Watch Liverpool boss Klopp jokingly run away from Man City chief Guardiola when they meet at Uefa elite managers bash
JURGEN KLOPP left reporters in stitches after he ran away from Pep Guardiola at a Uefa coaches summit in Switzerland.
The pair both attended the Elite Club Coaches Forum the day after Klopp’s Liverpool beat Guardiola’s Manchester City 3-1 in a game full of major talking points.
Guardiola was fuming with referee Michael Oliver after the match where he could be seen sarcastically shouting “Thank you so much, thank you so much” to him.
Speaking after the game, he said: “Ask the referees, don’t ask me. Ask Mike Riley and the guys in VAR.
“I would like to talk about our performance, it was so good. It was one of the best performances we have played.”
But Klopp stated that the duo have no problem with each other in a hilarious interview that saw him legging it away from the ex-Barcelona gaffer.
The German was asked by a reporter, “Did you speak with Pep?”, but didn’t understand his question after the journalist mispronounced the Spaniard’s first name.
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Klopp replied by saying: “Pepe? Who is Pepe?”
After the confusion was cleared, he laughed and said: “Of course we spoke, why shouldn’t we speak?”
At that precise moment he spotted the 48-year-old coming round the corner and whispered: “Pep Guardiola is coming!”
He then jokingly ran off camera much to the amusement of the reporters around him.
Both Klopp and Guardiola were in agreement at the summit in Nyon where they stated that VAR is not working.
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Klopp said: “With VAR, handball, offside, it is clear there is a process where we have to keep on improving. There were good ideas from Uefa how we can sort things from the referees, so everybody is in on it.
“There is still space for mistakes. These things are done by human beings and none of us is perfect. But it is about improving it. Nobody is asking for perfection, you just want to have the right decisions.”
When Guardiola was asked whether VAR could be made right, he simply commented: “I don’t know.”