'I remember': Barcelona player recalls specific moment where Jurgen Klopp 'changed his career'

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Liverpool are doing brilliantly under the stewardship of new head coach Arne Slot this season.

Slot has hit the ground running to take the Reds to the top of the Premier League and even the Champions League.

However, for all the good work that the Dutchman has done – and is yet to do – Liverpool fans are undoubtedly still missing Jurgen Klopp.

Klopp etched his name into Liverpool history across almost nine years at Anfield, winning just about everything possible and becoming at one with the city and its people.

Few managers at any club at any time have had the impact the German had during his time on Merseyside.

But even before he arrived at Liverpool in 2015, Klopp had already been having a similar effect on everyone he worked with. After playing under Jurgen for four years at Borussia Dortmund, Barcelona superstar Robert Lewandowski has opened up on how the former Reds boss ‘changed his career.’

Robert Lewandowski reveals key Jurgen Klopp chat

Klopp is set to take a job at Red Bull in the New Year and will perhaps become a public figure in football once again.

But over the past few months, there have not been tonnes of updates into what the 57-year-old is up to.

As a result, it’s always nice to hear him being spoken about. And with Lewandowski sitting down for a chat with Rio Ferdinand this week, Klopp inevitably came up.

“In my second year at Dortmund I felt that I didn’t know what he wanted and expected from him,” said the Polish striker, citing his lack of German speaking skills as a problem at the time.

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“I had to talk to him. Also, I lost my father when I was 16-years-old and in my life I didn’t have someone who I could always speak with about my problems. I was a very closed guy. But I knew when I went to speak with him maybe I’d feel better.

“We were speaking for like one and a half hours,” added Lewandowski. “Even if sometimes I didn’t understand him because he was speaking German! But after this conversation it wasn’t important what we were talking about, for me it was more important that he talked to me in the way that I was talking to my father. Maybe because of my private situation but at that time I needed this kind of conversation.

“In the end this kind of conversation opened something I had inside. Maybe because of the situation I had in my life, I don’t know, but at that time I remember exactly that this conversation changed my career.”

Jurgen Klopp ‘excited’ about new role

Klopp has come in for some criticism from fans in Germany over his decision to take a job with Red Bull. The franchise are not popular in the country having circumvented ownership rules to own RB Leipzig.

The group are set to do something similar in France by taking over second division side Paris FC alongside the powerful Arnault family.

And speaking at a press conference earlier this week, Benjamin Arnault claimed that he had been in touch with Klopp recently and that the former Reds manager was ‘excited’ about what lies ahead.

“I’ve had several talks with Klopp, he’s very excited about the project and the prospect of coming to work with the teams here,” Arnault said via RMC Sport.

“Red Bull also has absolutely revolutionary data tools that will help us with the scouting part.”