Jamie Carragher has been speaking about the one thing he doesn’t think Jurgen Klopp does enough at Liverpool.
Jurgen Klopp has pretty much gotten everything right since he arrived at Liverpool. The club’s manager transformed the Reds from doubters to believers and pretty much changed everything around at Liverpool.
In that process, Klopp has built the most successful Liverpool team of the modern era. He has brought icons to the club like Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah, who will be remembered at Anfield for an eternity.
But while Klopp has pretty much done everything right, according to Jamie Carragher, there is one thing he should have gotten more involved with. Something which has become especially apparent during Klopp’s final international break this month.
What Jamie Carragher has said about Jurgen Klopp
Speaking on The Overlap with Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher spoke about the international break, and about how Manchester City’s players have been pulling out of their national team squads, left, right and centre.
Carragher revealed that this was something Klopp should have embraced at Liverpool as well. And that he should have encouraged his players to pull out of national team duty more often.
“I get frustrated at Liverpool because I don’t think we do it enough,” Carragher said.
“Pull people out of internationals. Jurgen Klopp was telling Gareth Southgate to play Gomez, I was like ‘oh,’ he added.
Is Jamie Carragher right about Jurgen Klopp?
It’s true that City have had a lot of players pull out from international duty during the most recent break. However, so have Liverpool. Both Mohamed Salah and Darwin Nunez missed the international break with slight niggles, and they will be fit to face Brighton at the weekend.
Considering they are Liverpool’s most important players in attack, you can’t exactly complain about Manchester City having their players doing something similar.
On top of that, Klopp is also a brilliant man manager and places his players’ best interest first before the team. This means he wants them playing for their countries and doing well. Which is why his players love to play under Klopp. He genuinely just wants them to succeed.
If he wasn’t like that, then there is an argument to be had that Klopp may not have enjoyed the same success at Liverpool as he has done. Being a good man manager is essential to the way he functions at Anfield.