Liverpool saw the championship on the couch on Thursday, as the club can no longer be pushed out of the top of the table after a defeat by Manchester City seven games before the end. And the Reds still have to wait for the next home game. A first official honor will be given to the team of coach Jürgen Klopp on the next match day: If the reigning champion performs at the predecessor in Manchester, the team will stand tall. City coach Pep Guardiola announced this. “We will of course take over the honor guard,” said Guardiola. “We will give Liverpool an indescribable welcome when they come to us. We will do it because they deserve it.”
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The feeling seems to be mutual. Klopp had already paid respect to his colleague on Saturday. “He is the best of all the coaches I know,” he told the “Bild” newspaper. Klopp said that he himself would find it a little strange if some people would call him that. “I can’t do anything with it, even though I was very happy to receive FIFA’s award,” he said of this year’s award for being the best coach by the World Football Association.
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Although he had been very successful with Liverpool FC in recent years, he also had a good coaching staff and an excellent team to thank for that. “If I have a strength, it is to bring good people together,” said the 53-year-old, who was German champion and DFB Cup winner with Borussia Dortmund.
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