Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp on his special relationship with the fans as he prepares for his final game in charge against Wolves at Anfield
Melwood, Liverpool, UK
Melwood, Liverpool, UK
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00:00 How do you explain how much the fans have taken to you personally?
00:06 I can't...
00:08 I try to explain why I like the people so much, why the people like me so much,
00:24 how can I describe that? I don't understand it properly,
00:29 and how the football manager of Liverpool is, before you put a step on the pitch,
00:34 people like you until you disappoint them.
00:36 We never really disappointed them, I think, in the moments, but in general...
00:40 It was alright, but the club is special.
00:47 That you realise now as well, the club means the world to so many people, it's crazy.
00:53 So here I use the opportunity to apologise, I got over the years,
00:59 but now in the last few weeks it was really extreme.
01:02 Emails, letters, if I start answering them I sit here until 2028,
01:10 so it's just too much and I really apologise that I cannot react on it,
01:13 some of them I read, I didn't read all of them.
01:16 I couldn't organise tickets for the last game, there were a lot of requests as well.
01:22 But it shows, and yesterday I had four LFC TV to read letters,
01:29 and one of them I burst into tears, it's just not possible,
01:33 the stories behind it, what it meant to the people and what we did over these nine years,
01:37 and how their lives changed in these nine years.
01:40 I know that football can do that to people,
01:43 you can know that football can do that to a city, and we did that.
01:47 But the thing is now...
01:50 And some people might think, "Now I leave and that's gone",
01:55 but it's not, because experience is there to learn from,
01:58 and if you all experience now that that can lead,
02:01 that the way we felt, the way we bought into it, led to the fact how happy we were.
02:08 Don't keep doing that for the next generation, for the next team,
02:14 which is still here for the next manager, and you will feel the same way,
02:19 because the support doesn't depend on people at all, it's about the club.
02:25 It was before me about the club, it will be after me about the club,
02:28 and that's how it should be.
02:32 But we have very special supporters, and the last nine years meant the world to them,
02:41 and I'm happy about that.