Jurgen Klopp has backed England Captain, Wayne Rooney by insisting today's football generation is the most professional in history.
Rooney was pictured playing a piano at a wedding party on Saturday night – where conflicting and contradictory reports from the same source said he was drinking until either 1am or 5am.
The forward has however found an unlikely ally in Liverpool boss, Klopp.
“What I can say is I feel really for the players. ''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.
“Sometimes we’re invited to weddings, birthdays or whatever and we can play the professional role still, ‘no we don’t drink.’
If you smoke please stand 20 yards away because I don’t want to be a passive smoker.
That is not how life works.
“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. I don’t know anyone now.”
Klopp even revealed that he threw a Christmas party for the Liverpool players last season after that heartbreaking defeat at Watford...and was shocked to find he had to encourage the players to have a drink!
“We had a Christmas party and I had to fill people’s glasses. It’s about timing – when you are in the wrong time at the wrong place and it’s not good as a professional,” the German added; it would never have happened in my day.....much.
“I have no idea where Wayne was but I’m pretty sure it’s not really serious. It is the not the nice part of our life. ''Our life sounds like a big catastrophe when things are not perfect. But it’s not like that.”
Klopp also suggested that the controversy was overstated, and he said perhaps people should move on if the player involved has been fined.
“Sometimes it is good to have a situation like this, you can fine the player and do something good with the money!
“From my point of view I don’t know much about it but I am pretty sure it is nothing.
Kloop added, the German national team were in Rome and I saw some pics of them in a restaurant.
They had no glass in their hand but do you say they didn’t drink? That’s how it is. We live life under a glass.
“We know it most of the time and we function, but sometimes not. In one, two, three weeks no one will remember what happened, so why make a big thing of it.”
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