Liverpool supervisor Jurgen Klopp admits after the “most intense week of my life” he might delegate workforce assembly duties to captain Virgil van Dijk.
The 56-year-old is within the last official two days of his tenure on the membership after saying in January his resolution to depart his contract early after eight-and-a-half years.
He has spent a lot of the final week saying his goodbyes to employees and associates – the gamers gave him their send-off at a barbecue on Thursday – and readily accepts he is probably not in the fitting mind set to ship the ultimate preparations for Sunday’s go to of Wolves, which would be the most emotional of farewells at Anfield.
“It is a large problem now to take a seat right here and faux…I’ve no clue how the workforce assembly will likely be,” he mentioned.
“The documentary guys (behind-the-scenes cameras have been following Klopp and the workforce for a number of months) requested me if they will have the final workforce assembly, which no one ever had.
“I mentioned no as a result of I don’t know how that will likely be. Perhaps Virg is doing it as a result of any individual has to do it who is actually on hearth.
“Can I be on hearth? Most likely sure, I feel so, however I don’t know within the second. However it is going to be actually unusual.”
Anfield will likely be a sea of emotion on Sunday as followers say goodbye to their beloved supervisor however Klopp desires, maybe unrealistically, for the main target to be on the soccer.
The time to experience his achievements will come on the last whistle when Klopp will likely be honoured by gamers and employees and is anticipated to provide his last handle to Anfield.
“I need us to play prime soccer. Folks come for that however you want an environment for that,” he added.
“Throughout the recreation it might be cool if that will be not a goodbye environment however a extremely good soccer environment, that will be cool.
“That is the final recreation of the season and after that could be a vacation – that’s what I had for the final 24 years – so it’s enterprise as traditional…understanding that all the pieces across the recreation and in the course of the recreation will likely be utterly completely different.
“We’ve to arrange nearly as good and as regular as attainable. I feel I used to be by no means the half to disturb the sport however most likely on this second I’m the one and I’m actually sorry for that, I might love to not be that.
“However standing there and pretending that it’s a totally regular recreation, no one would imagine me if I say that.
“It’s a problem for various causes this time and I hope we will simply all collectively put a extremely good efficiency on the pitch – I feel we’d all deserve that.
“It’s a lot simpler to rejoice afterwards when you noticed a superb recreation earlier than. I can not assure that now however I’ll attempt as arduous as I can.”
On what he’ll really feel as he leaves Anfield for the final time Klopp mentioned: “Saying goodbye I don’t suppose is ever good however saying goodbye with out feeling unhappy or feeling damage, that will imply that the time you spent collectively was not proper and never nice.
“And we had a good time, so it was all the time clear it is going to be robust and I do know it is going to be robust.”
