Jurgen Klopp at Christmas

To celebrate Christmas on Sky Sports, we sent Jamie Redknapp to interview Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp at the end of a big year at Anfield.

The German was in great form, discussing the highs and lows of his Anfield tenure so far, the challenges of being a manager in the Premier League and his hopes of beating Chelsea to the Premier League title.

He also spoke about the busy Christmas schedule and what he and the players will be doing on Christmas Day.

Read on to read what happened when Redknapp met Klopp…

Klopp on… his first year at Liverpool

“I was always really interested in the Premier League and being involved now is great. It’s intense, but great. Being at Liverpool shows I’m a really lucky guy.

“For the third time it’s an unbelievably good decision, the perfect club for me. Obviously we don’t fit too badly to the club too and that’s really good. We like working together here, we have a really good atmosphere at Melwood. The club is already a great club, but there is still space to develop.

“Everything is better than we could have imagined and living on Merseyside, Formby close to the sea, is much better than I could have imagined before. When you think about England from Germany you think it rains 364-and-a-half days a year! It’s not like this, so all good.”

Klopp on… his highlight of 2016

“Obviously the last half-an-hour against Dortmund (4-3 win at Anfield in the Europa League quarter-final). It’s not only my highlight of 2016; I’ve said it a few times but it was the best half-an-hour I ever had in football.

 “I believe in atmosphere and this was the perfect proof of what atmosphere can create. Without noise and without a crowd there was no chance in this game, even though we were good. We were 2-0 down and 3-1 down, but we were good.

“What happened was a really magic night.”

Klopp on… his low point of 2016

“The [Europa League] final in Basel of course. What can I say? It’s like this in big finals. We will go to other finals, I’m sure, with this team and I know everyone will remind me then that I lost my last five or six finals.

“When I think about the Sevilla final we were good in the first half. We deserved in the first half to win the game. We scored a second goal which was disallowed and we had one or two penalty situations. With a little bit of luck we have a penalty. If we were 2-0 or 3-0 up then Sevilla has no chance because it was an intense season for both teams.

“But in the second half after one …

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