who made this game are absolutely exceptional, they are three nil down knowing what we have. What to do knowing what usually happens when you are so open against Barcelona when you have to be offensive against them. It was absolutely exceptional in the game that I was able to see and it would not bore me for a second. It is such an exceptional football match that no one was there. or saw a person in charge ever forget it, hey, this is a moment where everyone involved and I mean really everyone involved gets the maximum reward for all the investment, that's what I 100% enjoy, I love to see everyone else holding him, touching him, kissing him, whatever he does with whatever he does.

I want, I love it so much, the world is absolutely overwhelming, it's too much, everything, but to experience these four or five hours in the truck around the city is too much, it was that intense, it was really absolutely great, you can't do it as something normal. Being human, you can't really deal with it, you have the opportunity to block it out and think, okay, that's too much emotion, I don't want to get sucked in, I try to be as open as possible and take in as much of it as possible. I love the fact that it's not just for us, it's not just for the guys in the jersey, it's for everyone who wants to participate and these people, obviously, our fans want to be as close as possible, they want to support us as much as possible. and So it was so special to have this moment together, it was absolutely overwhelming, incredible, unforgettable, it's so overwhelming what people do when you have direct eye contact and see how much it means to them, that's the only moving thing, to be honest , I don't know.

I'm not speaking as a football coach, not just as human beings and I think, gosh, it sounds like it's really serious, a lot of people just before we start thinking, they bombard us with numbers that we as human beings can't handle. . wants to read every day how many people died so we had to learn to deal with these situations too and for this moment we stop the league here football is no longer important the only way to get football back as soon as possible and if so What the People want, the more disciplined we are now, the sooner we will get our lives back piece by piece.

We played that game and it was really weird because I can cut everything before a game. I make sure my family is well separated. that I don't need to know anything I can't be completely focused on the game in this game I fought a lot I fought a lot it was incredible and then the zero and zero discussions came up and it's from a maybe selfish point of view I don't know, but I think from the point of view From the point of view of an athlete I also thought: how can you think about that after 70 percent of the season played?

How can anyone think it would be the right decision to take away everything we did? Before that it was difficult for a moment, but it became clear after a few weeks that that is not going to happen, we have to be very cautious and very serious again with all the things that happen out there, make sure that we are all as good as possible at the end of the 30-year wait and obviously absolutely everything for our fans and absolutely everything for us here too it's just from my point of view and I know a lot of people who see it differently one of the greatest achievements in sport in recent years. if you see the circumstances if you see the challenges if you see the opponents if you see the pressure that was on the guys when I got here um and all this kind of stuff so it's one of the greatest achievements um now it's just another milestone in This in history of this fantastic club it was all different, it was not like it usually is, but that makes it even more special because we hope that we will never compare this title with any other title, not from the point of view of the points count, just from a point of view .

How was it without followers? Because hopefully it will never happen again that someone has to celebrate something without followers. That makes it so special that it will be very easy for us to remember it in the future, when we think back without an audience, it is not the same, but you know, we do it for you, we know it, we will have a good time and we will do it together, congratulations to all of us, we are president of England, Europe and the unbelieving world thanks to you, by the way, us guys tonight decided I want to mix things up in the future when we look back and you know, but when did we win this?

It was 21 or 22, oh I don't know, it was 23 and stuff, so that's actually the plan and there's some work to do and yeah, if everyone stays healthy, if everyone stays committed, if we all keep believing , if we all keep dreaming, then I think we have a chance and that's okay because we never had more than a chance and somehow it worked out.