Following the announcement of Jurgen Klopp’s departure from Liverpool Football Club at the conclusion of this season (2023/24), supporters got the most heartbreaking news they could not have predicted.
The German international revealed the announcement on Liverpool’s official website on Friday, January 26, 2024. According to Jurgen Klopp, this is the most difficult choice he has had to make since his association with the club.
He said,
I can understand that it’s a shock for a lot of people in this moment, when you hear it for the first time, but obviously, I can explain it or at least try to explain it. I love absolutely everything about this club, I love everything about the city, I love everything about our supporters, I love the team, I love the staff. I love everything. But that I still take this decision shows you that I am convinced it is the one I have to take.
He continued,
“It is that I am, how can I say it, running out of energy. I have no problem now, obviously, I knew it already for longer that I will have to announce it at one point, but I am absolutely fine now. I know that I cannot do the job again and again and again and again. After the years we had together and after all the time we spent together and after all the things we went through together, the respect grew for you, the love grew for you and the least I owe you is the truth and that is the truth.”
He was appointed Liverpool’s manager on October 8, 2015. Since his arrival, the team has won the UEFA Champions League, Premier League, FIFA team World Cup, FA Cup, League Cup, and UEFA Super Cup, in addition to the FA Community Shield.
Klopp’s deputy managers, Pepijn Lijnders and Peter Krawietz, as well as development coach Vitor Matos, will all leave their jobs at the end of the season.
