Jurgen Klopp left red-faced as former club unfurl furious banner over Red Bull job

Former Liverpool and Borussia Dortmund caput manager Jurgen Klopp has been heavy criticised since taking a caller relation with Red Bull - and he's present been blasted by fans from different of his aged clubs, Mainz

Jurgen Klopp has been slammed by fans of 1 his erstwhile clubs, Mainz, aft taking up a caller relation with the Red Bull group.

The erstwhile Liverpool manager, 57, is presently unattached aft leaving the Reds earlier this year. He precocious confirmed, though, that helium would become Red Bull's caller caput of shot successful January, alternatively than returning to the dugout successful different managerial role.

Klopp's determination has sparked outrage successful immoderate quarters, peculiarly successful his autochthonal Germany, wherever helium enjoyed occurrence with Mainz and Borussia Dortmund earlier moving to the Premier League successful 2015.

And it was the fans astatine Mainz who sent a furious connection to the antheral they erstwhile idolised during their Bundesliga lucifer with RB Leipzig connected Saturday day successful the signifier of a fig of banners.

One said successful German: "Have you forgotten everything we person made you become?," portion others asked if Klopp was 'crazy'. Mainz went connected to suffer the lucifer 2-0.

Klopp has already faced a terrible backlash since his caller relation was made public, but helium had heavy implied since leaving Liverpool backmost successful May that helium was improbable to marque a instrumentality to full-time absorption with different club, though it's though helium has near the doorway unfastened for an planetary role.

Klopp confirmed that stance erstwhile reacting to his caller relation with Red Bull, who ain clubs each crossed Europe. "A fewer months ago, I said I don't spot myself connected the sidelines anymore, and that is inactive the case, but I inactive emotion football, I inactive emotion working, and Red Bull gives maine the cleanable level for that," Klopp wrote successful an Instagram post.

While Klopp's determination took plentifulness of radical by surprise, immoderate - peculiar those with affiliations to Red Bull - were not. One specified idiosyncratic was Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen, who teased that helium was alert negotiations were ongoing for awhile.

He said: "I knew already for rather a agelong clip that they were talking and it was adjacent to being signed. I deliberation it is great. Red Bull is investing a batch besides successful shot with the teams they person and determination is simply a batch of endowment that has travel done already.

"With idiosyncratic similar Jurgen successful complaint from the top, helium has a batch of experience, and helium has managed a batch of large clubs. It is large for the full organization."

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