Jurgen Klopp Wishes Naby Keita The 'Best Of Luck' Ahead Of Liverpool Exit

The 28-year-old, who moved to Anfield ahead of 2018/19, with the club having agreed a deal with RB Leipzig for his transfer the previous summer helped Jurgen Klopp's side win a series of major honours.

Those trophies include the Champions League, FIFA Club World Cup, Premier League, Carabao Cup and Emirates FA Cup.

Klopp told Liverpoolfc.com: “Naby is an exceptional footballer, what a player he is. Maybe one or two injuries too many just hindered him from getting really through."

“But if you go through – and I would really recommend that – if you go through our really big games of Liverpool FC you might be surprised how often Naby was in the starting line-up and how often he played incredibly well.

“It was a bit a shame, when it was really going well then a little injury here, a little muscle thing there. That was not too cool and that is probably what people might remember as well, but in his moment he is world-class, without a shadow of a doubt.

“And I wish him the best of luck because he as well won absolutely everything here at Liverpool, which not a lot of people can say.”

On his favourite Keita goal, Klopp said: “For sure [against] Huddersfield, a very early goal in the game – a high press, going there and going between and finishing the situation off."

“It was a high-press situation and in the end Naby finished it off. It must have been at that time one of the really earliest Premier League goals I think, that’s at least how it is in my mind.

“A lot of other goals [were] fantastic shots, funny celebrations when everybody looked really surprised – Naby, this little man shooting like a real thunderbolt and you see him just standing there and smiling. It was absolutely great.”

Klopp finished: “Again, just the best of luck for the rest of his life because he deserves it.”

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