Fans of Bundesliga facet Mainz unveiled banners slamming former coach Jurgen Klopp’s resolution to affix Red Bull in Saturday’s 2-0 house loss towards RB Leipzig. Using a play on phrases with Klopp’s final identify, the house followers requested “Are you loopy?” and used a quote from their facet’s former boss: “I like folks till the purpose they disappoint me.” A bigger banner, in huge pink letters, requested Klopp if he had “forgotten all the pieces we gave you?”. A former participant on the membership, Klopp coached Mainz for seven years, taking the staff to the highest flight for the primary time earlier than transferring to Borussia Dortmund and later Liverpool.
Klopp stepped down as Liverpool supervisor in the summertime having gained a number of titles, together with the Premier League and Champions League.
In October, Klopp introduced he would be part of power drink firm Red Bull, which owns golf equipment in Leipzig, Salzburg and New York, as their international head of soccer from January 2025.
His resolution to take up the job at Red Bull has irritated supporters in Germany — significantly at ex-clubs Dortmund and Mainz — who’ve a long-standing dislike of RB Leipzig.
Some followers consider Leipzig, based in 2009, should not according to Germany’s 50+1 rule, which requires member management of golf equipment, whereas others have hit out on the multi-club possession mannequin utilized by Red Bull.
Leipzig’s win at Mainz despatched the membership, who’re but to lose within the league this season, prime of the desk — at the least till Bayern Munich’s match towards Stuttgart at house in a while Saturday.
Leipzig coach Marco Rose, who performed below Klopp for a number of years at Mainz, dismissed the followers’ criticism as a minority opinion.
“There are 35,000 folks within the stadium, a lot of whom have an opinion. I consider that round 34,936 folks love Kloppo for the truth that he formed an period right here, that we achieved one thing nice collectively,” mentioned Rose.
“He was right here in Mainz for a very long time.
“Everyone has their very own life someplace and the precise to resolve issues freely and for themselves. Not everybody has to adore it.”
Rose added that: “(He) did not even discover (the banner), so it could possibly’t have been that wild.”
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