FOOTBALL BREAKING NEWS
Jürgen Klopp To Leave Liverpool At The End Of The Season
"I'm running out of energy", Klopp says
Liverpool boss Jürgen Klopp will leave the club at the end of the 2023/2024 season, as announced via the club's official website.
The news comes as a shocker to the Premier League, especially the Liverpool fans who have enjoyed eight years of the German's rock-'n'-roll football as Liverpool and Manchester City have dominated the league in that period.
The German head coach signed for the Merseyside club Liverpool in 2015 and has won the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, and the Carabao Cup during his eight years stint at the club.
He also won the UEFA Super Cup and the Club World Cup with Liverpool in 2019.
In a 25 minutes video released by the club this afternoon, Jürgen Klopp says:
"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 it 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.
"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."
Until Klopp's departure from the club, der Deutsche Mann remained one of the best managers the Premier League has ever seen, winning Liverpool's first league trophy in 30 years after they pipped fierce rivals Manchester City to the trophy in the 2019/20 season.
Jürgen Klopp will always hold a special place - to be overtaken by none - in the hearts of the Liverpool supporters as the Kop will always remember his fist pumps and classic bear hugs.
The German's huge clashes with the City boss Pep Guardiola will be rivalled like none ever before as their two clubs have produced some of the greatest, captivating, and most enthralling title races ever seen in the Premier League.
Pep Guardiola's Manchester City have denied Liverpool two Premier League trophies as City won the league in the 2018/19 season with 98 points as Liverpool came second on 97 points. And in the 2021/22 season, City needed a miraculous comeback against Aston Villa to win the league on the last day of the season with 93 points, beating Liverpool by a point who came second on 92 points.
Alongside Jürgen Klopp, his assistant managers Pepijn Lijnders and Peter Krawietz and the development coach Vitor Matos will leave Liverpool at the end of the season.
Rumors are already beginning to swirl on social media that the Liverpool boss is set to become the new manager of the Germany National Team as their turmoils at international level continue.
The Athletic had previously reported in September 2023 that Jürgen Klopp could become the new manager of the Germany National Team.
The interim manager of the Germany National Team Julian Nägelsmann has already been tipped as a successor to the Liverpool boss as well as Xabi Alonso of Bayer Leverkusen but it remains to be seen what steps the Merseyside club will consider as they continue their push to win four trophies this season, namely the Premier League, Europa League, FA Cup, and the Carabao Cup.
Liverpool are next in action on Sunday in the FA Cup against Championship side Norwich City and will face Chelsea the following Wednesday in the Premier League.
Liverpool are already in the Carabao Cup final against Chelsea and are five points clear at the top of the Premier League table. The club has been urged by Sky Sports pundit and former Liverpool player Jamie Carragher to "go out with a bang."
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