Georginio Wijnaldum: ‘Fans deserve to hear the true story’ | Football

sport">“I fight the tears, the people in Liverpool have given me so much love for five years,” said the Orange international, who had a public change at Anfield in the 77th minute. Manager Jürgen Klopp embraced Wijnaldum on the sidelines for a moment, after which he was embraced in the stands by Virgil van Dijk. Afterwards, the Liverpool players formed a guard of honor for the Rotterdammer, who was given a picture of ‘The Champions Wall’ on the field, which shows all the prizes that Liverpool have won.

sport">“I’m going to miss the people here enormously. “I would have loved to stay with Liverpool for many more years, but unfortunately things turned out differently. I have to start a new adventure somewhere. I have not signed anywhere else yet, everyone knows that anything can happen in football ”, said the former player of Feyenoord, PSV and Newcastle United, who won the Champions League with Liverpool, among other things. Wijnaldum has long been associated with FC Barcelona, ​​the club of trainer Ronald Koeman and Orange international Frenkie de Jong, but he would also be in the picture at Bayern Munich.

sport">Wijnaldum: „The situation now is that from 1 July I will no longer be a Liverpool player. We’ll see what I’m going to do in the coming weeks. I am going to rest and then I leave for Orange. I still have to think about how I’m going to tell my story. The fans deserved to hear the true story behind this. ”

sport">“Any club interested in ‘Gini’ should call me,” said Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp. “And then they will definitely take him, because I can only say positive things about what he has done here. It is unbelievable. Not only was he always available, he almost always played very, very well. It’s not always spectacular, but he gets the game. And he has scored some hugely important goals for us. ”

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