Klopp 'understands' Alonso's decision to stay at Leverkusen

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp believes Xabi Alonso is doing the right thing in staying at Bayer Leverkusen.

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00:00 The one part I can speak about is the young manager being at the club

00:04 where he's doing really well, so that's what I can...

00:08 I had a similar situation and did pretty much the same, if you want,

00:13 and never regretted it, so that's pretty much everything I can say about it,

00:19 the club is doing an incredible job there.

00:22 Liverpool has a good team, probably will keep the team together,

00:26 I think that's possible this year as well, so it's not every year like that.

00:30 So I understand that he wants to do that,

00:38 and for the other stuff it's nothing, I have to say, to be honest.

00:43 I don't think you can compare that with Jada, I think Xabi is now doing...

00:47 I'm not sure how much Leverkusen you watch,

00:50 but if you watch them from time to time it's really impressive.

00:52 It's not that he just built on last year or whatever,

00:55 he put an idea on the pitch and they stick to it and they are incredible.

01:00 On top of that, they created a mentality which is really special,

01:04 we won a lot of late games, they won a lot of late games, it's crazy.

01:07 And these kind of things, so...

01:09 You cannot say for former players it's like this or like that,

01:16 for some it might be too early, for others not, but I don't know.