LIVERPOOL manager Jurgen Klopp threatened to drop one of his Borussia Dortmund goalkeepers to the second team after he went down with a bloody nose during training.
That is according to Klopp’s former physio Thomas Zetzmann, who was part of his medical team during his successful seven-year spell at Dortmund.
Zetzmann remembered what a perfectionist the German tactician was at the Signal Iduna Park with his ruthless and no-nonsense style on the training pitch.
So much so, that during a training camp in Marbella the Liverpool boss had a furious altercation with his third-choice goalkeeper Zlatan Alomerovic.
Alomerovic clashed with a team-mate so hard his nose started running with blood.
But Klopp ordered him to get back up to his feet or he would send him back to the reserves.
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The physio tried to get in and treat the Serbian, who currently plays for Jagiellonia Bialystok, and the 55-year-old directed his fury at him as he hated interruptions during training.
Zetzmann told GOAL: “Once in training camp in Marbella, everyone was not really awake yet and the training match did not go very well.
“The third goalkeeper, Zlatan Alomerovic, collided with a player. I was standing a good distance away with the ice box, but immediately saw blood running from his nose.
“You have to know that with Jurgen, you should only run onto the field when it’s really critical.
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“He didn’t want to interrupt the game unnecessarily. That was something like an educational measure for the players, he always demanded a healthy toughness.
“As a physio, you sometimes got a good run-in if you ran into something he thought was unnecessary. Zlatan was bleeding a lot.
“Jurgen, however, got upset about the interruption and just shouted: ‘Get up!’ And Zlatan shouted back: ‘What do you mean, get up? Don’t you see?’
“No one has ever dared to do that in all these years. He said coldly: ‘What did you just say? You get up right now and go into your goal. Or do you want to go back to the second team?’
“I tried to calm him down, but Jurgen was probably fired up due to the lax play and then also attacked me.
“Afterwards he apologised as he often does and said that he had exaggerated and that he could have managed the situation quite differently.”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
