Loris Karius said he spoke with Jurgen Klopp about eventually delivering a Premier League title to Liverpool upon signing for the club. ...
Loris Karius said he spoke with Jurgen Klopp about eventually delivering a Premier League title to Liverpool upon signing for the club.
Karius joined Liverpool from Mainz in summer 2016 in a £4.7 million deal and overtook Simon Mignolet as the club's first-choice goalkeeper in January.
Liverpool, who are Champions League semifinalists and bidding for a second-place league finish this season, have not won a top-flight title since 1989-90, with Karius and Klopp keen to change that.
"I spoke to the manager a few times when I came here and we had really good conversations," Karius told Liverpool's website. "He told me everything about the club; his first experiences, what he thought was different compared to Germany, how he enjoyed his time here.
"He gave me a really good feeling and, of course, I thought, 'This is a manager who can really develop me as a young player.' I believed in his plan, so pretty quickly I was sure that this was the club where I could take the next step.
"When I spoke with the manager we both agreed that the plan is to bring -- eventually -- the title back here because that's what the club deserves and wants so bad. That's what we said was the aim, so we're working on it every day -- to not just look at the past but to be part of the history soon, hopefully."
Prior to his move to Liverpool, Karius had previously spent time in England at Manchester City's academy between 2009 to 2011.
But Karius insisted his main reason for moving to Liverpool was how he envisaged fitting in, not merely just to return to the Premier League.
"It's not really just the league, the club has to be the right solution," he said. "I didn't set the target that I had to be in the Premier League. Of course, it was something I maybe wanted to do, but I was happy in Germany.
"I thought the league was really good there too, but the package [of] Premier League and Liverpool, I just had to do. It was the club that made we want to come here, not the league. All the history, it's a great club with great tradition."
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