Followers of Bundesliga aspect Mainz unveiled banners slamming former coach Jurgen Klopp’s choice to hitch Purple Bull in Saturday’s 2-0 residence loss in opposition to RB Leipzig. Utilizing a play on phrases with Klopp’s final identify, the house followers requested “Are you loopy?” and used a quote from their aspect’s former boss: “I like folks till the purpose they disappoint me.” A bigger banner, in massive purple letters, requested Klopp if he had “forgotten every part we gave you?”. A former participant on the membership, Klopp coached Mainz for seven years, taking the crew to the highest flight for the primary time earlier than transferring to Borussia Dortmund and later Liverpool.
Klopp stepped down as Liverpool supervisor in the summertime having gained a number of titles, together with the Premier League and Champions League.
In October, Klopp introduced he would be a part of vitality drink firm Purple Bull, which owns golf equipment in Leipzig, Salzburg and New York, as their world head of soccer from January 2025.
His choice to take up the job at Purple Bull has irritated supporters in Germany — significantly at ex-clubs Dortmund and Mainz — who’ve a long-standing dislike of RB Leipzig.
Some followers imagine Leipzig, based in 2009, are usually not per Germany’s 50+1 rule, which requires member management of golf equipment, whereas others have hit out on the multi-club possession mannequin utilized by Purple Bull.
Leipzig’s win at Mainz despatched the membership, who’re but to lose within the league this season, prime of the desk — no less than till Bayern Munich’s match in opposition to Stuttgart at residence in a while Saturday.
Leipzig coach Marco Rose, who performed below Klopp for a number of years at Mainz, dismissed the followers’ criticism as a minority opinion.
“There are 35,000 folks within the stadium, lots of whom have an opinion. I imagine that round 34,936 folks love Kloppo for the truth that he formed an period right here, that we achieved one thing nice collectively,” mentioned Rose.
“He was right here in Mainz for a very long time.
“Everybody has their very own life someplace and the precise to determine issues freely and for themselves. Not everybody has to find it irresistible.”
Rose added that: “(He) did not even discover (the banner), so it might’t have been that wild.”
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