Jurgen Klopp has admitted that he is an avowed fan of Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.
But he says that he prefers Dortmund's frenetic style of pressing football compared to the possession-based style of Wenger's team.
Speaking to the Daily Mail ahead of this week's Champions League tie between their teams, Klopp said:
"He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger. But he likes having the ball, playing football, passes... it’s like an orchestra," he said of his opposite number, while gesturing as if playing a violin, "but it is a silent song. I like heavy metal more. I always want it loud.
"I like Arsenal’s philosophy. I love it but I cannot coach it because I am a different guy. If you watch me during the game I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.
"If, in the last four years, Barcelona were the first team I saw playing when I was four years of age — this serenity of football, they win 5-0, 6-0 — I would have played tennis.
"It is not my sport. I don’t like winning with 80 per cent of possession. Sorry that is not enough for me. Fighting football, not serenity football, that is what I like."
