‘Don’t know if I can say it’… Daniel Agger makes honest admission about Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool

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Daniel Agger has admitted that he’s ‘jealous’ of those playing under Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool.

Agger was a big player for the Reds across more than eight years at Anfield. However, the Dane’s trophy haul amounted to a single League Cup.

Clearly, Liverpool have kicked on in the years since Agger’s exit in 2014. And asked on the Aldo Meets Podcast this week for his thoughts on his old club under Klopp, the 39-year-old admitted to some feelings of regret.

“It’s been amazing to follow,” claimed the former No.5. “I don’t know if I can say it, but I am a little bit jealous because I wanted to be part of something like that! Especially at the beginning.

“I think Klopp would be the type of manager who I would love because there is no bull—-. What you see is what you get. I liked that, I prefer it that way. I always worked better when I got criticised rather than positives things. As when I got criticised I always wanted to show you you’re wrong. I like that.

“And the way they have been the last few years it’s good to follow and it brings a smile.”

Agger reveals Klopp dream

Had Agger stuck around at Liverpool, he could easily have found himself playing under Klopp.

The former Denmark international left the Reds in 2014, just a year-and-a-bit before Jurgen replaced Brendan Rodgers.

At the time, Agger had fallen down Rodgers’ pecking order and was no longer an automatic starter. As a result, by his own admission, the centre-back pushed to leave the club at the end of the 2013/14 season.

Of course, it would have required him hanging on for another season and a summer beyond that, but had Agger not decided to leave, maybe that would have been possible.

You could certainly see how he could then have been useful to Klopp. Just 30 at the time of the German’s arrival, Agger could still have been a big player for the new boss.

Vice-captain at the time of his exit, he would likely have been one of the big voices in the dressing room Jurgen relied on early doors.

Nevertheless, there’s no use crying over spilled milk now. Rodgers went and signed Dejan Lovren to replace Agger and the Croat went on to play his part in returning Liverpool to the summit of European football under Klopp.

So many Reds players of the early 2010’s will likely feel the same way as Agger. If only they’d have been at the club a little later. But that’s football.