The German has signed a three-year deal on around £7million-a-year. I am 48. Most of my life I had no money to take a holiday and then I had no time.
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“He possesses all the qualities we are looking for in a manager – he is a strong, inspirational leader, who has a clear philosophy of high energy, attacking football”. “It’s similar – nobody is satisfied”. That is my job.
“I don’t want to describe myself”, he said. For me it’s enough that I have the first and last word. “Now I’m here and I hope to enjoy my work”.
The last of Liverpool’s 18 league titles came in 1990. Can Klopp get the best from him?
“The important thing is we have speed, we have technical skills, we have tactical skills, we have good defenders, good midfielders, good strikers, wingers”. But he knows what’s expected of him starting with his first game against Tottenham on Saturday, October 17. “If you are this then it’s not so far away to be a team that can win games”.
“You have to change from doubters to believers”.
Rodgers’ downfall was partly due to the club’s failings in the transfer window, with the club’s transfer committee coming in for stinging criticism following the Northern Irishman’s departure. I was a very, very average player. This is the most interesting job in world football because it’s not so bad! “I need other people to get ideal information”. “It’s really easy to handle it”. “Of course. Only a few English managers work in the Premier League – the last time one won the title was in 1992 [Howard Wilkinson]”. Let us try to start a new way.
Well aware that Liverpool have not won the league for 25 years, the new man said he did not want history to become a burden and that he was not prepared to promise immediate success.
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Jurgen Klopp has branded himself “The Normal One” in his first press conference as the new Liverpool manager. Everyone knows me. I don’t change in four months. [My style is] emotion inside, it’s speed, it’s a transition game. “I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, because of the intensity of football and Liverpool was first choice and now I have the opportunity to work here it’s the best thing I can imagine”.
