Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has admitted he has always followed Martin Odegaard as he wanted to see the midfielder in his Borussia Dortmund team.
Klopp, who has previously been in charge of the Bundesliga club, was highly interested in Odegaard. Despite the manager's wish to see the player in his side, Odegaard ended up joining Real Madrid.
"I like him [Odegaard] a lot, that’s easy in the moment I think," Klopp said in an interview with TV2, via Football London.
"It was a bit more difficult at the start of his career at Madrid, it didn’t look like it would work out.
"I was really disappointed about that because we wanted him at Dortmund, we wanted him as well when he was very young, we had a long talk when he was a kid still, with his dad, in the end he decided for Madrid, that’s fine.
"That’s why I’ve followed him always, I’m really happy he’s become the player we all expected him to be, and even better if you want, he has a massive role in an unbelievably strong Arsenal team. He’s still young, clear mind, very influential, cannot say anything negative about him, to be honest. A top player."
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