Followers of Bundesliga facet Mainz unveiled banners slamming former coach Jurgen Klopp’s determination to affix Crimson Bull in Saturday’s 2-0 house loss in opposition to RB Leipzig. Utilizing a play on phrases with Klopp’s final identify, the house followers requested “Are you loopy?” and used a quote from their facet’s former boss: “I like individuals till the purpose they disappoint me.” A bigger banner, in massive pink letters, requested Klopp if he had “forgotten every little thing we gave you?”. A former participant on the membership, Klopp coached Mainz for seven years, taking the group to the highest flight for the primary time earlier than transferring to Borussia Dortmund and later Liverpool.
Klopp stepped down as Liverpool supervisor in the summertime having received a number of titles, together with the Premier League and Champions League.
In October, Klopp introduced he would be part of power drink firm Crimson Bull, which owns golf equipment in Leipzig, Salzburg and New York, as their world head of soccer from January 2025.
His determination to take up the job at Crimson Bull has aggravated supporters in Germany — significantly at ex-clubs Dortmund and Mainz — who’ve a long-standing dislike of RB Leipzig.
Some followers imagine Leipzig, based in 2009, usually are not in keeping with Germany’s 50+1 rule, which requires member management of golf equipment, whereas others have hit out on the multi-club possession mannequin utilized by Crimson Bull.
Leipzig’s win at Mainz despatched the membership, who’re but to lose within the league this season, prime of the desk — not less than till Bayern Munich’s match in opposition to Stuttgart at house afterward Saturday.
Leipzig coach Marco Rose, who performed underneath Klopp for a number of years at Mainz, dismissed the followers’ criticism as a minority opinion.
“There are 35,000 individuals within the stadium, a lot of whom have an opinion. I imagine that round 34,936 individuals love Kloppo for the truth that he formed an period right here, that we achieved one thing nice collectively,” mentioned Rose.
“He was right here in Mainz for a very long time.
“Everybody has their very own life someplace and the fitting to determine issues freely and for themselves. Not everybody has to like it.”
Rose added that: “(He) did not even discover (the banner), so it could’t have been that wild.”
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