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Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’

Says social media claims are ‘nonsense’ and ‘idiocy’ Coach sees ‘no reason to pay attention to these people’ Jürgen Klopp has reacted with disgust to a social media debate questioning whether the Germany team he is in the process of forming are “white enough”. Klopp said he believed there was no point in giving room to “such people and their utterances”, dismissing them as “complete nonsense”.

— The Guardian — Football, publisher's words · Read the original ↗

22 outlets8 languages10 countriesUpdated

Who broke it

WELT — Sport

DE · DE

The Anfield Wrap had it earlier but cites The Independent, so we do not credit it.

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Our read

Corroborated (10)

10 of 15 outlets each added at least one detail no earlier report had; the other 5 repeat it. That is independence, not agreement: two of them can still contradict each other.

Judged on the 15 outlets in our latest edition; the timeline keeps all 22 we have seen.

Coverage timeline

22 outlets · first-seen order
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    The Anfield WrapEN · GBOwn reporting

    Don’t Cry Over Sham Man City, Smile Over Klopp’s Liverpool

    Cites The Independent

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    11FreundeDE · DEOwn reporting

    News: Jürgen Klopp - Der Medienmatador

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    Mundo Deportivo — FútbolES · ESOwn reporting

    Sammer: "Adeyemi es un gran jugador, sin duda"

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    TRT Spor — FutbolTR · TRRepeats

    Jürgen Klopp ilk galibiyetini aldı

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First seen is our own clock across 245+ feeds; it is not a guarantee of who published first. Each time is the earlier of the publisher's own timestamp and our first sighting. Headlines and summaries are the publishers' own words, linked to the original. How we work out who broke it.