Jurgen Klopp once messaged former Liverpool star to say he ‘misses’ him, he never got a reply

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It is not often that Liverpool regret letting a player leave.The Reds are pretty shrewd operators in the transfer market and are always pretty good at both signing and selling players.Like every club, though, they do occasionally get things wrong, with there being situations where they have allowed players to leave when they probably should have tried to keep hold of them.Join our newsletter for news & smart analysis. One of these instances occurred under Jurgen Klopp, and although fans were probably not too annoyed to see this player go, the German was after messaging him shortly after his exit.Photo by Mike Kireev/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesJurgen Klopp texted Dejan Lovren to say Liverpool missed himDejan Lovren arrived at Liverpool in 2014 for £20m, which at the time, seemed like a lot given that he was always just a decent centre-back and never an elite level one.However, he did the job at the Reds and played over 100 times for them, with the Croatian then moving on in 2020 to join Zenit.At the time, Liverpool fans were probably not too bothered as he had slowly turned into a bit-part player, but due to the injuries they had that season, it was perhaps a mistake to let him go.Klopp clearly thought the same as Lovren revealed back in 2021 that he had a message from his former manager saying the club ‘misses’ him, although the defender admitted he did not bother replying.“I never regret anything and this is a feeling I don’t allow in my head,” he said in an interview with Zenit.“I made the decision to leave Liverpool.

I wasn’t feeling happy there towards the end, because I wasn’t playing.READ MORE: Ian Rush once explained why he ‘didn’t like’ Kenny Dalglish when first met him at Liverpool “I am happy that I decided to come here and I think they miss me more than I miss them.“Jurgen Klopp knows that, we sometimes chat and he once wrote to me that he misses me. I did not answer that.”Where has Dejan Lovren been since Liverpool?Lovren stayed at Anfield for six years and played 185 games, with the then-31-year-old joining Zenit for £10.9m.After two years in Russia, he returned to one of his former clubs Lyon, with the 36-year-old leaving for PAOK where he plays his football today.Lovren will always be known as a solid centre-back option who very much ‘did the job’ for the Reds, although the way he speaks might suggest that he thinks he was a little better than that.However, he left as a Premier League and Champions League winner so perhaps he has a point, and with all things considered, perhaps he was sold a year too early.