Mohamed Salah has revealed his shock at Jurgen Klopp’s exit, having first and foremost opinion Virgil van Dijk used to be winding him up.
The German stunned the football world in January when he announced he could well maybe be standing down as supervisor at the stop of the season.
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Klopp, who’s at the moment the longest-serving supervisor at a single club in the English football pyramid, had been contracted at Liverpool till 2026.
But the 56-twelve months-former has blamed fatigue as his rationalization for leaving, having been pushing for silverware since becoming a member of the club in 2015.
And Salah, who used to be introduced to Liverpool by Klopp from Roma in 2017, used to be left with exact one build a query to when he came upon out- ‘Why?’
Speaking to Sky Sports activities, Salah reflected on how he reacted on the day Klopp announced to the squad he could well maybe be departing Anfield.
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He said: “It used to be queer, usually we don’t attain conferences at 10.30am, that is in any appreciate times document times, 12am is working towards.
“After which they said there used to be a gathering at 10.30, I used to be like, ‘What?’
“[Klopp’s] agent used to be here, and I used to be like, ‘Oh he’s renewing his contract!’
“Resulting from usually there is not any assembly at that point, then 5 minutes sooner than the assembly, Virgil is telling me, ‘Attain what the assembly is ready?’
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“I used to be like, ‘No,’ he said, ‘The supervisor is leaving’, I sigh, ‘You serious?’
“He said, ‘Yeah’, I sigh, ‘Why?’, he said, ‘No idea,’ then the supervisor got here in and every person is asking, then he said it.
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“It used to be so queer because nobody knew sooner than, there used to be nothing in the media, he didn’t even put together us for that, he exact said it one time.
“I used to be like, ‘OK’. That used to be a queer day for us, but that is football.”
In what is Klopp’s closing season with Liverpool, they could well maybe stop the season by worthwhile a historic quadruple.
The Reds bask in already scooped the Carabao Cup and lead the Premier League, while peaceable being looking for the FA Cup and Europa League.
And could well maybe peaceable they beat opponents Manchester City on Sunday, few would bet towards the Reds from claiming top-flight glory to give Klopp the staunch send-off.
