Jurgen Klopp is well known for his pre-match ritual of watching Liverpool's rival players from the halfway line.
While the Reds boss has denied it, some pundits and players have shared their belief that it is a tactic to intimidate opposition teams.
Carragher and Neville discussed Klopp's pre-match ritual of observing the opposition before matches
Neville
"You want to know one of the best things, and obviously I don’t see what Jürgen Klopp does each day, but one of the best things that I think he does, is standing in the warm-up,"
"He stands there, 6 foot 3, and stares at the opposition, at the closest point to the team warming up, and he’s looking at them right in the eye, he does it every week. It’s intimidation."
Carragher meanwhile, has pointed out the 'clever' tactic carried out by West Ham boss David Moyes
Carragher
"I remember in an interview Klopp got asked about why he stares at the opposition during the warm-up, and he said it wasn’t to be intimidating, it was to see what they were doing,"
"I don’t believe that, but he said something about playing Borussia Dortmund in his first season at Liverpool in the Europa League, and I’m sure he said that he does that to let the opposition know that I’m the Liverpool manager and that I wasn’t at Dortmund anymore.
"What I have seen is other managers, whether they’ve got a good relationship with him, go and speak to him – I’ve seen David Moyes do it a lot – and I think that’s actually quite a clever thing to do.
"I’m joining him, and we’re having a little chat, so he’s not actually looking at our team.
"I don’t know if he actually gets on with him well, but I’ve seen Moyes do it a couple of times and I have looked at it and thought - I think that’s what I’d do if I was a manger, I would go and speak to him - to make sure the players don’t almost feel like Klopp has got his eyes on them."
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