LONDON: Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp revealed he apologized to Alex Ferguson after waking the former Manchester United boss in the early hours of the morning.
Ferguson sent a congratulatory message to Klopp when Liverpool ended their 30-year wait to be crowned Premier League champions following Manchester City’s defeat at Chelsea in June.
When Klopp’s celebrations with his players at a Liverpool hotel had finally petered out, it was approaching 3:30 a.m. but the German was still keen to reply to Ferguson’s message.
He did not anticipate the 78-year-old Scot would still have his phone on by his bedside when he sent his response, with Ferguson later revealing Klopp had accidentally woken him up.
“The problem was that I came back late in my room that night and I couldn’t sleep immediately so I went through the messages I got and one of them was from Alex Ferguson,” Klopp said.
“I just replied in a very polite way I think. It was about 3:30 a.m.— 4 a.m. and I didn’t expect him to have his phone next to his bed. I didn’t want to wake him up. If that happened then sorry Alex!
“But since then we have not been in contact. He is still the former Man United manager and I don’t think he wants to talk to me too much about the success of Liverpool.
“He respects it but it’s not his favorite thing to watch on television!”