Klopp final press conference and Liverpool goodbye

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Klopp final press conference and Liverpool goodbye  Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, UK

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00:00 (SIDE CONVERSATION)

00:05 (SIDE CONVERSATION)

00:11 Wow.

00:12 Now you get emotional, eh?

00:15 My last press conference.

00:17 (LAUGHTER)

00:20 I don't think I will.

00:26 But if...

00:29 (LAUGHTER)

00:32 I miss you, I just look at the picture, see Winnie, and it's gone.

00:36 (LAUGHTER)

00:38 Come on, come on.

00:39 That works without sound, I'm pretty sure.

00:42 Jürgen, how do you feel about what you've experienced today?

00:48 Because it's not a normal thing for a manager to get set up like that.

00:52 No, I don't think it's normal.

00:57 I knew for a long time our relationship was pretty special, I love that.

01:05 I really think that the people make the difference for this club.

01:09 These people are the superpower of this club,

01:13 these people keep the club going, these people push the club,

01:18 these people carry the club through difficult moments.

01:21 These people are the club.

01:23 So I was not... Obviously we had a really good time together,

01:28 nine years, nearly a decade, it was absolutely crazy.

01:32 Kids of the staff who were in the stadium today,

01:37 they don't know another manager of Liverpool, you see?

01:41 That's how it is, they just think I was always there and will always be there,

01:45 and now I'm gone.

01:47 I expected...

01:50 I was a bit afraid of a breakdown, I had one or two moments during the week

01:56 where it was not great, and during the game the last few minutes were tricky.

02:01 But the general feeling today was it felt for me more like a start than an end,

02:06 because I know the goodbyes are about me, but in general it's about the team,

02:10 and it's a wonderful team on the way.

02:13 It's a team who is ahead of schedule in their development,

02:20 so it's a tough league and you never know where you go and where you start again,

02:24 but it's not just a good football team.

02:26 I saw all the young players who saved our backsides a couple of times this year,

02:31 none of them besides Conor and Jorrell,

02:34 Jorrell played, Conor was on the bench,

02:36 and the other boys were all not involved, so they are there as well.

02:39 And that's what gave me the feeling, "OK, job done."

02:45 I love you all, I love all, and everything about the club.

02:55 But it's time for me to go, but it's not burning behind me,

03:02 so that gives me a good feeling.

03:04 It's not that you think, "Oh, come on, get out of here."

03:08 I know I can come back and I will come back,

03:10 and how I said after the game today, three hours ago when the game finished,

03:16 I'm a Liverpool supporter and I love that.

03:22 We've heard many stories this week about how you've impacted people in the city,

03:27 and we've also had that moment here at Anfield

03:30 where the whole of Anfield has seen your song for the last few minutes of the game.

03:34 I just wonder if there's anything like that, or anything you've heard in the last 24 hours,

03:39 even this last week, that's really impacted you?

03:42 Everything, everything impacted me, it was fantastic.

03:46 Like I said, the boys showed class, but it's difficult to deal with these kinds of things.

03:53 I could not use the exit of the training ground, I cannot go out there,

03:57 I would still stand there and sign autographs,

04:00 people show me so much love, it's fine, I cannot come to my house,

04:04 it's all nice, but it's really difficult to take.

04:12 It's so positive and I wish it would be for somebody else and I would be his best friend.

04:16 So that would be great, my best friend gets all this attention,

04:20 but I get all the attention, that's really tricky to take, to be honest.

04:23 I just try to get through this, and there will be a moment when nobody asks me anymore,

04:27 nobody looks at me anymore and I just go down for a few hours or days,

04:31 I don't know, we will see that.

04:33 But for the moment I have to function, I have to keep going and do that,

04:37 but it was today wonderful.

04:40 I want to thank everybody about it.

04:42 I love how the players said goodbye to the staff,

04:47 they said goodbye to colleagues, but the public, it's Jürgen Klopp, Jürgen Klopp, Jürgen Klopp.

04:52 But Jürgen Klopp is Pep Lindner, Jürgen Klopp is Peter Garwitz,

04:55 Jürgen Klopp is Vito Matos, Jürgen Klopp is John Achterberg,

04:58 Jack Robinson, Tore Tavarell, Jürgen Klopp is Andreas Gorman,

05:02 Andreas Schlumberger, Jürgen Klopp is so much more than Jürgen Klopp.

05:05 I alone would have done absolutely nothing.

05:08 And it's really nice how the people did that today,

05:12 because everybody felt really appreciated.

05:15 I don't have a lack of appreciation, obviously,

05:18 everybody shows me in the first moment and tells me, "I will miss you."

05:22 I'm happy that all the other guys got their attention as well.

05:26 It was an absolutely incredible and wonderful time, I love it.

05:32 My family was on the pitch, which was nice, really nice.

05:36 Now we will have a party, then we will come back next week for another event,

05:41 and I will come back occasionally, just as a supporter now.

05:46 And I am fine with that, honestly.

05:49 Maybe not for the first game of the season, when does the season start, by the way?

05:56 - Sunday. - Sorry?

05:57 Sunday, August.

05:59 Oh, no, I don't have time then.

06:01 LAUGHTER

06:03 That's early, wow.

06:06 Maybe after the second international break or something like that.

06:09 So, look, what can I say?

06:13 I decided there must be a difference.

06:19 If things go bad, always worse, worse, worse,

06:25 or if things go well and you go...

06:28 And I'm really happy that we could have done it that way.

06:34 Yeah.

06:36 Third, that's all right.

06:42 Karl.

06:44 What were your first days not to look for money to pay your fine?

06:48 I have no clue, where should I know that?

06:51 Packing? Probably.

06:54 Yeah, I think so, but I don't know.

06:57 I have enough things to do. Private life must be planned as well,

07:01 and I didn't plan anything yet because I was here.

07:04 And probably Ula will update me where we go and stuff like this,

07:10 but I follow happily.

07:13 But I have no clue what's coming.

07:15 I know we have tonight a party.

07:17 Right, yeah.

07:19 That's what I know.

07:21 A couple of quick ones. Tim.

07:23 Will you be able to have...

07:26 Give your family a proper break, because managers who do sit,

07:31 they're stepping back from football, football often drags them back...

07:34 Not me. No, no, I will work, I will work.

07:37 I just finished that job, it's difficult.

07:40 I don't know exactly why nobody believes that I probably will not be a manager again,

07:46 but I understand because obviously it seems to be a drug.

07:50 But it looks like, because everybody comes back

07:54 and it works until you're 70-something.

07:57 I always had the idea I will not do that, that long.

08:00 Other people are smarter, other people can do it in a different way,

08:04 I have to be all in, I have to be the spark, I have to be the energiser,

08:08 I have to be all these kinds of things, and I'm empty.

08:12 So that's it.

08:14 My biggest worry today was that Kutcher and Achterberg were coughing all the time next to me,

08:17 I thought I'd wake up tomorrow morning and I'm ill,

08:20 because the idiot is coughing in my direction.

08:22 So I have to start with the rest now, and we will see.

08:27 But it's not that I feel now already, and maybe the next opportunity...

08:31 You only have to look outside, which clubs are available and stuff like this,

08:35 so there will be opportunities, but I don't sit here and think,

08:39 "Maybe in India's time I'll take that."

08:42 In this moment, see you later.

08:45 On that note, well done. Thank you.

08:48 Thank you very much.

08:50 [Applause]

08:53 [Applause]

08:57 [Applause]

09:00 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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