sport
Share icon

Share

James Milner posts hilarious tweet after Jurgen Klopp’s demands to ‘landlord’ Brendan Rodgers

Published 19:55 8 Sept 2018 BST

Reuben Pinder
James Milner posts hilarious tweet after Jurgen Klopp’s demands to ‘landlord’ Brendan Rodgers

Homesport

James Milner is anything but boring

The Liverpool midfielder developed a reputation of being 'boring' over his long and successful career, purely down to his no-nonsense style of play. He's a grafter, he doesn't seek the limelight and he has a very plain hairstyle. However, with the benefit of social media, James Milner is slowly changing that reputation, one funny tweet at a time. This time it was a reference to a comment Jurgen Klopp made about his 'landlord', Brendan Rodgers, needing to fix some things in his house (Klopp moved into Rodgers' house when he was appointed Liverpool manager). Ahead of a charity match between Celtic and Liverpool today, which raised money for three beneficiary charities, Klopp said: "It'll be fun, especially because I meet my landlord, I think for the first time since he left Liverpool and I came here. We have a lot of things to talk about. "The plumbing issue, electricity, the pool and stuff like that. So Brendan, hope you are in good shape and we can sort a few things that day." The game finished 3-3 and raised a tonne of money for the Celtic FC Foundation, the Stiliyan Petrov Foundation and the James Milner Foundation. Milner then tweeted a picture of himself with his old manager Brendan Rodgers after the game, captioned '“So, I’m gonna put his rent up and not fix those taps...” https://twitter.com/jamesmilner/status/1038492822758936578?s=21 Keep these bangers coming, James, and you might get a new parody account on Twitter.
James Milner posts hilarious tweet after Klopp's demands to landlord Brendan Rodgers