FORMER Liverpool star James Milner has revealed details of the club’s brutal system to decide on fines and punishments for players.
Using inflatable dice and holding a court case with his squad, manager Jurgen Klopp has put in place some bizarre methods to keep his squad in check.
Milner, who left the club in the summer to join Brighton, opened up about the dressing room antics during his eight-year spell at Anfield.
The midfielder, 37, joined Liverpool in the summer of 2015 from Manchester City before Klopp took over as manager in October of the same year.
The German manager implemented a strict system on Merseyside that saw his players decide on the consequences for any misconduct.
The punishments players were prosecuted for ranged from being late to wearing “flip flops in the gym” according to Milner.
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The former England international said on the High Performance podcast: “We had the fines. We had a court case, we had a big inflatable dice, you had to roll it and things like that.
“If someone was late but they had a reason or flip flops in the gym and there was a reason.
“We randomly drew who was on the jury that day and I would basically be running the court and arguing why someone should be fined.
“And someone would argue the case if they shouldn’t be fined.”
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Depending on the outcome of the inflatable dice, players could either avoid their fine, increase it, or attempt to get rid of it.
Milner also revealed there were bizarre games that would enable a player to try and get out of a fine.
He said: “So the dice was you can either pay the fine or you had different things. One would be a double payment. One would get off with it. One would be a forfeit.
“Bobby Firmino was on a Swiss ball trying to balance to throw a tennis ball into a foam roller and he had three attempts and if he got it he didn’t have to pay.”
Klopp’s strange dressing room tactics appear to have worked, having led his team to a league title, an FA Cup, a Champions League, a Club World Cup and an EFL Cup.
And Milner praised the manager’s approach and credited the boss for uniting the players.
He added: “It was a good togetherness thing and I think that these little things create that dressing room.”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
