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– Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said rivals Manchester United are hiring an “outstanding” coach in Ralf Rangnick.
– United are in advanced talks to appoint Rangnick as the club’s interim manager until the end of the season.
– Regarded as the “godfather of gegenpressing”, Rangnick inspired a generation of German coaches, including Klopp and Chelsea counterpart Thomas Tuchel.
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– Rangnick emerged as the outstanding candidate during interviews for the United role following the sacking of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer last week.
– “Unfortunately a good coach is coming to England and Manchester United,” Klopp told a news conference on Friday.
– “That’s how it is. He’s a really experienced manager who built two clubs from nowhere with Hoffenheim and RB Leipzig. He’s done a lot of different jobs in football but his first concern is being a coach and that’s his best skill.
– “United will be organised on the pitch and that’s not good news for other teams [in the Premier League]. Ralf will quickly realise that he has no time to train because United play all the time, but a really good man and outstanding coach will come to England, if it happens.”
– Liverpool face Southampton in the Premier League on Saturday and are eight points clear of United in the table.
– A first league meeting between Klopp and Rangnick could come when Liverpool host United in March.
– “We faced each other when I was a very young coach when he was at Hannover and he called me the ‘young manager at Mainz’,” Klopp said.
– “They got promoted [to the Bundesliga] and we didn’t, so he owes me something maybe. He’s very well regarded in Germany and rightly so.”
