Jurgen Klopp admitted he had big 'regret' about treatment of one Liverpool player during final season at the club
Jurgen Klopp admitted that he regretted one thing during his final season as head coach of Liverpool.
Klopp, 57, left Liverpool at the end of the 2023/24 campaign and has since been without a managerial role – although he is the Global Head of Soccer at Red Bull.
And despite new Reds boss Arne Slot taking the Premier League by storm - with his side currently 15 points clear of second-place Arsenal with just nine games left to play – Klopp has cemented his legacy at Anfield and will be fondly remembered by Liverpool supporters around the world.
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The German won Liverpool’s first league title in 30 years in 2020, having led his side to the club’s sixth Champions League crown a year prior.
However, despite the success he enjoyed at the club, he admitted that he still had regrets when speaking in a press conference in May 2024.
“It’s not that I go back and think ‘OK, what did we all do wrong?’,” said Klopp.
“But if I regret one thing a little bit, it’s that Harvey [Elliott] didn’t play often enough maybe.”
Elliott, 21, was signed by Klopp in 2019, having come through the ranks at Fulham. Since then, he has been part of teams that have won two Carabao Cups, the UEFA Super Cup and the Club World Cup, but has failed to nail down a guaranteed starting place at the Reds.
This season, under the tutelage of Slot, he has registered four goals in 19 appearances, with his most important contribution coming in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 tie against Paris Saint-Germain when he scored a last-gasp winner at the Parc des Princes.
Although he was still named as a substitute for Liverpool’s 3-1 Premier League win against Southampton last Saturday, a decision slot admitted was tough to make.
“It’s always a difficult decision not to start Harvey, not to start Wata, not to start all the other ones that I don’t play,” Slot said in a press conference.
“But if someone comes in for five minutes, touches his first ball and scores a goal, then to change your whole idea about all the lineups you made before, that would be a bit weird as well.”
On Tuesday, well-respected journalist Florian Plettenberg named Elliott as a player who could leave Liverpool in the summer.
Topics: Liverpool, Jurgen Klopp, Harvey Elliott, Premier League, Champions League, Transfers, Football
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