Jürgen Klopp Quotes

We're facing the greatest challenge there is in football: to play against an Italian team that only needs a draw.

I really have to say I love women's football, it's outstanding. The quality of the tournament is insane. England is doing exceptionally well. I saw three games of Germany too, they've been doing really well as well. It's a really good final - two intense teams facing each other. As much as I love England, my heart is with the German side. At a sold out Wembley with an English crowd, it will be a massive challenge for Germany. England are slight favourites playing at home, but Germany has a chance. Most important is the face women's football showed, it's a fantastic game. Women's football, over the last few years, exploded in their development. It's tactically and technically on an incredibly high level. The intensity of the games - physically it's really, really good and I love watching it. Congratulations to all the teams that were a part of it because it is a commercial for football, not only women's football.

Obviously, Liverpool was in the last years not famous for treating or dealing with women's football outstandingly well. They didn't go down to the Championship for no reason....Now they are back and we have to make sure that we use the situation. It is a wonderful team, great coach and I'm really happy for them to get promoted.

Maybe Klopp is the best manager in the world at creating teams who attack [...] I don’t think there is another team in the world attacking in this way with so many players capable of launching moves in an instant. [...] When Klopp speaks about his football being heavy metal, I understand completely. It is so aggressive. For the fans it is really good.

How do you explain to a blind person what colour is?

For me, football is the only thing more inspiring than the cinema. You wake up in the morning, and the magic was all real.

They're like the Chinese in business: they see what other people are doing and copy it - just with more money

I think it was my first red card as a manager, I went to the assistant referee and I said: ‘How many wrong decisions are allowed? Because if it’s 15 we have one left.’

It is not my sport. I don’t like winning with 80% [possession]. Sorry that is not enough for me. Fighting football, not serenity football, that is what I like. What we call in German ‘English’ — rainy day, heavy pitch, 5-5, everybody is dirty in the face and goes home and cannot play for weeks after.

That’s the problem these days, whatever bullshit you say nobody will forget it.

Sending players off on international duty feels like seeing daughter off on first date, even if it is a good guy, you are slightly concerned

We will wait for him like a good wife waiting for her husband who is in jail.

Mkhitaryan fits us like an arse on a bucket. What he offers is exactly what we need.

He likes having the ball, playing football, passes. It's like an orchestra. But it's a silent song. I like heavy metal.

We have a bow and arrow and if we aim well, we can hit the target. The problem is that Bayern has a bazooka.