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Five eye-opening Jurgen Klopp comments including spiky Florian Wirtz remark and Man Utd joke

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I don't think it's like that but I've only worked in this football business so maybe it's just working here. So you learn, you try to do it the right way and show players respect but at one point, it's never enough and you have to accept that as well, because the players, they grow, they get bigger and bigger and at one point, you hear years later - he never spoke to me, another player says about a former coach, about me, [or] Jose Mourinho."I always tried that when we had arguments [with players], we always found a way out and it never got carried into the team that I lost [their] respect, they [never] lost respect for me because I act that way.



That's not for me.' And then, the pure, pure football project comes up with Liverpool."Man United jokeUnited are still a long way from where they were under Sir Ferguson, but Bartlett - a Manchester United fan - has complete faith in the new team working behind the scenes.Bartlett said: "I fully believe in Ruben Amorim, I think he's a man who's focused on culture and I like how honest he is. You have to get through this and I'm pretty sure he had super moments at Liverpool."We had super moments together and on my last day, if I was him, I would have thought as well, 'okay, come on, the next one is a new chance for me' because players do that.

If it goes really well for them, it's not that they think that it's thanks to the coach."If it's not going well, they think, 'he doesn't bring me on enough, it's not my fault,' but we are humans, we are all the same. So it's not that they are special in that moment and some of them think, 'I have to do more, in week one, two and three and three weeks more, he's still not picking me,' you cannot always have harmony and flowers and all these kind of things."It's a competitive environment and you have to perform to get what you think you deserve."Did you decide you wanted to sign Darwin?