Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp insists he's always appreciated the FA Cup.
Liverpool meet Nottingham Forest in the quarterfinals on Sunday.
Klopp said, "It's actually the first time someone questioned my attitude, usually they question my technical abilities and stuff like this, but never question my attitude. I didn't change, not at all. If you look at my German history, most of the finals I lost, it's a big number, I lost in the German cup final. So, obviously, when you have the players available for both competitions in this case, or three competitions then it's OK, then you can do it. If not, you have to make changes. Then people think: why is he doing that?
"Because we come back to the point with all my knowledge, I ask the players for an awful lot until a specific point, then take them out, because even if they want [to play], they should not be in the situation that they have to deliver again. That's it. That's why we had changes.
"I've said before, it's not always that we've been unlucky, but we had not the best draw as well. It's not that we thought, 'Oh, let's go to Chelsea away, [and] play [Manchester] United away' or stuff like this. It's not exactly what you wanted, or Chelsea at home in a situation where we didn't have the players, and stuff like this. So, no, [my] attitude didn't change. I always wanted to go to Wembley, it just didn't happen."
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