After the German Government’s official prohibition against Liverpool, Jurgen Klopp wanted to make a plea in his club’s defense this weekend.
Jurgen Klopp is disappointed with the German Government’s decision to forbid Liverpool from entering the country to face RB Leipzig in the Champions League. The global pandemic is still rampant around the world and England has been especially hit with the new strain. For this reason alone, Angela Merkel’s government made the unilateral decision to prevent the Reds from making the trip to Germany for February’s Champions League first-leg.
As a response, Jurgen Klopp wanted to send a message for the government to consider. He believes that the Reds are one of the clubs that follow the rules better than any other in the country. Although he only wanted to say it once, Jurgen did seem hopeful that Germany might make an exception to the rule. It’s unclear if the government will hear what Klopp had to say but at least he put the message out there.
Klopp pleas for an exception.
Through The Mirror, this is what Jurgen Klopp had to say to the German Government: “With all the stuff we are doing here within the club, the record we have with cases, the discipline, I think it would be reasonable to make an exception,” Klopp said on Friday. “We know there is another strain here, but we are not infected, we are really in a bubble here, and we could play at Leipzig without spreading the virus. Let’s just say that once.
“I don’t know exactly who decided it in the German government, but they said so far not possible. So maybe it is good to see for German people who are not [up on] the subject – we have the same problems like you have. It is like it always was, the rules are rules and we will accept them so I don’t know where we will play. But we don’t know if the German government are making a general decision, so we will see.”
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