Thursday 14 February 2019 19:59, UK
Jurgen Klopp reveals how he met Liverpool fan and James Bond actor, Daniel Craig, how he keeps himself undercover and why you should not call his side's Marbella trip a holiday...
He has become one of football's most recognisable faces since taking over as Liverpool manager, and the door has opened into Hollywood for Jurgen Klopp.
"Many famous actors are Liverpool fans," Klopp says, in an exclusive interview with Sky Germany.
He was a little shaken, not stirred, when a secret agent wanted to be introduced after a Liverpool match at Anfield, though.
"Daniel Craig, who plays James Bond, wanted to meet me after a game in the boot room," Klopp laughs. "Famous people are also normal people.
"He is a good guy and it's nice when James Bond wants to meet you."
With Klopp's fame has come some unwanted attention.
"I don't go into town, just for games and training," he says. But it is not just since he arrived on Merseyside.
I had to celebrate my stag party in a Santa Claus costume so I wasn't recognised.
"My life in Mainz, it wasn't like I could do what I wanted. I had to celebrate my stag party in a Santa Claus costume so I wasn't recognised.
"In Dortmund it was difficult too and in Liverpool it won't get any easier. It helps me that I prefer not to be outside."
Klopp's preference for the indoors may come in handy.
Liverpool's first-team squad are in Marbella as they enjoy a 10-day break to prepare for the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie against Bayern Munich on Tuesday, with Klopp's side already out of the FA Cup.
But do not call it a holiday.
"First of all it's not that warm," says Klopp. "We are here to concentrate on training and recuperation.
"It's just a bit different. We're only here for four days, it's not like we're here a great long time. It's four days, five sessions, concentrated work. The boys can lie down in between, have a nap, the food is right - it's just perfect.
"We're making the most of the opportunity, it doesn't have much to do with the weather."
Former Bayern Munich player and World Cup-winning Germany captain Lothar Matthaus has previously heaped praise on Klopp for his ability to get the best out of people around him.
Klopp plays dumb when asked how he achieves this, "no idea, I cannot say".
Instead he stresses how important it is to him that "we use the time in life when we are together to make things better for ourselves, whether with family, with friends, and likewise with my team".
That goes for everybody at the club.
"We have about 80 people at the Melwood training ground," says Klopp.
"We've twice taken these 80 people, with their families, on holiday to Tenerife, with the team there too and me. That helps the feeling of togetherness."
Asked if the likeable persona Matthaus refers to is a gift, Klopp admits it must be because "I don't know how it works".
"I like to be a nice guy, but I'm not always nice," he says. Perhaps it is another disguise.
