It got here as a shock to us all when Jurgen Klopp introduced he was leaving, and Alexis Mac Allister was no totally different.
The Argentine has now revealed how he discovered, saying it was Mo Salah who truly instructed him first, about 5 minutes earlier than the information turned public.
Chatting with TyC Sports activities, Mac Allister recalled: “It was a loopy second. In an surprising assembly, we discovered 5 minutes earlier than it was recognized publicly.
“I used to be sitting subsequent to Mo Salah. I requested him and he instructed me ‘the supervisor goes’.
“I believed that he was going right away, however after he instructed us, I understood that it was when the season was ending. It’s a private resolution.
“He has been right here for a few years and we wish the very best for him. This motivated us way more as a result of we have now to make it very particular. His departure must be actually lovely.”
The story Mac Allister tells is the same one to what was reported quickly after the occasions, with a choose few senior gamers being instructed shortly earlier than the remainder of the gamers.
Later that day, in his press convention, Klopp defined: “The 2 essential issues I needed to do was inform our supporters and to inform the gamers, and I don’t know one hundred pc concerning the response of the supporters however the response of the gamers was high.
“It was actually good, we’ve recognized one another so lengthy, they know I don’t say issues like that stroll away or stuff like this.
“We’ve got so many different issues to do and I’m totally in that. So there’s not a whole lot of emotion but, I’ve had a whole lot of talks within the final days after I needed to inform individuals barely sooner than I needed to inform the general public.
“There have been some tears however that’s regular after such a very long time collectively, however moreover that, it’s simply the correct factor to do.
“The membership wants time to plan the longer term whereas we’re sorting the current, and that’s precisely what is going to occur now. The gamers, we have now a extremely sturdy bond, in order that they didn’t ask questions but as a result of we’re professionals.
“The boys are in a extremely good temper, it was not that they had been getting up and having a celebration after I instructed them however it was simply an announcement.”
I’m unsure all of us held it collectively in addition to the gamers did however, like Mac Allister needs, not less than the Reds are nicely on their approach to giving him a becoming send-off.