Jurgen Klopp sends emotional new message to Liverpool fans - 'Nobody has to say thank you'

Jürgen Klopp

Jurgen Klopp thanked Liverpool fans for their support during his nine years at Anfield as he reflected fondly on his decorated career at the club.

The former Reds boss was in charge for close to a decade before leaving in May 2024 and won every top-level trophy available to the club, including a first league title for 30 years, in 2020, and the 2019 Champions League.

Klopp forged a bond with the club's worldwide fanbase during his time on Merseyside and recently returned to a hero's ovation when the Liverpool Legends played out a 2-2 draw with their Borussia Dortmund counterparts in a friendly match for the LFC Foundation at Anfield.

Klopp, who the Foundation's honorary ambassador, was speaking to former Reds striker Peter Crouch on a podcast that was released on Wednesday morning and the iconic former manager explained what the supporters still mean to him.

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"I mean we had a good time and nobody, I mean it, nobody has to say thank you to me or whatever and I hear it quite often,"

“Because I have to say thank you for the exact same reasons. I do it all the time when I see people: 'Oh thank you, for supporting us over the years.'

"So it is just what we needed was what we experienced and it just was our life. We tried to do absolutely everything to be as successful as possible and it worked sometimes, sometimes it didn't.

"We failed big, we failed in moments and the thing is this is what I always wanted, when I am old, looking back and having a smile on my face

“Nobody can think back to these nine years without a smile on their face because it was just great. Everything about it, how connected we were.

"So I understand 100% why people are happy when they see me because I stand for this period. And I am as happy as they are when I see them because they stand for this period [also].

And yesterday when I saw these kids at the Anfield Community Centre and they were 10 [saying]:'I love you more than my dad!' And they were two or one or not even born when I arrived!"

The German, who is now head of global soccer at Red Bull, also believes he was able to build Liverpool up because he was given enough time to grow and improve the squad following his arrival in October 2015 when he succeeded Brendan Rodgers.

Klopp added: "Everything needs time. Life and in football, it's just that nobody gives you time. We were lucky enough to make immediate steps that everyone could see it was going in the right direction.

“"We could there but in the beginning it took a while until we won a game. We drew at home to West Brom and celebrated like we'd won the world championship. It all has to develop, has to grow and that is what we did.

"The players, they were fantastic, but to win the Premier League, you need special players and we brought them in step by step, year by year, with money we earned from other transfers and stuff like that.

"I would have loved to have played a full season with Philippe Coutinho, Bobby Firmino, Sadio [Mane] and Mo [Salah]. Wow. We had a few games where it looked really good and I had an idea that it could work and everyone knows what happened."

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