I Admire Diego Simeone – Klopp

Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp has said even if he is known for his dramatic displays of emotion on the touchline, Diego Simeone is worse than him.

Klopp believes Simeone is more wild than him and he admires him for it.

According to him, Diego’s teams are always world-class organized and this makes him one of the very best in the game.

He added that losing players like Godin, Griezmann, Juanfran, Gabi and so on has been tough on the Argentine and he surely needs time to make the players get used to his philosophy.

His words, “People say about me that I’m emotional on the sideline. If I’m on level four, I would say Diego is on level 12 or so,”

“It’s really like I’m the Kindergarten Cop against him.

“That’s over all those years, eight years, that’s really long and still having this emotional level, wow, that’s absolutely impressive.

“His teams are always world-class organised, so that makes him one of the best. We met once or twice, exchanged some messages after big defeats or big wins and tomorrow in a really competitive game we meet for the first time, it will be interesting.”

“I can understand it, that’s football. Eight years here, seven of them, probably more successful than Atletico was for… 50 years? I don’t know exactly the club’s history.

“Then you have to make big a change, you lose [Diego] Godin, you lose [Antoine] Griezmann, you lose Juanfran and you lose Gabi maybe even a year before. That’s tough. You have to change the team, bring in new players, they have to get used to your philosophy and style. That takes time, people don’t give you time.

“For me it looks like they will qualify for the Champions League this year which would be incredible again in a transition year. Then next year they will be further in the right direction and will attack Spain again. I don’t think Atletico people are too concerned.”