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“It was all my responsibility for all the time because yes, I don’t decide money, but all the rest [of] it was in my hands from a specific moment on,” Klopp said when speaking about the period following Ward’s departure. “We brought in Jorg Schmadtke, the German sporting director, because we didn’t have a sporting director at that time in fact.
And the only guys who were always there were we, the coaches and the football team.” Asked who was ‘doing the sporting director stuff’, Klopp replied: “Us and together in that one window with Jorg Schmadtke, the lawyers, the scouts.” Jurgen Klopp explains Darwin Nunez transfer decision The transfer that is often brought up when noting how Klopp assumed a wider role is Darwin Nunez‘s move to Liverpool. “We decided it all together in that process.
We wanted to have an extra option, like we had Bobby (Firmino) always for the best false-nine in the world and now we needed somebody with a bit more speed and stuff like this… “We had to change as well. What kind of player don’t we have?