FC Liverpool: Ex player reveals almost

Between Jürgen Klopp and the longtime English international James Milner, it would almost come to a tangible fight in the cabin of the FC Liverpool in January 2017. The then Liverpooler and former Augsburger Ragnar Klavan now revealed in betsafe Eesti Podcast .

At that time, the LFC was slightly crisis mood. Around Christmas and early January, the greatest pressure ruled us. And once - I do not know exactly against whom we have played, I believe in Sunderland - Had Klopp and Milner almost had a physical argument. It was the time round To the Boxing Day in England and they almost fought against each other. But Milner is then backed back, Shielded Klavan.

But Klopp had pulled through this dispute, the Este is safe. We could see it in his eyes that he would have gone so far to underpin his point of view. For him it was the most stressful time. He was under a huge pressure, the 35-year-old remembered.

Klopp was at that time in his second season at the Reds, but the advance laurels, who were allocated to him in his obligation in October 2015, he could not meet until then.

It s called you a great coach. You are Jürgen Klopp and make superstars from all players. The pressure gradually rose for him. Nobody says it s easy, but if you do not deliver against a team like Sunderland, then you can not Forget the places you actually hoped, Klavan looked back at the time.

Liverpool made it at the end of the season after all in four place and qualified for the Champions League. After that, the steep climb began with the Champions League final 2018, the Champions League victory 2019 and the narrowly missed championship in the same year, whose completion followed another year later.

Klavan praises Klopp: a phenomenon

For Klavan, the successes under Klopp are no coincidence. The former Dortmund and Mainz coach understand it to find the right speech for his team. He has never repeated himself in TeamMeetings, I had no other coach with any other coach. He has always spoken out of another perspective or has a small joke scattered, says Klavan.

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Klopp is a coach who knows exactly when he had to say something. If he saw that there is a problem in the team, then he could solve that with a small joke. And vice versa, if the team was not so much in the matter, he quickly made sure who the boss is, explains the Center backing, who played between 2016 and 2018 in Liverpool. This is Klopp s phenomenon that he could read a team so well .