After sharing a quite a "touching story" about his life when he was 18 years old. Klopp tried to make a case for Rooney's late-night antics.
According to mirror.co.uk, he said, "‘These boys… this generation is the most professional generation of footballers not only in England, but England too has ever had. All the guys, all the legends we love and admire they drank like devils and smoked like crazy but they were still good players. No one does it any more."
"If they ask me six times a week “Can we go out? Can we go out?” then seven times I will say “no!”’ said Klopp. ‘We all know a few of them are doing it. Not going out but maybe having a party at home. They are young and sometimes if they don’t celebrate now it would be silly too.
‘I’ve not sympathy with it but when something happens, if it happens once fine him, take is money and do something good with it for the team, for the kit man or whoever. If then he thinks about the next drink, then think “really?”
‘I never had these problems actually but it can happen. It is not that serious. It doesn’t show anything that happens in general or with this player. I know we’re all on the sunny side of life, we earn a lot of money and do the job we love, but at the end maybe it comes as a surprise that we are also human beings too.’ "
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