Jurgen Klopp talking about his life in Liverpool and his Future
With Liverpool top of the league at Christmas for the first time since 2013, the Reds' boss gave Sky Sports a Christmas gift of an exclusive interview with Vinny O'Connor to talk candidly about how he's finding the top job at Anfield.
The pair discussed how the Klopps celebrate Christmas, how he's enjoying life in the north west - apart from the weather, of course - Liverpool's 2018 and what the future will hold for the German.
Here's what the Liverpool manager had to say...
What's your plan on Christmas Day?
In your country, it's celebrated on the 25th, but in Germany, the 'holy evening' is the 24th. So for the 25th, I asked the boys how they want to do it. We know we have to train, that's it, but I'm flexible enough to say 'come on, tell me about your traditions'.
We will train early in the morning and then the boys go home, have their Christmas Day traditional things with the family, then we meet again late in the evening and go to the hotel ahead of the Newcastle game.
It's already a challenge to deal with a home game, but an away game is something you cannot really do as families should. I know people don't think about it, but players in that age group have a lot of little kids, so we try to make it as comfortable as possible.
What do you miss most about being home at Christmas?
The holiday! We usually had it off in Germany. I know my colleagues in Germany are planning on going to some warm-weather places, or skiing or stuff like that, our kids were old enough so we didn't have to think too much about what we did on the 24th, we went somewhere either warm or cold and had a good time together.
I don't really miss it, it's not a big problem, I think Christmas is such a wonderful time and I still have time to have it here, but I imagine for the players, people involved in football with little kids it's not cool. For 15 or so years you are involved in football, 15 years with no real Christmas, that must be hard.
Could you stay at Liverpool beyond 2022?
I don't want to think that far ahead. If you write that already, a lot of people will speak. Everything is good at the moment, but still, 'Klopp didn't win anything'.
I haven't won anything so that's part of the truth, we don't have to think about 2022, it's a long way to go. In the summer, there will be people who say it's the best time for me to go if we win something because we will never win anything again, there will be other people who say I have to go if we don't win anything.
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