Jurgen Klopp’s conditions for coaching another football club have been very clearly laid out in the past with the ex-Liverpool boss managerially unattached
Jurgen Klopp has not managed another club since leaving Liverpool in 2024(Image: Getty)
Iconic Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has already made it clear he wouldn’t manage a football club with overarching commercial priorities. The 58-year-old has been out of touchline management since departing Anfield in 2024.
In his nearly nine years in charge of the Reds, Klopp wrote his name into the club’s folklore with a Premier League and Champions League title, among other silverware. He stepped away of his own accord almost two years ago.
Since then, he has been endlessly linked with a return to the dugout and currently acts as Red Bull’s Head of Global Soccer. It has also been revealed that before he took the job at Anfield, the likes of Manchester United and Real Madrid reportedly courted him to no avail.
While the possibility of the German’s coaching comeback remains, he has made it abundantly clear that any team he manages must not place too much emphasis on the commercial side or allow the hierarchy to overly intervene. This could have scuppered United and Los Blancos’ reported past pursuits.
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Speaking in 2018 about why he chose to join Liverpool, Klopp said: “I love the history. I really am a football romantic. I knew I probably can help. They maybe really need me, in this time. I know what I’m good at.
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“When they told me about the problems they had I thought, ‘OK, yeah, I am probably the really right manager for that club’. They took me like I am, they didn’t ask me to do anything else, so I could focus from the first day completely on football.
The legendary manager left Anfield nearly two years ago(Image: Getty)
“It is a football club. A FOOTBALL club. I had talks with other clubs and they didn’t sound like a football club. It sounded like marketing, image, you need to sign this, you need to sign that. And I thought, ‘Wow, that’s not the game I love’.”
Just one year later, ex-Reds striker Robbie Fowler disclosed a conversation he had with Klopp, shedding light on supposed interest from Real Madrid and United as well as his values.
Fowler said: “I did an interview with him a couple of years ago and he told me he turned down a couple of super-rich clubs after Dortmund – one of them was definitely Manchester United and the other was probably Real Madrid.
“Because he hated how they were focused solely on commercial influences. He said he liked Liverpool because they had a balance between the money needed to reach the top and the history and identity of the club and their fans.”
Fowler opened up about a chat with Klopp(Image: Getty)
These conditions are already laid out for any side who might wish to approach Klopp in the future for a managerial position. But the German has claimed he won’t ever manage another English club besides Liverpool.
He said in 2024: “What I know definitely – I will never, ever manage a different club in England than Liverpool, 100 per cent. That’s not possible. My love for this club, my respect for the people, is too big.
“I couldn’t. I couldn’t for a second think about it. There’s no chance. This is part of my life, we are part of the family, we feel at home here. There’s no chance to do that.”
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