Klopp's pre-match press conference vs Brighton Hove Albion:
Patience
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“[Patience] is always important in football, but you still have to try to create it, it’s just more of a mindset then really something you see on the pitch,” Klopp told reporters.
“They need to be lively, fluid and all that stuff but patience is important. It’s pretty rare that you can win in the first minute, it’s much more likely you can win it in the last minute. That’s not new to us.
“The Aston Villa game was really difficult, a lot of games are difficult in the league but you cannot compare the games now with the other games.
On Brighton
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“They are a really good football team, I really think what they did over the last year is really incredible.
“A relegation battle last year and implementing a new style, proper football style. It’s interesting and my colleague [Graham Potter] is doing a really good job.
“Since lockdown, they changed their approach a little bit and they went for results. We don’t know exactly what we will face, a team in a good run and pretty much full of confidence. We need to be ready for that.
“One of the things we need [for the rest of the season] is patience, but it’s not something I ask for before the game because we will find out how patient we need to be – but first and foremost I want us to be active, lively, creative and I want us to be really solid.”
On drink break session
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It is a very good idea. The guys on the Tour de France use drinks when needed not just when it is sunny. I like it from a sports fans point of view it's good. I don't think it will be like this after for next season but maybe it will be.
It's really good. It's for the players not the coaches. I have 10 seconds to speak to them so it is not coaching.
Premier League medal & backroom staff
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“I’m not sure they are little [things]. They are not in public, but they are massive,” he explained.
“If we wouldn’t have Mona Nemmer during lockdown, I’m pretty sure the majority of our players would have died of starvation! Because it’s difficult to organise from one day to the other.
“The things were all different for all of us, but being really famous out there and going out for grocery shopping and stuff like this, it would have been really difficult.
“If Korny, Andreas Kornamyer, wouldn’t have done the job he did, then the players would have all come back five kilos heavier.
“There are no little things in this process, there are only things which you see in public and things you don’t see in public, but we appreciate that all exactly in the same manner.
“I never understood 100 percent why people make a cut, who gets a medal and who doesn’t get a medal, but the medal actually you get here [in your head] and maybe here [in your heart].
“It’s not so important if you really have it in the end, because you don’t look at it every day.
“It’s much more important that you are involved and that we show the appreciation and respect that we have for all the people who are involved in that process.
“So it’s not important, but for a player for example, maybe it’s more important than for other people who are involved in it.
“We will find a way to show how much we appreciate what everybody has done, and if there’s a medal needed for it, then we will create our own one.
“But we will never forget it anyway, so all good.”
On local player breakthrough
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“I don’t know if it will always be possible, to be honest,” he said.
“I think it’s a bit easier for the London clubs, because I’m not sure if you have to come from Chelsea directly to be a ‘local lad’ or whatever, or if it’s allowed that you are from another part of London.
“But we try, we try. What we want to be is the spot for everybody with a Scouse soul, where he wants to play.
“It’s not a competition with Everton or whatever, that we can do one or the other, but we want to be [the destination].
“If you love football, if you are talented, if you are ready to work hard, then we want you to be here.
“But for that, we need to show the boys that there is a way through.
“Maybe not for the kids, the very young ones it’s enough that we have a nice shirt and that we are Liverpool, but then when they get older, we have to show perspective. That’s our responsibility.
“It’s really nice that the boys are now so close to it, that Trent made it, that the three others are really close to getting through.
“That’s an important sign for all the other kids around, that this is a club where you can have pretty much everything.
“You can play together with world-class players, you can train together with them and if you can make sure that you improve as much as you can, then the club is ready to give you a chance. That’s a very important message.
“That it will always be the case, that depends on the boys.
“We cannot create a football player if the football player is not ready for it, but if you are a talented boy, and have the desire to improve, the door is really wide open.”
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“We only have the boys here, not because they are nice, humble, good-looking, whatever; they are here because we want to [use them],” he continued.
“In the moment, mainly they get the benefit from what we do for them, but that’s a fair deal, because in the end, we get the benefit from what they are doing.
“That’s how it is and that’s how you do it with your kids and all that stuff.
“So what pleased me most about it is that the boys are so humble and so hardworking in that age group.
“The perfect scenario is that we have these role-model professionals around, these slightly older guys, that just show how you have to be if you want to make your way.
“If the boys follow this path, with the talent that they have, it’s pretty likely that they will have a proper career, so that’s good news.
“We need luck, injury-wise, stuff like this, but here we will always try to use them as often as possible.
“The dream is, and it will not happen in the next five years, but maybe in 10 years it would be great if we could have a team full of Scousers. Why not?
“Because that’s not a bad thing to be a Scouser, it’s a good thing. They are hardworking, they will fight like crazy, so a few things are really nice already in the characteristic of a Scouser.
“So good, but the door is open as well for all the other boys who want to play football, good football.
“Liverpool is a very, very open-minded club, so it doesn’t have to be 10 Scousers, but if they are around, no problem with that.”
On Rhian Brewster
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“The plan with Rhian we will talk to Rhian and not here,” Klopp told reporters during his pre-match press conference.
“It was unbelievably important and I was really happy that we had the opportunity to [send him on loan], that he plays his ‘first proper senior year’.
“He had an awful injury so he needed a really long time and that’s why we said when he was coming back that it doesn’t make a lot of sense to be here, to be striker number two, three and sometimes in the squad and sometimes not.
“It was clear his situation was different to a lot of other situations for the boys at the club and he was really happy he could go to his former coach who he knew from the youth national teams.
“That helped a lot and they really wanted him. That is very important for a young striker because you cannot score every week and you should still stay on the pitch.
“It happened now at Swansea, played a good season and Rhian shows his talent absolutely, that’s clear. In the moment, nearly perfect but how it will be exactly next year we will talk about with him and his representatives.”
Sadio Mane
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“In the last few years this team has made massive progress, it’s nice to talk about the young players but the difference was made by all the other players,” said Klopp, in his pre-match press conference.
He added: “They got us in the situation that we are in, and it only worked because each year we made big steps, and Sadio is a very good example.
“I remember this unbelievably talented boy that we could get from Southampton, outstanding skill-wise but a little lack of consistency.
“That’s probably why a lot of people thought ‘really, so much money, I’m not sure he’s worth it’.
“We were 100 per cent sure about him, but consistency was the key and now the level that he performs is unbelievable.
“He helps us massively, he’s the complete player – offensively and defensively he works hard.
“I could pretty much write the same book about all the other players as well, but Sadio made real steps, but that’s normal.
“He came as a young boy here, and he grew up and matured here, that’s the time of his career when it was clear that it will happen.
“We were lucky enough to be around when that happened, and for sure we did a few things from a tactical point of view, they helped the boys because they could be themselves and play the football they are best in.
“Sadio is a good example for the improvement of the whole squad, because he has obviously improved a lot in the last few years, and from a very high level already.
“He came in a really good player, now he is a world class player, no doubt about that and he is a winner on top of that.”
Jun 28 2020, 09:17 AM, updated 6y ago
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both lose bcuz karius flop and adrian flop 
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