'I consider him my dad' – Ex-Liverpool star Naby Keita reveals his emotional reaction to Jurgen Klopp's exit bombshell | Z4WE820 | 2024-01-29 16:08:01
Naby Keita has passed on his greatest needs to Jurgen Klopp after the German announced he would be departing Liverpool in the summer, revealing he views his former manager like a father.
The news got here as an almighty shock to Liverpool fans and rival supporters alike, with the 56-year-old deciding to step down after nine trophy-laden years at Anfield.
Klopp will hope to bow out on a excessive at the finish of the campaign and the Reds discover themselves in a robust place on the midway stage, sitting 5 factors clear of champions Manchester City on the prime of the Premier League table.
The Merseyside giants are additionally preventing for honours within the Carabao Cup and the FA Cup, with Klopp's males storming to a complete 5-2 defeat of Norwich to succeed in the fifth round at the weekend.
Klopp brought Keita to Liverpool from RB Leipzig again in 2018 and the 28-year-old midfielder went on to make 129 appearances for the membership across 5 seasons, profitable seven pieces of silverware.
And while the Guinea worldwide left Liverpool to hitch Werder Bremen as a free agent last June, he had nothing but good words to say about his previous boss as he mirrored on the information with RMC Sport.
'I'm not on the social media networks however once they advised me, I had tears in my eyes,' Keita advised the French publication forward of Guinea's AFCON quarter-final clash with DR Congo.
'He took me to Liverpool as his son and I contemplate him my dad.
'I wish him one of the best for the remainder of his life. I'll try to write to him afterwards.
'Such is life, I bumped into him and I wasn't dissatisfied. We obtained trophies.'
Virgil van Dijk, meanwhile, has stated that Liverpool's squad have Klopp's impending departure 'arduous to take' after telling them in personal.
'It's a hard one to take, because the manager means a lot for us, to me, to the club, to the whole Premier League I feel,' the Liverpool and Netherlands defender stated.
'However he made the decision for him and his family. It was all the time going to be a troublesome one and it was undoubtedly the case.
'He advised us in personal in fact, and all of us have been together. Like I stated, it's a tough one to take but our mindset is to give attention to enterprise.
We've got numerous targets nonetheless to realize this yr and why not finish the season on a high and together with celebrations for the boss as properly?'
Van Dijk added: 'I feel how we all the time try to handle noise from the surface. In fact that is large, it's large news in soccer. For us, it was additionally a very huge day. But we now have massive targets this yr and that's undoubtedly confused by the supervisor as nicely.
'For us and for me personally as nicely, I need to ensure that the rest of the boys assume like that too. I feel that's the case as nicely. All of us need to obtain a lot and that mindset was already there since pre-season and that doesn't change.
'It is going to perhaps even offer you an extra increase to try this additional or perhaps take pleasure in it slightly bit much more collectively and make the last a part of the season, the last little bit of the supervisor's time on the membership, the most effective time he's ever had. That's what we attempt for and that's why it's enterprise as ordinary.'
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