Brighton and Hove Albion striker Glenn Murray has admitted Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp 'gets in your head' with his pre-game ritual of watching the opposition warm-up.
Klopp stands on the halfway line and assesses his rivals with the routine becoming a familiar sight at Anfield.
Murray, 36, told talkSPORT : “I don’t know if anyone’s noticed it.
“He’ll walk right up to the halfway line and stand right on the spot and he’ll just stare into the opposition half. It’s really off-putting.
“He just stands on the halfway line and just watches the opposition warm up.
“It really throws you the first time it happens because you’re like, ‘what is he doing? He’s not even looking at his own team, he’s just watching us’.
“He won’t break his view, he’ll just keep watching the whole time.
“It gets all the players talking. Everyone’s like, ‘what’s he looking at? What’s going on?’ He sort of gets in your head before the game starts!”
Former England striker Darren Bent claimed Nigel Pearson even challenged Klopp on his behaviour before an EFL Cup game in 2016.
“It’s funny Glenn says that because when I was at Derby, we were warming up and he did the exact same thing. He stood on the halfway line and watched us warm up.
“It took Nigel Pearson, who was in charge at the time, to go, ‘what’s going on here?’ He walked up to Jurgen Klopp and went, ‘is everything alright?’ He said ‘yeah, yeah, yeah’ and trotted away.”
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