Never say never, you might just end up wanting to do it after all, as Jurgen Klopp might make a comeback to the Reds soon.
Speaking in an interview on the Diary of a CEO podcast, the 58-year-old said,” I said I will never coach a different team in England, so that means, if I did return, then it’s Liverpool.
“So, yeah, theoretically it is possible.”
Klopp announced that his closing his nine-year chapter with Liverpool on January 26 2024. One of his reasons for leaving was due to Fatigue. Early this year he took on his first role as global head of soccer at Redbull after departing from Liverpool.
Klopp added:” Having 10 or 12 interviews a week, I don’t miss that. I don’t. I don’t miss being in the dressing room. I coached around 1,080 games so I was in the dressing room very, very often.
“I don’t want to die in the dressing room. It’s these kind of things. I’m 58. From your perspective that might be old, but from other perspectives, it’s not that old.
“That means I could make a decision in a few years. I don’t know. Do I have to make a decision today? I will not coach again, but thank God I do not have to do that, I can just see what the future brings.”
He also revealed that he was approached by Manchester United in 2013, after weeks of putting some thoughts into it he turned them down as he was about to step into the footsteps of the legendary Sir Alex Ferguson. It what could have been the best career move for him back then, but he felt like the project was “not for me “ .
“Yes, I spoke to them [Manchester United],” he explained.
“In the year when Sir Alex Ferguson retired, they spoke to me. Of course, they were interested.
“At one point. At that time I would have been interested. I was young, I had a sensational team at Dortmund, my God. They probably thought, ‘what is he doing there?’
“They tried. It was the wrong time, wrong moment. I had a contract at Dortmund and wouldn’t have left, not really for nobody at that time.
“There are some reasons [why he didn’t take the job]. The people in that conversation told me [things] which I didn’t like.
“United was that big – ‘we get all the players we want. We get him, we get him, we get him, we get him’, and I was sitting there … It was not my project.
“It was the wrong time but on top of that it was not my project. I didn’t want to bring back, I don’t know, Pogba.
“Paul is a sensational player, my God, but these things don’t work usually. Or Cristiano, my God, we all know together with Messi he is the best player in the world, but bringing back never helps.
“At that time in 2013, it was obviously not about Cristiano maybe about Paul, I’m not even sure, [I don’t] get the numbers [dates] together, but the idea is we bring the best players together and let’s go.”
After jumping ship from Borussia Dortmund to Liverpool in 2015, Klopp oversaw a total of 491 games in all competitions. He led the team to win eight major trophies, including the UEFA Champions League in 2019, the Premier League title in 2020, the FA Cup in 2022, the League Cup twice in 2022 and 2024, the UEFA Super Cup in 2019, the FIFA Club World Cup in 2019, and the Community Shield in 2022.
