The media man crush on Jurgen Klopp is well documented, easily noticeable and well deserved. Press conferences are a world of cookie cutter tedium and dull platitudes about 90-95% of the time. They call it “coachspeak” for a reason. Klopp, on the other hand, is almost always much more entertaining.
Klopp is a very emotional guy- “a funny, angry German, and that’s the best kind of German” says comedian and Liverpool super supporter John Oliver.
Klopp seems to be having fun a lot of the time at his press sessions, like when he told the writers they were all typing too fast, and working too hard, so they need to “cool down.”
For most coaches, interviews are drudgery but when it’s Jurgen Klopp, they’re actually news-worthy. Of course, the media love him it for it, he makes great copy.
Thus, if Jurgen Klopp is like this in his public face, imagine what he’s like behind closed doors? What’s the personality that his players get to experience like?
“We can talk in German now, he always says nice things about me, but to be honest I didn’t know too much about him,” Liverpool midfielder Emre Can told multiple English newspapers.
“I played against his Dortmund team twice but I didn’t know him personally. I suppose I knew he had a reputation for being a little bit crazy and now I can see that’s true, but only in a positive way. That’s how he is.”
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