Liverpool’s season has turn out to be about giving Jurgen Klopp the send-off he deserves, and that message was clear to the squad as soon as the stunning nature of his announcement began to go.
Trent Alexander-Arnold has solely recognized Klopp as his supervisor as an expert participant, the German handed him his debut and helped mould him into the world-class participant he’s right this moment.
The appropriate-back acknowledged Klopp’s announcement in January was a “full shock to all of us,” with none of them having “seen it coming” – very similar to the remainder of us!
Alexander-Arnold went on to say it “shook up the dressing room for a few hours,” earlier than revealing the message that got here from the squad within the wake of the information.
“One of many messages that us gamers spoke about immediately, as quickly because it occurred, was he’s accomplished a lot for us,” Alexander-Arnold informed Sky Sports activities earlier than the win over Brighton.
“Whether or not it’s bringing us in, growing us or bringing us by way of the academy, regardless of the journey, we have now all ended up collectively, and it’s due to him.
“It’s due to how effectively he manages us, and he desires us within the crew and in and round it,” he continued. “All of us owe one thing to the supervisor, it doesn’t matter what, and all of us simply wish to give him the very best send-off attainable.
“We spoke about that, we stated, ‘it’s what he deserves, we are able to use it as extra motivation’. It’s form of just like the final dance, and we go on the market and we give it all the pieces and try to do it for the supervisor.”
Nobody would should exit on the last word excessive greater than Klopp, his affect and affect at Liverpool will reverberate for years and many years to return.
However the vice-captain was additionally eager to specific the gamers’ ambitions amid all of the starvation to present the supervisor a golden send-off.
The No. 66 defined: “We all know our motivations, earlier than or after the supervisor introduced his information, we knew what our objectives and targets have been.
“It’s one other motivating issue, we use it to our benefit and don’t let it stress us. We all know we wish to assist him exit with a giant parade, a giant send-off.
“However as gamers we wish that, it’s additionally us, it’s our final season with him as effectively, and I’m a participant who spent his complete profession beneath the supervisor so I’ve recognized no completely different.
“I need it to finish on a excessive as effectively.”
9 league cup finals to go, and, hopefully, 5 in Europe!
