Peter Moore explains why the two sides of Klopp make him so unique

Peter Moore says Jurgen Klopp is “incredibly gregarious” and has explained exactly why the German coach is so unique.

Twenty two points clear of their closest rival, Klopp, 52, is on the verge of claiming Liverpool’s first top-flight championship for 30 years, just 12 months on from winning the Champions League.

The former Borussia Dortmund coach is revered on Merseyside and with a win ratio of 61% his record, since his appointment in October 2015, is quite simply superb.

Reds chief executive Moore, who was speaking at a Q&A at Cape Town Official Liverpool Supporters Club, was asked about the cultural change brought about following Klopp’s appointment four and a half years ago.

“I think what you see what Jurgen Klopp on the television – a lot of managers, what they are like in front of the cameras or when they’re being interviewed, they’re different than in real life. Well, that’s not the case with Jurgen Klopp,” Moore told Soccer Laduma.

“The situation with Jurgen is that you’ve got a German manager that has all the Germanic tendencies of detail, of focus, of looking at the opposition in an incredibly analytical way.

“What he’s done in the four years is rebuild his coaching squad [but] more importantly to invest in sports science and a completely different structure. What Jurgen is able to do is bring in some of the world’s best – a head of nutrition, Mona Nemmer, he acquired from Bayern Munich.

“We have a throw-in coach, Thomas Gronnemark, right? So, Jurgen, in a classic Germanic way said, ‘there’s probably 25 throw-ins a game. That’s our possession. How do we get better at throw-ins? How do we teach our players to throw the ball immediately into the feet? How do you analyze the best option?’, so that level of detail.

“The flip side of who he is, is one of the more gregarious human beings you’ll ever meet. So you have this unique and very different combo [to what you would] see in most human beings. Left side of the brain, analytical in that Germanic way.

“But he’s a liberal, left-winger in the right side of his brain, where everybody gets a hug, everybody gets a pat on the back of the head, everybody gets a whisper. He’s incredibly tactile and, as I say, he’s incredibly gregarious…”

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