Today, Monday, June 1, just a year ago, Liverpool conquered their sixth Champions League (with which they ended a 7-year streak without winning a great title) and, a few minutes after lifting the trophy after defeating Tottenham 0-2 , Jürgen Klopp, coach of the 'reds', spoke by phone with Pep Guardiola, coach of Manchester City and his great rival. Klopp revealed the talk to the media at the press conference that followed.
“(Pep and I) We promised each other that we would kick our butts again next season. That we would go for everything and see what we could get, ”explained Klopp, as the Liverpool FC Echo portal recalls, about his conversation with Guardiola, with whom he has starred in so many great duels since the Catalan team led Bayern and the German, Borussia Dortmund. .
A couple of weeks before that June 1, on May 12 Guardiola had achieved with Manchester City the second consecutive Premier and Liverpool was only one point behind the ‘citizens’. The ds reds ’broke their club record at the point level, 97.
Today, just 12 months after that talk at the Wanda Metropolitano between Pep and Klopp, City are alive in the Champions League (they won 1-2 in the first leg of the round of 16 against Real Madrid), they won the League Cup and they will meet in the FA Cup quarters at Newcastle.
A year later, Klopp caresses the Premier and Guardiola is still alive in the fight for the Champions
Liverpool are eliminated from these competitions, but they are 6 points away from becoming England's champion 30 years later and they take 25 points from City (which has a pending match). The Premier, except for health problems, will resume on June 17 after being suspended since March 13 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The ‘reds’ lost the Community Shield to the ‘citizens’ on penalties, but they conquered the European Super Cup and the Club World Cup. Pep and Klopp have kept their promise.
(+) Klopp gave one more sample (in November 2019) of his great sense of humor when a journalist asked him about “Pepe” Guardiola … his reaction was brutal:
