‘I would drive him myself’, Klopp says if any player exits over Champions League – Sports – FootBall

Juergen Klopp mentioned he would personally drive any of his gamers to a different membership in the event that they wished to depart Liverpool after the Premier League aspect did not qualify for the Champions League.

Liverpool will end the season in fifth place, qualifying for the Europa League however lacking out on Europe’s premier competitors for the primary time since Klopp’s first full season on the Anfield membership.

Mohamed Salah mentioned he was “completely devastated” that Liverpool had did not safe Champions League qualification, however Klopp mentioned there have been no considerations concerning the annoyed ahead’s future on the membership.

“No worries (about Salah’s future)… Clearly Mo loves being right here and Mo was a part of it. He mentioned apologies for what ‘we’ did, not apologies for ‘what the opposite guys did, however I needed to go along with them’. By no means, it is all fantastic,” Klopp mentioned.

“If a participant would come to me and say, ‘Oh we did not qualify for the Champions League, I’ve to depart,’ I might drive him to the opposite membership myself. I might take the important thing and say, ‘Come within the automobile, the place do you need to go? I will drive you.’

“That might be one thing I by no means might perceive. It is like me saying: ‘We did not qualify for the Champions League and I have to work within the Champions League, so I’m going.’ I’m accountable for this mess, so you can not go in these moments.”

Liverpool reached three Champions League finals underneath Klopp, successful the title in 2019.

The second-tier Europa League has lengthy been derided as a “booby prize” and the German supervisor mentioned he was unfamiliar with that time period “What’s a booby? I wanted to come back fifth to study that phrase. Not for me,” he added.

“On the extent we often carry out it’s about Champions League due to the cash, the opponents and all this. However I like European competitions.

“I do know if you play there is no distinction. Folks might imagine, ‘It is simply the Europa League’ however I’m 100% certain that come the primary whistle, Thursday evening, whoever is the opponent, Anfield can be rocking. And that is all I would like.”

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