Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has made no secret that his time at Anfield is not going to last perpetually, opening up in recent times of his thoughts regarding an eventual exit. “I actually have absolute energy. But I actually have one problem. I am unable to do ‘somewhat bit’. I can only do ‘all or nothing’,” Klopp told Kicker Magazine in 2019. “Once I resolve that I cannot do it any longer then I’ll take a break for a yr.”
A yr later he admitted he could return to Mainz in the long run and even earmarked a leaving date. “Definitely to live, after my profession. Most definitely even to Mainz,” he explained to SWR Sport, adding he’d spend “4 [more] years in Liverpool,” before heading back to Germany. “In five years the world can look very different again.”
Then Klopp later doubled down and conceded that he may retire upon leaving Liverpool and his impending one-year hiatus. “I’ll take a yr off and ask myself if I miss football,” explained Klopp to SportBuzzer. “If I say no, then that will probably be the tip of coach Jurgen Klopp. If at some point I’m not a coach, there’s one thing I is not going to miss – the brutal tension immediately before the sport.”
