"How are you? "Sound."
"How is this?" "Sound."
You barely could walk when I arrived at Liverpool.
Can I be honest here?
Love it, love it!
First question for you - how big an opportunity is it for all these kids
to be involved with Liverpool at such a young age?
Just eight years old and a chance to be part of this football club.
First and foremost - hi to all of you.
I don't know too much about that, because I grew up completely different.
I would have loved it, but I would really like to know how our future football stars see it.
That will be much more interesting, how does it feel for them?
OK, that's my rubbish question out the way, let's get to your better questions.
When you were young, what did your coach tell you to do when you played football?
My coach was actually the mailman from my home village,
so he worked the whole day and only came once a week for training.
But he told us, "Play as much football as you can."
And that's what we did.
What has been your best day in football so far?
I had a few really good ones. As a player I once scored four goals in a game,
that was for sure the best day of my playing time.
As a manager it's not that easy.
We got promoted with Mainz in Germany,
became champions with Dortmund,
won the double with Dortmund.
About the Liverpool things you know, but without winning something,
just for a game I would say the best moment is...
the Barcelona home game.
"Corner taken quickly." Eh?
That was for sure one of the best moments ever.
Hi, Jürgen.
Who's your all-time favourite player and why?
My favourite player - you don't know him, unfortunately -
it's Karlheinz Förster.
He was a centre-half at my favourite club,
the No. 4, was my favourite player,
and when I started playing professional football
we always got the number on our back randomly,
a little bit based on position,
but then during my career we got the opportunity to choose a fixed number,
and even when I was a striker at that time, I took the No. 4,
because of Karlheinz Förster.
Coincidentally or not, a little bit later I was a defender!
What is your favourite English restaurant and why?
Can I be honest here?!
I'm not 100% sure about the English food still.
When you are from Germany you are just used to other things,
but fish and chips I love.
Black pudding...I tried at least.
What's your favourite dish, sausage and mash?
I like any type of food.
That's good! That's normal in your age group, because you eat that much
that your parents think, "Wow, is it one boy or five?"
- Hi, Jürgen. - Hi, Dan.
It's great to see so many pre-Academy players, such as Trent and Curtis,
playing for the first team. What advice could you give me to help me one day achieve this?
Train, train, train - as much as you can.
Try to learn as much as you can,
become the best version of yourself, the best player you can be.
Whatever that means in the end.
Some other people, like me, make those decisions.
Enjoy football - very important - play as much as you can,
because most of the things you will not learn in training,
you learn by doing them wherever it is,
if you play with your friends, somewhere in the park,
or with your friends on the training ground,
that's where you learn the most.
What do you do when young players lose their confidence?
Confidence I think is based on positivity,
that means if you're experienced yourself...
You know as well, if you score a goal in a game,
you just think, "Next time I'm in a similar situation, I will score again."
Yeah.
That's what confidence is, so if you didn't score the last time, it might feel different.
What I try to do in these moments, I try to remind the boys of their real quality.
So, be confident, stay confident, because there's no reason for not being confident.
Thank you.
Welcome!
- Hi, Jürgen. - Hi, Alfie.
One day I'm gonna be your best central midfielder.
You will be? Oh, my God, I can't wait, Alfie!
I can't wait.
That's cool. So that's not a question, you know that, Alfie?
That's more...yeah, a statement.
I like that anyway.
Trent and Robbo are my favourite players,
I watched their TV programme and they said you dance like a dad.
Who do you think is a better dancer - Trent or Robbo?
Look, first of all, they are right. I had a few moments since I've been here
where I had a reason to dance.
I need reasons to dance, if we celebrate something,
I would not start dancing now probably.
Who is a better dancer? I think they are both not really skilled,
both a bit stiff.
They both stand in the corner and watch the others,
and laugh at the others who try to dance.
But I think it's a good choice for your favourite players,
are you a left or a right-back yourself?
I can play anywhere.
Can't wait. I can't wait.
I would like to wake up Josh. I think he fell asleep already in the beginning.
What made you come to Liverpool?
How old are you now?
Seven.
That means you were two years old when I joined Liverpool.
Before that I trained another club, that was Borussia Dortmund.
That's the team with the yellow shirts in Germany.
Really good team.
And then Liverpool called. And when you think a little about Liverpool
you think about the wonderful stadium, the big success in the past,
the great players who were here.
So I fancied it a lot,
and now it's already five years that I've been here.
You barely could walk when I arrived at Liverpool, and now you are a proper player.
You see, time is flying, eh?
Hiya, Jürgen.
Have you ever had a pan of Scouse, and if so, do you like it?
Scouse? You mean the... Yeah, I had it.
Great, love it. You are right.
So, in the beginning I was asked about English food, was not that happy,
but Scouse is outstanding.
But maybe it's not English food, it's Liverpool food, I think.
So maybe that's why I like it.
Hi. You OK?
Hi!
Do you ever get mad in the dressing room when the game hasn't gone to plan?
Possibly, but usually I try, if we lost the game,
it makes sense that you go home and maybe a sleep a night
before you then properly talk about it.
You will realise that when you get older, in a lot of situations in your life
it really makes sense that, if you feel anger, you just step aside or go home
and sleep a night or think a little bit, and THEN you talk about it.
Because then the emotions are out and you can speak about the things that really matter.
Guten tag, Herr Klopp!
Ho-ho-ho! Harrison, guten tag.
What preparation do you ask your players to do before a game?
We either way go to the hotel in the city where we play,
by plane, train or bus, or we go to our hotel in Liverpool,
and in the stadium the boys have their individual things.
Some of them wear their own headphones, hear their own music,
others hear the music which we have there for all the guys.
But it's very calm, you hear the music but apart from that there's not a lot of talk.
Then the boys get proper warmed up, with finishing and all these kinds of things.
After that we go in, the boys change again, out of their warm-up gear,
that's now full of sweat, so change it, into the proper playing gear.
And then it gets louder, then everybody is, like, active,
James Milner, Hendo, all the guys are then really talking:
"Come on, make yourself ready", these kinds of things.
"Be ready, we want to win the game."
After that we go out and try to win the game.
Who's the funniest player in the team?
Andy Robertson.
That's easy. Thank you very much, a good question, easy answer.
Andy Robertson.
What's your favourite Scouse saying?
'Sound.'
So in the beginning, I didn't understand it at all,
when somebody is like: "How are you?" "Sound."
"How is this?" "Sound."
I thought, 'sound'?
So, yes, 'sound' is my favourite saying in Scouse.
Which outfield player which you put in goal if both goalkeepers got injured in a match?
First and foremost, I hope that never will happen!
Probably then James Milner.
Actually Millie played in pretty much every position for me,
apart from goalkeeper, so, yeah.
And if it doesn't work, we at least had fun! Because Millie was in goal.
So, yeah, probably James.
It was a big pleasure to meet you all, I hope you have a good time.
I can promise you, when you come back to training, I will watch a session.
When you come back for training, I will come over and watch a session.
And then I will see how you are doing.
See you soon, my friends, bye-bye.
Bye, Jürgen.
- Bye! - Thank you!
Bye!