Norwich City boss David Wagner admits he “wasn’t shocked” by the decision of his close friend Jurgen Klopp to leave Liverpool at the end of the season.
The bombshell news was announced on Friday that Klopp will end a near nine-year stay in the Reds hotseat in the summer.
Liverpool remain in the hunt for four trophies after they dismissed Championship side Norwich 5-2 in their FA Cup fourth round tie on Sunday at an emotional Anfield.
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And Wagner, who is a close friend of Klopp, was afterwards asked about his thoughts on imminent exit of the Liverpool boss.
“I wasn’t shocked,” said the Norwich boss. “To be fair, a lot of people have said a lot of things about his decision, but everything that we have spoken about is super private and that’s why I wouldn’t really like to answer questions about his decision and my thoughts about it. We should respect what he has done. Now I wish him really from the bottom of my heart until the end of the season the very best that he is as successful as he can be with this team.
“I saw him before the game today here in the stadium and probably I will see him afterwards as well. It’s fine to see him because normally I wouldn’t have seen him before the summer – the last time I saw him was last summer. This draw gave us the chance. This is something personally which is quite nice about this game as well.
“Did I see more emotion from him? No. He wanted to win, I wanted to in. We gave ourselves and
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