Successful coach Jürgen Klopp has announced that he will be leaving Liverpool FC at the end of the season. Someone who has become very close to Klopp in his eight and a half years at the traditional British club is his Dutch assistant coach Pep Lijnders. In August, Stern met Lijnders for an interview at the training camp in Donaueschingen. In the conversation, the 40-year-old gave insightful insights into the joint training work and spoke about his German boss’s unique motivational skills. Against the background of Klopp’s current resignation announcement, the conversation takes on a different tone, so we are publishing it again here.

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