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Jurgen Klopp has reacted to Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard's return to the Premier League via asserting that he will now "watch Aston Villa video games a bit closer".
Gerrard opted to depart Rangers after three-and-a-half years on the helm to absorb the top activity at Aston Villa closing week.
The forty one-yr-vintage, who guided the Gers to their first league identify in a decade, has a difficult task on his arms at Villa Park as they sit down sixteenth inside the Premier League after eleven video games, however Klopp believes he's a "wonderful" healthy for the position.
Klopp was appointed Liverpool supervisor shortly after Gerrard's departure as a participant in 2015, but the former midfielder labored with the German intently while he started incomes his coaching stripes with the membership's academy the subsequent yr.
The men still maintain in touch to this day, and Klopp is relishing the chance in their reunion at the touchline when the Reds host Villa on December 11.
He has instructed Liverpool's reliable internet site of Gerrard's arrival within the West Midlands: “Really glad for him, to be honest.
"I know he loved the task at Rangers, but it’s how it is. When you have got the opportunity to paintings inside the Premier League, then in all likelihood each educate within the international might bear in mind it.
“With a membership the dimensions of Aston Villa, I can believe he is simply humming approximately it. It’s a super opportunity for him, it’s high-quality for the membership.
“In a few weeks we are able to face each other. I texted him manifestly and we had some messages from side to side. It’s properly, I’m in reality looking ahead to it.
“From now on I will watch Aston Villa games a chunk nearer, however aside from that when we meet them glaringly then it’s special. But it’s appropriate. That’s for him the identical, it need to be the same. For those ninety five minutes all sentiments ought to be placed aside, that’s how it is.
