BRITAIN SHOULD VOTE again on whether or not to leave the European Union Liverpool’s German manager Jurgen Klopp told The Guardian on Monday.
The 50-year-old — whose side face AS Roma at Anfield on Tuesday in their Champions League semi-final first leg clash — says the British people were sold short in the original campaign in 2016 in terms of the information they were fed.
Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016 but it was a close run thing — 51.9%-48.1%.
“When Mr (David) Cameron (the then Prime Minister) had the idea (of a referendum) you thought: ‘This is not something people should decide in a moment.’” said Klopp.
“The choice was either you stay in Europe, which is not perfect, or you go out into something nobody has any idea how it will work.
“So you give people the chance to make this big decision. And then it’s a 51-49 vote and you’re thinking: ‘Wow, 49% are not happy with the decision that’s going to change the country.’
“Let’s sit together again. Let’s think about it again and let’s vote again with the right information -– not with the information you’ve got around the Brexit campaign.
“They were obviously not right, not all of them. It makes no sense at all.”
Klopp said history should teach people harsh lessons from the past when there has been division.
History has always shown that when we stay together we can sort out problems,” he said.
“When we split then we start fighting. There was not one time in history where division creates success. So, for me, Brexit still makes no sense.”
However, the charismatic German is adamant despite being touted by some for a future political career in Germany he will not be seeking to follow in the footsteps of present German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“Angela Merkel has two weeks off a year,” said Klopp, who credits Merkel as ‘doing an unbelievable job’.
“That’s less holiday than I have which means that’s absolutely not my target.”
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Well done Juergen… one of the very few English Football managers who can speak properly and has intelligence…
@Dead Ball Browne: really,what research have you done to say he’s one of the very few managers with intelligence?
@John Connolly: So you don’t think he is eloquent and informed ?
@John Clare: I didn’t say that,just wondering has he researched every manager in the league to come to a conclusion that klopp is one of the very few managers that is intelligent
@Dead Ball Browne: actually he is a German football manager of an English club. Maybe he’s afraid that if he stays in England after Brexit he might lose his lucrative contract with Opel.
@John Clare: he’s more thoughtful and articulate than any of the English lot – Pards and Big Sam etc. And in his second language. It wouldn’t surprise me if both of those lads voted to leave..
Jurgen always was known for his political prowess
Klopp says there should only be another Brexit vote if West Brom agree to water their pitch at half time.
Wrong Klopp democratic decision and it’s final, unlike us Irish they won’t vote again and how that ever happened is still beyond me
@Brocky Jennings: you mean when we ended up with better terms second time around.
@Brocky Jennings: Although it’s a democratic decision I do feel that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should be given the choice to stay considering they all voted to stay. It seems unfair that one nation part of the UK decides to leave that they must all leave.
@Conor Walsh: Wales actually voted to leave, but agree on the other two parts. At the very least they should also be afforded the same right to vote on leaving the UK.
I was thinking someone with his insight would be someone to listen to…then he said Mother Merkel is doing an “unbelievable job” and I realised he really doesn’t know what he is talking about…Stick to the FuBball, Jurgen
@Jimmy Ryan Rises: He knows a lot more than you do.
He has a diploma in sports science. I wonder do many premier league managers have that kind of qualifications
@John Appleseed: a diploma….. Have you got you’re to guess in your cheek saying that?
@John Appleseed: would you ever behave, you can get those in Aldi
@Teddyzigzagbigbag: wha?
@John Appleseed: did he learn in sports science that if its windy or pitch not watered you cant play ball properly
Correct,Jurg the Ham Burger,look at Ireland today,good Friday agreement has healed the Ireland (North, South,UK hostile climate) crisis,because they got talking to each other,but now its division time again,so next enter the UK Military generals,to start it up again