LIVERPOOL MANAGER Jurgen Klopp insisted he was “not alone” despite being without his assistant Zeljko Buvac.
The German’s long-time assistant Buvac will play no further part with the Premier League outfit this season due to “personal reasons”.
Amid reports the duo have fallen out, Buvac has also been linked with a potential switch to Arsenal, to replace outgoing manager Arsene Wenger.
But Klopp played down any concerns the Bosnian’s exit had added to his workload at Anfield.
“Is there more responsibility or stress? No, absolutely not,” he told UK newspapers.
“I am not on my own, I have still a lot of people around me, Peter Krawietz and Andreas Kornmayer’s team.
“So I am not alone. Nobody needs to worry about that.”
Liverpool are on the verge of sealing a top-four finish in the Premier League, likely needing only a point on the final day against Brighton and Hove Albion.
They are then set to leave England for warmer weather ahead of the Champions League final against Real Madrid on 26 May.
“The players will not be totally relaxed really, there will be hopefully moments when the boys can relax which is what they deserve and what they need. But we will do training too,” Klopp said.
“It’s not a camp. It’s not like we will go there and train twice a day or three times a day. It’s more to recharge the batteries. Then when we come home we have another week to prepare for the game.
“We will prepare for the game there as well. We have time together and stuff like that. We can maybe analyse stuff earlier while we are there, and there are a lot of things we can do then to get used to the situation of playing the final in Kiev.”
Great performance alright. What a turn around from keats. Great to see him playing with a smile again. Onwards and upwards for munster.
Apparently the birth of his kid changed how he views rugby. He’s in a completely different head space compared to two years ago and it shows on the pitch. Delighted for the guy.
@borgig: could be not being booed by his own fans too
Great to see him come on so strong. Our great leader Joe always kept faith in him when others didn’t. He’s going to get a fair bit of 6 nations rugby and maybe a World Cup too.
In fairness to Keatley, he showed some cojones to come back from the early set backs, even though he’s right about the pass from Murray! Kick to touch seemed to bring the confidence back after that. Don’t think he was as good as everyone seems to think he was but the first choice at 10 in Munster for sure!
Good to see him with a smile on his face on the pitch too!
Good man Keatley you Legend!!!
I’m delighted for Keatley. I think he deserves the praise for his recent good form & hope he keeps it up. If he can keep improving maybe the naysayers will fall away. Hopefully he has another gear. Good luck to him.