As Jürgen Klopp's assistant coach, Zeljko Buvac was able to celebrate some successes - before separating from his companion in 2018.
Was there a fight?
At Mainz 05 *, Borussia Dortmund * and Liverpool FC,
Zeljko Buvac was
Jürgen Klopp's
assistant coach
.
In 2018, the long-standing,
successful collaboration
ended abruptly.
The reasons are not clear.
Now the Bosnian has made a detailed statement in an interview.
It is also about companion "Kloppo".
Moscow -
Jürgen Klopp
and his "shadow man"
Zeljko Buvac have
long been regarded as a model coaching team: At the side of head coach "Kloppo", the Bosnian pursued his calling as a silent assistant without the urge for the limelight and experienced its rise from a limited football player to one World-class trainer with.
In the spring of 2018, however, what happens to many
long-term relationships
- whether private or business - occurs: There is a break and they go their separate ways.
Buvac, who is currently working as a
sports director at Dynamo Moscow
, made a detailed
statement
in a Russian interview - among other things, on
cutting the cord from
his former confidante
Jürgen Klopp
.
This gives the impression that the former confidants are now going completely separate ways.
Jürgen Klopp and Liverpool FC: Zeljko Buvac was "happy but not congratulated"
In the YouTube format “Nobel”, the 59-year-old was asked whether he
had congratulated
Liverpool FC
on winning the championship in the Premier League *?
Buvac denies this - and thus
Jürgen Klopp
did not send any congratulations either.
"I was happy for the players, for the fans, but I didn't congratulate them," he told his interlocutor, as
Sport Bild
explains.
The
companion also commented
on the
relationship with Jürgen Klopp
.
Buvac kept a low profile about the reasons for his departure from Liverpool *.
However, he let out a statement with regard to the division of labor: "I did the job of the coach, except that I did not speak in public and give interviews," he lets know.
The
public attention
never meant anything to him, he says in the conversation.
Jürgen Klopp: Ex-Assi Zeljko Buvac now under contract with the Russian top club
Incidentally, the Dutchman
Pepijn Lijnders is
said to have played
a role in the alienation between Klopp and Buvac
, a passage from Jürgen Klopp's biography suggests.
It says: "Buvac gave the impression that he would not have been happy with the increasing influence of the fourth assistant coach." The man from the coaching staff of
Liverpool
* recently spoke about the commitment of
Thiago Alcantara
from
Bayern
:
Wouldn't Zeljko Buvac himself be
in the spotlight
as a
professional
trainer
?
“Of course I would think about it if FC Barcelona called.
Otherwise not, ”says Jürgen Klopp's former assistant.
Buvac denies that his job in the Russian league is only a stopgap solution: "If you knew what offers I had, you wouldn't think that I'm only here to be busy," he replied when asked.
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