Curtis Jones' Cry For Help: Jurgen Klopp Won't Stop Texting Me
Yesterday at 06:19 AM
The former Liverpool gaffer is still in touch with many of his former players.
Before you get all offended, let me just clarify that the headline was clearly a joke.
After the last match against Leicester City, one in which Curtis Jones made his 100th Premier League appearance and scored the winning goal, the Scouser in the team revealed that the former gaffer was actually the one who informed him of his 100th appearance over text.
"He was the one that said I'd played 100 games in the Premier League – I didn't even know. 'A hundred, onto the next 500. Congratulations, my friend,'" Jones said.
"It means everything. Look, he has been texting me loads since he's been gone. He texts me all the time. That's what he is like as well with all the lads. He keeps in touch.
"He is the man who made me from a kid to a man. There was always talk around me, 'Is he good enough? He's always injured and he needs a loan.' Things like that. There's a reason why I'm still here now, and that's because of him and the belief that he had in me.
"I'm grateful for him and his staff, and it puts a smile on my face when I see a text off him there...He's a great man, so I'm happy that he's still around from afar."
Phenomenal. No notes. Just Jurgen being Jurgen.
You can tell that there's still a great deal of genuine affection for Kloppo from his former players. But equally, it sounds like he's just there for moral support, and not in a way that would undermine the new regime, and judging by the results so far, quite the opposite.
