Football | Jürgen Klopp’s decision raised fury – “Destroys himself”

Football genius Jurgen Klopp’s the decision to move to the management ladder of Red Bull’s football team has caused outrage in his home country of Germany.

Klopp, 57, will start in January as Red Bull’s head of global football operations.

In Germany, Klopp is especially remembered for Borussia Dortmund, the traditional club he coached passionately between 2008 and 2015. During that time, Klopp, who successfully faced the big and bad Bayern Munich, melted the hearts of the people of Dortmund. Under Klopp, the club won, for example, the Bundesliga in 2011 and -12.

Already earlier, he attracted attention by lifting Mainz to the Bundesliga.

Now In the Ruhr region, there is another sound in the clock. The Red Bull corporation, which owns, among other things, the Bundesliga club RB Leipzig, is a kind of arch devil among German football fans.

German fans are vehemently against big business or super-rich countries getting involved in football. The Germans fiercely defend, for example, that the fans always have the most decision-making power in the country’s clubs.

Red Bull has become a symbolic resistance to this ideology. That’s why the corporation, and RB Leipzig, are hated. Red Bull founded RB Leipzig in the lower leagues and raised it with money all the way to the Champions League.

Now Klopp gets his share of anger. Ruhr Nachrichten drew disappointed comments from Dortmund fans on social media.

“The monument destroys itself. This is a sad day for true football fans,” a Dortmund fan named Jochen Scholz wrote.

“The last spark of football romance has gone out”, claimed for his part Ingo von Niet.

André Schoenfeld was in pieces after his night shift.

“The morning then started with this kind of news. I just wanted to sleep in peace. Unfathomable decision. RB from all clubs! he commented.”

Ruhr Editor of Nachrichten Kevin Pinnow annoyed Klopp in his commentary.

According to Pinnow, Klopp is destroying his legacy at Dormund by joining the enemy camp.

“Klopp has been on the side of passion, tradition and pure football romance throughout his career. The soft drink group that owns six clubs does not represent any of them,” Pinnow wrote.

“Nobody thought this solution was possible. “

Pinnow also thought it was fake that Klopp allowed Dortmund to organize a tribute match for him at the beginning of September, even though the coaching wizard surely already knew at that time that he would be moving to the can giant’s service.

Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung was on the same lines. Newspaper editor Christian Woop title his column lustily:

“Jürgen Klopp represents everything that is wrong with football.”