Jurgen Klopp has paid tribute to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain as he departs Liverpool after six injury-plagued years at Anfield
his inability to put a real run of form together due to persistent injury problems means Oxlade-Chamberlain's time as a Liverpool player has slightly underwhelmed.
Jürgen Klopp
“Ox is a super guy, an absolutely super guy,
"Now with Ox it’s a bigger shame, how it sometimes is with players – he had here super times and now in the end I’m pretty sure he is not 100 per cent happy and I can understand that, definitely."
Klopp went on to recall what was arguably the defining turning point of Oxlade-Chamberlain's Liverpool career - his knee injury against Roma.
"But the one moment that comes in my mind, it describes a little bit the time here but as well how good he is, is the situation in the Roma semi-final, the home game when he got injured. In that moment I had no idea how to replace him, honestly – Ox was that good.
"It was everything: he came here, had played from time to time at wing-back at Arsenal, winger for sure, and he became a proper number eight here in the way we wanted to play – super-energetic, technically outstanding."
"It was always a real joy to work with him but again, one or two injuries too many caused some problems, obviously"
OX
I still want success, I’ve had a taste of it here, they’ve been the best years ever. So, if by any chance, I can have another sniff of achieving anything like that again then I’d bite your hand off.
"I think I need to go and play somewhere as consistently as possible. They say you’re coming into your peak at 29, so I want to go and test myself, play consistently somewhere."
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