Rafael van der Vaart responds to Jurgen Klopp comments after stinging Virgil van Dijk jibe

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"He is a manager I would have loved to play under."All the players go through fire for him and I like his passion for the game. In terms of what he said about me, I don`t care at all."I am not the type of person who gets mad or anything.

I talk to the person, I am not deaf. I understand the questions and will say what I see, not what I have to say."I did that as a player and I do that now as well.

Not their personality, but their abilities as a player.“I am so positive about so many players, but when I see something I don`t like or they are playing a bad game, I should be allowed to say it. I have to say what I see.“You know, sometimes my colleagues in the media industry think they don`t want to criticise too much because they can see the player the day after, but that`s how it is."I am also seeing players the day after I said they played a bad game, but when I see him everything is normal.