Jurgen Klopp bans Liverpool WAGs from training ground

Jurgen Klopp is Liverpool’s newly appointed manager.

Liverpool’s newly appointed manager Jurgen Klopp has imposed a harsh new rule and has told his players’ wives and girlfriends to keep away from the training ground, as per the reports on Mirror. Klopp has branded Melwood “the headquarters of football”, telling players he expects them to be 100 percent committed to the club’s cause.

The former Borussia Dortmund boss has wasted no time in displaying his steely side by implementing changes behind the scenes and is no longer playing Mr. Nice guy at Anfield. At his previous club, no players’ wives and girlfriends were seen at the training ground and that practise has now been introduced at Melwood to banish any potential distractions.

Klopp has made his expectations known to everyone at the club and he wants ‘total commitment to the Liverpool cause’, urging them to get in shape to run and fight more than the opposition team. It doesn’t stop stop here, as the German coach has also warned there will be a dramatic cut back on the amount of time off they were allowed to take under the previous regime.

The 48-year-old had scheduled three sessions on the first day all players were available after the international break. He believes the change in mentality is the easiest thing to change in the short term and this could be the key to their success.

“I have to give the boys things that they are able to do.” he said.

“Of course, I want to see a change in mentality; [to go] from the first second until the last second. Not because it was bad before but because that is the most easy thing to change.”

“We have to go to London, go out of the stadium, go out of the dressing room [and show] what we can do. That’s what we are waiting for the whole week. That’s what we dream of. All the tactical things, that’s very important because we do not have to work so much on the physical side.”

“My ideas are not better than Brendan’s. They are different, of course, and so we need time. That’s a big challenge: to find a way [to make] the first step and that you can see that it is better. They have to get better in the games.”

When Klopp was in charge at Westfalenstadion, he would oversee double training sessions on certain days each week. This new emphasis is again clear as he looks for his methods to take hold.