Liverpool star reveals Jurgen Klopp’s text after Leicester’s landmark win

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Liverpool midfielder Curtis Jones has revealed details of a text message he received from his former manager Jurgen Klopp after he made 100 Premier League appearances for his boyhood club.

Graduated academic presented his century of trips to Victory 3-1 over Leicester City on Boxing Day, marking the milestone with a goal. Jones has been in fine form this season, flourishing in the more controlled version of football introduced by Arne Slot as he embraced his newly discovered paternity.

After scoring the tenth league goal of his blossoming Liverpool career, Jones revealed that the manager who gave him Premier League debut was the first to wish the best after the game. “I went in then and I usually text the family and I saw Klopp’s message saying: ‘Congratulations on 100 games and here’s to 500,'” the 23-year-old midfielder told the BBC Match of the day.

“I asked myself, ‘What is he talking about?’ I just checked then and I’m proud that he started the team we have now, and Arne Slot continued it.”

Curtis Jones did not quite manage to match the statistics of his legendary predecessor / Jan Kruger/GettyImages

Statistics in the first 100 PL appearances	Curtis Jones	Steven Gerrard
minute	5,098	7,132
Objectives	10	11
Assists	7	11

Jones boasts seven Premier League assists to go along with scoring in double figures – closing in on the tally set by Liverpool’s top academy graduate, Steven Gerrard, during his first century of league appearances.

The recent England international caused controversy during pre-season when he he found that Slot’s approach is based on possession was “more me” than Klopp’s style, which Jones described as “a bit too direct, up and down, up and down”.

Childhood Liverpool the fan was quick to clarify his comments and Klopp clearly bears no ill will towards his former player. Even if Jones reaches the optimistic number of 500 Premier League appearances set by his former German manager, he would still fall short of Gerrard (504) and Jamie Carragher (508) on the club’s record appearances list. However, unlike that legendary duoJones won the Premier League title.