'Klopp is more than Klopp' - Liverpool boss delivers moving tribute to coaching team
Departing Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp paid a heart-rending tribute to his backroom coaching team after the curtain came down on his glittering Reds career.
Four months on from announcing his intention to step down from the Anfield hotseat, the 56-year-old took charge of the Merseyside giants for the final time on Sunday afternoon.
Wolverhampton Wanderers were the visitors to Merseyside for Klopp's swansong, and Liverpool eased to a 2-0 win, as Alexis Mac Allister's header and Jarell Quansah's close-range effort proved telling in the first half.
With the Reds already assured of a third-placed finish, though, there was little riding on the match as far as Premier League permutations were concerned, as tributes flooded in for Klopp both during and after the game.
The former Borussia Dortmund boss is not the only Liverpool coach to be bidding farewell this summer, though, as a total of seven backroom staff members will also pack their bags at the end of the season.
«Jurgen Klopp is more than Jurgen Klopp»Assistants Pep Lijnders, Vitor Matos and Peter Krawietz are heading off elsewhere — the former two will continue working together at Red Bull Salzburg — while goalkeeping coaches John Achterberg and Jack Robinson are leaving too.
In addition Andreas Kornmayer — head of fitness and conditioning — and Andreas Schlumberger, head of recovery and performance, are following Klopp out of the door, and the German made sure to namecheck all of his lieutenants in his post-game press conference.
«I want to thank everybody. I love how we said goodbye to the staff, how the players said goodbye to the staff. For the public, it's Jürgen Klopp, Jürgen Klopp, Jürgen Klopp, Jürgen Klopp,» the Liverpool boss said.
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