Klopp on James Milner:
āHe educated Curtis Jones. Curtis was the classic super talent: give me the ball, Iāll do something. He didnāt pass the ball a lot in the youth teams because he knew he could do it better than the others.ā
āThen you arrive in the first team and you have to consider all these different things and James made sure he saw that. Not in a harsh way. He didnāt want to change his personality, he just wanted to shape it!ā
JĆ¼rgen Klopp on James Milner:
āNothing ā absolutely nothing ā would have happened at Liverpool without him. That is 100 per cent true. Nothing.ā
āPretty quickly I saw he was a special character. A serious player, serious professional, and someone who I thought could be my āpartnerā at the club. Whatever the future held, we would do it together.ā
āWhen you are in a football club every day, you do not appreciate some people enough. Now I am on the outside, I see it. I texted him only recently to say, āIt was an honour that I covered a few yards with you on the journey.ā I mean it. The honour was mine. I donāt think this record [the Premier League appearance record] will happen again. He is the last dinosaur to do that!ā
Would love both Milly and Hendo back here in some form of coaching capacity.
Yeah if Milner was to retire Iād have him back in a shot .
Milly and Hendo just knew how to set standards in training and on the pitch. There are times I feel like we miss their voices and energy and leadership as we navigate through a difficult period.
Slot also gave them credit a few days ago, from what he found out behind the scenes.
No way of knowing this, but hopefully it doesnāt mean that the leadership aspect in general dropped. Maybe itās different in style, but you want quality.
Itās a constant process anyway, you have to get and build new leaders with time.
I think that with those twoās leadership qualities anyone following would struggle to stand up and therefore IMO it would inherently drop off, hopefully, not a big drop off.
James Milner 
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The 40-year-old comes on for Brighton - against former club Aston Villa - for his 653rd Premier League appearance, equalling the all-time record set by Gareth Barry
He could break the record against us. That would be nice as long as weāre 3-0 up with 10 mins to go.
So happy for James 
I wish we had James back in our team dressing room
. He was a great mentor and he would get the game by the scruff of his neck abd turn it around when we were doing badly.
There seems to be a fair bit of discussion comparing the minutes Milner has played in his games than Barry did, which Barry accumulating about 4 full season of minutes from his games than Milner has. Ok, if weāre going to do that lets compare distance covered. I suspect Barry would need an additional 4 seasons for football to come close to the distance Milly covered in his games.
Eh, really?
Bet he wouldnāt. Barry was a hard working player. Iād imagine heās miles clear of Milner.
Donāt know why we would need to do this with distance covered, might even be impossible, given how far back youād have to go to find stats. Both players deserve their credit for the amount of games they played.
He was in the early part of his career, especially given most of his time at Villa was as a LB. A lot of the argument for why Barry for Alonso (god, remember that time?) made sense was because we struggled getting enough players into the box he would add that.
But he was only able to accumulate a lot of those games towards the end because he totally evolved his game. Thatās probably the bulk of his Everton career. Its not meant as a knock on him, just a reflection of how petty some are being trying to play down Milnerās accomplishment
He was a box to box player for most of his career, and even at Everton Iād still imagine he was one of the hardest workers.
His fitness was every bit as impressive as Milnerās.
I was hoping for it. Curious it didnāt happen at Anfield
You canāt break the Premier League apparence record by playing in the F.A. Cup.
Man City would disagree with your assessment. I wish you luck in court.