'Super ambitious' Van Dijk didn't need captaincy to regain form - Klopp
Jurgen Klopp was full of love for his captain Virgil van Dijk, praising the Dutchman's return to form
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00:00 When you play the level Virgil played for so many years now for us,
00:04 and there's a dip-in after an injury,
00:06 stuff like this, and everybody discusses it like it's over.
00:08 It's not nice, but it's the world we are living in, so that's how it is.
00:12 It was never a real problem.
00:14 If you play on the level the boys play,
00:17 little problems can lead to a big difference in performance,
00:22 that's how it is, you don't feel 100 per cent,
00:24 just 80 and you step out and you don't win,
00:27 the player turns right instead of left, you read the situation wrong and gone.
00:30 And the whole world tells you, "Oh, he's not the best defender in the world anymore."
00:34 So dealing with all these things at a pretty young age,
00:36 Virgil is not that young anymore but he's still a young human being,
00:40 it's not that he's 60 and saw it all.
00:43 Super ambitious and wants to reach a lot of things with his club,
00:48 and all these kinds of things, and yes, the captaincy helped.
00:55 He took the role sensationally well.
00:58 If just an armband right here would make us the best version of ourselves again,
01:03 we all should try it.
01:05 Just wearing something is not a problem, so put it there and let's see what happens.