I love Liverpool, the people, the city and Anfield - Emotional Klopp
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp on his emotional goodbye to the city and people of Liverpool and also his farewell to Anfield this weekend against Wolves
Melwood, Liverpool, UK
Melwood, Liverpool, UK
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00:00 Karl.
00:01 Hi.
00:03 Just on a sort of line, a lot of times you talk about the journey and the emotional journey
00:11 they've had, rather than the trophies and the results.
00:14 I'm just wondering what you're going to take away from the experience?
00:18 Same.
00:19 Outside of the results?
00:20 I know, same. Look, it's nearly a decade in my life,
00:23 and super influential in so many ways.
00:26 I spoke before about how hard it will be to say goodbye,
00:30 I love absolutely everything about this place, I do.
00:32 And...
00:35 I take memories with me, fantastic memories,
00:42 I take friendships with me, relationships with me, forever.
00:52 Look, I think you realise that the older you get, when time slips through your fingers,
00:57 whereas we only realise that later on, you look back and think, "My God, that was quick."
01:02 I don't think it was quick, it's not that I feel it as if I would have arrived yesterday,
01:07 I really think it was the absolute opposite of a waste of time.
01:12 We used absolutely everything and tried to make the best out of everything,
01:18 tried to enjoy it as much as possible, and a decade in your life is a massive one,
01:26 and I will not forget...
01:28 I'm not going to say a minute, but I will not forget a day in that time,
01:33 because I met the best people I ever met,
01:37 and I did it for the best club I could have imagined.
01:46 So that's just how it is, in a wonderful, very, very special city.
01:52 Very special. Nothing is perfect nowadays,
01:56 but the majority of the people in the city are for me as close as possible,
02:02 because of the way they deal with life, the way they welcome you, the way they treat you.
02:09 And I don't mean me, I mean all the people I know when they arrive in the city.
02:14 What they tell me describes people in Liverpool.
02:19 And that's wonderful to know, I'm completely at peace.
02:23 It's wonderful to know that I spent a big time of my life here,
02:28 and I said it before, I got the key of the city,
02:32 and I know that's probably rather funny for a lot of people,
02:36 for me it feels like responsibility,
02:41 so I don't think and I don't imagine that the club will need my help in the future,
02:47 but if the city needs me I'm there, that's how it is.
02:50 I want to be helpful in whatever way, and we will see how that looks.
03:10 I'm really sorry, I know life is about pictures and stuff like this.
03:15 It was a staff event, that's why I went there, loved it, did it,
03:20 but then people from our TV channel asked me to do that.
03:24 I would never wear a saco and a shirt and go to Anfield in an empty stadium,
03:30 and just stand there and enjoy an empty stadium.
03:33 I love Anfield to bits, but I love when it's full.
03:37 This was created... I hope that's not a picture of my time at Liverpool,
03:43 being alone in the stadium, that would be somehow dressed up.
03:48 When they asked me to do that, I stood there, and yes, that feels kind of strange,
03:57 and yes, you realise I never did it before, so now I did it once and I will never do it again,
04:01 probably when can you find Anfield completely for yourself and be alone in there?
04:06 But I wasn't alone, a lot of cameras were around, you can see because there were pictures.
04:10 No, Anfield is a super, super special place, because of the people.
04:17 It's a nice stadium, love it, love it, love it, but the people make it exceptional.