‘He’s a workaholic… that’s in our blood’: Jurgen Klopp’s friend Klinsmann says Liverpool boss will already be thinking about winning NEXT year’s Champions League
- Jurgen Klinsmann has been singing the praises of compatriot Jurgen Klopp
- Klopp lifted his first title at Liverpool on Saturday by winning Champions League
- The German manager has transformed Liverpool since his arrival back in 2015
- Klinsmann says Klopp will already be thinking about next season’s competition
Jurgen Klinsmann has been singing the praises of Jurgen Klopp, claiming he will already be thinking about winning next season’s Champions League.
Klopp lifted his first title at Liverpool on Saturday night in Madrid following the 2-0 victory over Premier League rivals Tottenham in the Champions League final.
Since the German manager’s arrival on Merseyside in 2015, Klopp has transformed Liverpool and Klinsmann suggests his compatriots success is down to his ‘workaholic’ approach.
Jurgen Klopp will be desperate to lift more trophies at Liverpool after Champions League glory
Klopp and Klinsmann came from villages close to each other in Baden-Wurttemberg, a state in the south west of Germany.
‘He’s a workaholic because that’s in our blood where we come from,’ the former Germany manager said on a Channel 4 documentary as quoted by the Mirror.
‘He’s sponge, that always wants to learn and always wants to look at what is next…and it never gets saturated.
‘One thing is for sure he will never, ever rest. Winning the Champions League Final now, the first thought of him a day later will be, ‘how do I win this next year?’
‘So he will never be satisfied…he doesn’t stop. It’s just in his nature that he always wants to keep going and going and going.
Jurgen Klinsmann has been singing the praises of the triumphant Liverpool manager
‘He will be working on it now, how he can move the pieces to make it even better.’
Klinsmann will have been disappointed with the result in Madrid, seeing his former team Tottenham lose at the final hurdle but he certainly does not begrudge Klopp because of his intense work ethic.
The pair became managerial rivals when Klinsmann was manager of Bayern Munich between 2008-09, coming up against Klopp soon after he moved to Borussia Dortmund.
Former Tottenham player Klinsmann was speaking on a Channel 4 documentary, which examined the two coaches – Klopp and Mauricio Pochettino – ahead of last Saturday’s European final.
Klinsmann has labelled his compatriot and former managerial rival Klopp as a ‘workaholic’