Klopp Not Offended By “Soft German” Jibe From Allardyce
“We must wait for the game”. If you don’t [take your first chance] you have to work to defend, to switch, to speed up and slow down. We have to see.
“I’ve never been anxious about a football game”, he said. “It’s been a good year for me personally, 2015, if you look outside what happened in the world it’s not a real good year, but personally it was a really good year”.
However, captain Henderson suffered a recurrence of his persistent heel issue during Wednesday’s win over former club Sunderland and is set to join James Milner (calf) and Divock Origi (hamstring) on the sidelines. It’s hard and it’s what we have to develop together.
“But I can’t say I’ve been waiting all my life for Liverpool v Manchester United or Liverpool v Arsenal”. “We need to try and strengthen the squad”.
“That’s not how it should be if you want consistently to get results”. But it’s no presents, we have to work for it’. “But it could be good for him, we hope – something like the final pain then it goes in a better direction for him”. That is the next step.
Sunderland boss Allardyce branded Klopp “a soft German” for claiming Jeremain Lens should have been sent off for a late lunge on Reds defender Mamadou Sakho. The Football Association said the context of the comments ensured there was no cause for disciplinary action.
Klopp joked he has been called worse and says he stands by his view of the Dutch midfielder’s tackle.
“Christian scored the decisive goal and that’s the best thing you can do as a striker but he can play even better”, Klopp said. [If] you see the situation, you see it again, then you will know that I was not too wrong in judging this. But in my opinion, situations like this have to be judged differently to other things.
“I don’t know”, the manager told Sky Sports television after Liverpool, who last won a top-flight title in 1990, won against Sunderland.
Klopp says he turned them down because he simply ‘wasn’t available, ‘ although we think had West Ham approached him when we did in October, he still would’ve turned them down!