Liverpool have confirmed their new goalkeeper coach is Fabian Otte, and he’s somebody Jurgen Klopp had beforehand been “” in.
With goalkeeping coach John Achterberg departing to hitch Steven Gerrard in Saudi Arabia, and his assistant Jack Robinson additionally leaving, the Reds wanted somebody to fill the void left.
The person Liverpool have turned to is 33-year-old Otte, a German who will be part of after the Copa America, the place he’s working with the USA nationwide crew.
Otte is a determine who has raised eyebrows already in his younger profession, and former supervisor Klopp took observe of his compatriot again in 2021.
Otte spent the 2020/21 season as a coach at Burnley earlier than leaving for Borussia Monchengladbach.
He instructed Sky Sports activities of how earlier than Liverpool’s 3-0 win at Turf Moor that season, “Jurgen began smiling at” him.
Otte continued: “Clearly, Jurgen Klopp is a giant identify, I’ve heard about him, examine him and watched him on tv for a few years. I simply waved again.
“After I received again to the altering room, the kitman mentioned, ‘Jurgen Klopp was simply asking about you. He mentioned he learn this piece about you and was ’.
“Afterwards, I spoke to him for fairly some time and he was such a cool individual. It was a really fascinating expertise.
“That is the Liverpool supervisor. He may have a thousand higher issues to do than examine me however he knew so many particulars.”
It’s a story that divulges how personable Klopp is, but it surely additionally tells us that Otte has been on the membership’s radar for some time.
In Slot’s first LFC TV interview, he mentioned: “In case you herald Fabian, who I didn’t know earlier than, you might have conversations, conferences with him – along with Richard (Hughes, sporting director) – to deliver the absolute best individual in we may discover.
“And I believe within the scenario of Fabian we managed to try this.
“He’s considered one of the fascinating goalkeeper coaches there may be in the intervening time and within the conferences we had I felt this as properly.”
With over 9 years of teaching expertise already beneath his belt, he’ll work with the skilled Brazil legend, Claudio Taffarel, to maintain Alisson on the prime degree and develop the Reds’ youthful goalkeepers.
