Liverpool boss Klopp: We feel the love of the Singapore people

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30 Jul 2023 • 9:59 AM MYT
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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is happy to be back in Singapore.

The Reds are preparing to meet Leicester City for their latest preseason friendly.

Klopp said: "It's really top. You only really know properly about the size of the club when you come to this part of the world. When you feel the love of the people here, it's absolutely exceptional, it is exceptional. That's why we really love coming here. The big difference between this year and last year is that we had our training camp already in Germany, which is super-important.

"Last year we couldn't plan it differently because we didn't know that we will play that long [in] the season before and all these kind of things. So we started pretty much in Asia and, for the people here it's the same importance, but for us it was the worst possible moment, let me say it like that, because you spoke about the humidity and that's obviously really tricky for us. We play in England and the weather couldn't be more different, to be honest, so that's really tough and we still have to go through all the paces. We couldn't do that here, had to do it later, had then already brought the injuries back home and stuff like this. It was not cool.

"Anyway, we came back because we enjoy it here. That's the truth as well. We have two top-class games. Tonight obviously [we have] a training session, which is an important session for us. We will do a completely normal tactical session tonight in front of, I don't know, 20,000 people around about, so that will be strange.

"I hope the people will not be constantly screaming because I need to find a microphone or something else because I have to talk to the players during the session. But it's great and it's exactly what you want when you play for a club like Liverpool. You travel and show your face wherever our supporters are. We cannot do that constantly but as often as we can we have to do it and that's why we are in Asia. Great."