Adam Lallana has admitted that he needed to “Google” Jurgen Klopp following the German’s appointment as Liverpool supervisor in October 2015.
- Reds made managerial change in 2015
- German coach has delivered main honours
- Ex-England worldwide is now a giant fan
WHAT HAPPENED? The Reds discovered themselves available in the market for a brand new boss after taking the choice to sever ties with Brendan Rodgers. A person that had loved appreciable success with Bundesliga giants Borussia Dortmund was lured to English soccer, however Lallana nonetheless needed to examine who his new boss was and what ‘gegenpressing’ meant.
WHAT THEY SAID: Lallana, who joined Liverpool in 2014 and spent six years at Anfield, has stated within the new docuseries, ‘JURGEN’, which is being produced by the Anfield Wrap: “I bear in mind being on worldwide responsibility and him getting introduced. I bear in mind typing his identify into Google and seeing what kind of soccer he favored. As a result of clearly, I had a troublesome first 12 months and I used to be trying to kick on in my Liverpool profession. I bear in mind it saying he likes gegenpressing and I used to be like, ‘what’s gegenpressing?’ You have a look at it and it was nearly like a type of counter-pressing and working, and I believed that is the kind of soccer I like taking part in. He thrives off and desires his crew to play with emotion. There is not any higher manner than setting the instance as a supervisor which is what he did day in, day trip.”
THE BIGGER PICTURE: Lallana took in 178 appearances for Liverpool, lots of them underneath Klopp, and left for Brighton in 2020 as a Champions League and Premier League title winner.
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WHAT NEXT? Liverpool have been urged to get again to their gegenpressing finest in 2022-23, with an inconsistent begin to the season leaving them sixth within the Premier League desk forward of a return to top-flight motion away at Aston Villa on December 26.