“Confidence is like a small flower and in every game the other team tries to trample on it. That’s what we have to beware of."
Klopp before the Hull game, october 2016:
“We need to be angry against them, because they want our points. That makes me angry!”
After the match, it was 5-1 for the Reds.
"I was very young and when I first made it I got a team. After one year a kind of sports director came to me.
“He asked: ‘How many new players do you want for next season when we move to the next age group?’ I said: ‘I don’t want a new player.’ He said: ‘You always take new players. Who is the best from the other clubs?’ I said: ‘I’m not interested. I want to keep these players. I want to keep this team. Maybe there’s a better one but I want to work with this one.’”
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“Actually, I can promise that before we sign a player which is not a lot better than what we have, we’ll always use our own boys,” he says. “That’s how it is. That’s how the future should be. Even in this crazy football transfer world, we want to be this special club.”
“We play two games in 48 hours, there will be injuries and then some Dutch guy (on Twitter) will say things.”
"We can defend better, we can attack better, we can create better, we can have a better balance in the game - there are a lot of things to improve.
It’s no problem, that’s the job. Otherwise we could have a holiday all week and just meet Saturday or Sunday for the game."
“We cannot play with four strikers, if you have an idea how we can do this, plus defending, come to me, tell me!”
Speaking about the criticism directed towards Karius for his blunders at Bournemouth:
“There’s no perfect recipe for development—but closing your ears helps. I’m quite good at this, hopefully he can adapt to my skills!”
(makes me still laugh, this one… )
“My life goal is to make Jose smile.”
“We are Rocky Balboa, not Ivan Drago.”
“I have been here long enough now to know in the history of Liverpool, key players have left before – but the club always goes on. You cannot transfer the heart and soul of Liverpool Football Club, although I am sure there are many clubs who would like to buy it.”
(August 2018)
Klopp when asked if de Bruyne’s injury levels the playing field:
“I think somebody who thinks like that, about a situation like that, is an a**hole. I’m not like that. First of all, I wish him the absolute very best.”
“I love Kevin, I wanted him desperately when I was at BVB but he was at Chelsea & Jose didn’t give him to me!”
“In these moments the fuel is really low and maybe the players need a bit of help from an angry manager – ‘run or I will kill you’ – and they did that with a fantastic counter attack.”
Interviewer: “You’ve played 3 games and haven’t even conceded a goal and you’re top of the league - what are you going to tell me? It doesn’t matter?”
Jurgen: “Well if you stop the league tomorrow then we will start celebrating.”
I am German, so I don’t like it. But I have to remember that he is Brazilian.
After 1-0 win vs Brighton and Allison chipped oncoming striker and calmly passed the ball out. Anfield didn’t know what had just happened.
Klopp: “I don’t know how the people in England think about me…”
Reporter: “They love you…”
Klopp: “Maybe go to Manchester and ask them!”
Jurgen Klopp: “I have so much faith in my players. You can’t imagine.”
Klopp on accepting FA charge:
“I won’t make any comments on that because comments are obviously pretty expensive.”
Klopp on Rodgers’ return to the PL:
“As long as he’s not going to Everton I’m fine because then he might want his house back!”
“My son sent me a video this morning and it showed coaches freaking out. Trapattoni was there and I was in the video three times."
“Very smart people say, 'If you’d won at Leicester you’d be champions’ and stuff like this but it’s all bullshit. Only weak people and idiots bring something like this up.”