Liverpool icon Jurgen Klopp reveals real reason he rejected Man United job and FSG offer

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"So, United was that big 'we get all the players we want, we get him, we get him, we get him' and I was sitting there like 'huh?'."It was not my project, it didn't feel like my project, it was the wrong time but on top of that, it was not my project. Bringing him back never helps, in that time in 2013, it was not about Cristiano, maybe Paul I'm not sure but the idea was, 'we bring the best players together then let's go'."Not at all [about the football] then I sat there like it wasn't for me.

After that, it was pretty special."Explaining why he feels it has gone wrong at Old Trafford, the 58-year-old added: "I haven't thought for a second since joining Liverpool what United did right or wrong."I went to Liverpool and in that moment you became our opponent, not my enemy, but an important opponent, one that is much more fun to beat."Always in football, like in life, you only find a solution now knowing you have two day later another problem. There's no long term, 'we have to deal with that for another two day then we can sort it'."We would have to deal with it for a year or two then we can make a big step, in a football case, contracts are running out, player goes anyway, sell him but because you're in such a rush all the time just because you have to win the next game."For United, in the years when they were not happy they would buy the time, Jose coming second, no one was happy.

In that time second was not good enough and now you're not even close to that but that's not a Man United story, it's a football story.Sky Sports discounted Premier League and EFL packageThis article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. I don't know the United problems but Liverpool was the same, on the day we sold Phil Coutinho, that's not the day I thought, 'oh, good we have the money' I lost a player I wanted to work with for the next 10 years."We invested it smartly that's true but it's not we found the position and sorted it, we had to sort something differently, we found two players in Alisson and [Virgil] Van Dijk, that was for the future to go from there and that's the difference I think."