Jurgen Klopp’s old team-mate on what the Reds boss was like as a player, his development as a coach, and what happened with Timo Werner deal

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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4.4 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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We’ve got a very special podcast to round off the week’s listening on the Blood Red channel as Matt Addison picks up the phone to Jurgen Klopp’s former team-mate, and now German football journalist, Guido Schäfer. The pair played together for six years at FSV Mainz 05 in the early 90s and Guido provides a lovely and fascinating insight into what the man affectionately known in his homeland as ‘Kloppo’ was like as a player and as a person back then. Proud Guido then talks about Klopp’s development as a manager, from Mainz, to Borussia Dortmund and now to Liverpool, who he has led to European, World and, soon enough, Premier League glory. Guido now covers RB Leipzig for the Leipziger Volkszeitung in Germany and is perfectly placed to give us the inside track on the details behind Timo Werner’s deal to join Chelsea, when for so long it looked as if the striker was set to sign for the Reds. And Guido also gives us the lowdown on Leipzig boss Julian Nagelsmann, who is being tipped to succeed Klopp when the great man eventually leaves Anfield. Enjoy.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/ Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriber Visit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.
0:09.0	Hello and welcome to the latest podcast on the Blood Red channel. I'm Matt Addison and for this
0:14.4	episode I picked up the phone to speak to Gido Schaefer. Gido is currently the
0:18.7	R. Blypsy correspondent for Regional Paper Leipsega Fault Sait, the Paul Gorsd of the Saxony region of East Germany, if you will.
0:25.8	He was also a teammate of Jörgen Klop during his time at Mainz in the late 1990s.
0:31.0	Myself and Gido spoke about clop the player, stories from the dressing
0:35.2	room at the time and the Germans journey at Liverpool so far, and then about Leipzig,
0:39.6	Timo Werner, Julian Nagelsman and plenty more. Gido has so many tales to tell he makes for a fantastic guest.
0:46.5	Enjoy. The Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo.
0:50.1	So yeah I think Gido we'll start obviously with with Yerkan Clop as you say you played with him at mines
0:59.1	Presumably you you know him quite well then yes yes I know him quite well then? Yes yes I know him very well he was a very very lovely guy as a as a teammate also and we played
1:10.9	from 1990 until 1996 together in the second division and
1:16.7	Jung was a very big mentality in his in his match in his game I think from the talent perhaps fourth division from the
1:27.2	mentality first division and one and four it's second division and I is that he can do his mentally he can
1:41.1	I don't know the the English word the gift to his to his team all clubs teams
1:48.8	are all our club players they they have the mentality from Yonge Club and I think we saw it in mines also in
1:57.3	Dortmund and now in Liverpool they win their matches also with quality but I think first of all with a big big
2:05.2	mentality yes it's something he talks about a lot the mentality giants and that sort
2:10.9	yes yes and I mean he said before himself that he wasn't the best player in the world.
2:15.8	But I mean he must have been you know a pretty good footballer to play even in the second division in
2:21.9	Germany that's still a very high level isn't it?
2:24.7	I think he had 342 matches caps in the second division and if you play 300 matches then you it's not possibly
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