🔴 Klopp: "We should be really happy that we have these owners. I wouldn’t have survived a year at Liverpool (with different others in charge)".
"Sack him, sack him... then finally they play football where people think they might be back and they sack the manager anyway".
Good morning Reds ❤️
Jurgen Klopp, speaking at the M&S Arena last night.
With an all important message..
“Can you imagine LFC as the club with unlimited money?
Imagine Kylian Mbappé came here.
Imagine Bellingham came here, Haaland.
It is not us, it just does not fit.
We won what we won and we did it the Liverpool way.
We had hard conversations and other clubs didn’t do that in the same time.
“We built two new stands, a new training ground, we bought Melwood back – the dumbest idea I ever heard was that we sold it in the first place.
The owners do what owners do. Surprise! The owners want to earn money.
Sorry to tell you that.
It’s not like they earn money on a daily basis: they invest something and that’s how the whole world goes.
“We should be really happy that we have these owners and not guys who bought London clubs and other stuff.
I wouldn’t have survived a year at Liverpool.
‘Great development but not good enough, sack him!’ A year later: ‘Sack him’.
Then finally they play football where people think they might be back and they sack the manager anyway.
“People always think the grass is greener but we have owners who really feel responsible for the club and work really hard as well to be successful. I felt supported.
We did it as good as we could have done and I’m fine with it.
“If the whole world loses trust and faith in the player then the manager has to be the one behind the player.
I cannot just buy into that ‘he’s useless’ stuff like other clubs did by the way.
Buying a player for £80m and then sending him out on loan!”
YNWA [Gonna miss this man] 💔😪
🗣️ Carlo Ancelotti: "Kaka landed at Malpensa Airport and I put my head in my hands: Eyeglasses, hair perfectly combed, the face of a good boy.
All he was missing was schoolbooks and a snack. My god, we signed a college student. Kaka didn’t look anything like a Brazilian footballer, he reminded me of a Jehovah’s Witness.
Moggi started to send shade: ‘With that name in Italy he’s done for. At Juventus we’re all constipated. We don’t pay for Kaka’.
Then, he stepped on the pitch still jet lagged and all: the heavens opened. With the ball at his feet he was monstrous. I stopped talking simply because I was at a loss for words. Words didn’t even exist for what I was seeing.
The Jehovah’s Witness was actually someone who spoke directly with God. And, I’m sure in one of those conversations, they talked about football.
In his first challenge in training as a Milanista Kaka found himself in front of Gattuso, who gave him a terrifying shoulder barge, but Kaka didn’t even lose the ball. Rino in his own way of encouraging his new teammate said: ‘F**k off’.
Then, after keeping the ball, Kaka played a 30-yard pass, taking even Nesta by surprise who wasn’t able to intercept it.
At the end of every training [ex-Milan CEO Adriano] Galliani and I always spoke on the phone so that I could tell him what was going on, and then hear his thoughts.
That day I called him: ‘Mr Galliani, I have some news for you’. ‘Good or bad?’ ‘Good. Very good’. ‘Carletto, are you giving your resignation?’ ‘No, I’m staying, because we just signed a phenomenon’."
"The atmosphere is crazy! It's so loud. You can tell the fans are behind their team. 'You'll Never Walk Alone' is beautiful" 🔊
Emmanuel Adebayor names Anfield as the GREATEST away ground he has played at 🏟️