Klopp 'used his age' to calm down De Zerbi

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says his Brighton counterpart Roberto De Zerbi was at 'a point of not coming back'

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00:00 I have to say I cannot respect more, could not respect more what he is doing.

00:06 Honestly, I'm a real supporter of it, I'm a football lover,

00:10 and if somebody comes here and says the impact he has on football

00:13 should not be underestimated.

00:16 In the moment when he got a bit outraged, I used my age and tried to calm him down.

00:23 So you had sympathy for him in that moment?

00:25 I had no clue what they were talking about,

00:27 I just thought if I'm in a moment like this,

00:30 there's a moment where the point of never coming back appears,

00:34 and I think he was close to that, and then I tried to calm him down.

00:40 That was, yeah.