Jurgen Klopp praised Ole Gunnar Solskjaer for the job he is doing at Manchester United, and said it is particularly encouraging to see him do well because of his lack of prior experience as a top-level manager.
Solskjaer was given the United job on an interim basis following Jose Mourinho's sacking in December 2018 and was installed as permanent boss three months later after a sensational run of form by his team.
There have been ups and downs aplenty in the two years since but United are in a far better place now than they were when he took over and Klopp is pleased for his counterpart, despite the rivalry between the two clubs they manage.
"It's nice to see when the quality of a manager is more important than the experience you have," Klopp said. "If you need to have 50 Champions League games as a manager before taking on a club like Manchester United, it'll be tricky to find one because there are not a lot of coaches out there with that experience.
"I think it's clear if Ole wouldn't have had successful history at Man United as a player then probably not so many people at United would've thought about him. But, because he did a brilliant job in Molde and has a Manchester history, that was the idea and nobody knew how it would work.
"It worked absolutely sensationally from the beginning and then had a little dip and now they look really good and he deserves credit for that together with his coaches. I'm happy for him to be honest because I'm really happy for a colleague to do really well and that's what he does."
