Klopp hints at sensational Liverpool return in near future despite his roles with Red Bull and German league.
‘‘It’s possible’: Jürgen Klopp says return to manage Liverpool could yet happen.
According to Jürgen Klopp, it is “theoretically possible” that he may eventually lead Liverpool again. After nine revolutionary years that included the club’s first league trophy in thirty years and a Champions League victory, the 58-year-old left Anfield in 2024. He now serves as the Red Bull Group’s president of worldwide football and as an advisor to the German football league.
Although many of Klopp’s admirers would be happy to see him back, Liverpool won the Premier League the previous season under Arne Slot. During an extensive conversation on the podcast The Diary of a CEO, he told Steven Bartlett: “I said I will never coach another team, a different team, in England. So that means if then it’s Liverpool … yeah. Theoretically it’s possible.”
He continued: “I’m 58, that means I could make the decision in a few years, I don’t know. Do I have to make the decision today? Then I will not coach again. But thank God, I don’t have to do that. I can just see what the future brings.”
Klopp admitted he was not instantly drawn to such a return. “I don’t even know exactly, I love what I do right now,” he said. “I don’t miss coaching; I don’t miss standing in the rain for two-and-a-half or three hours; I don’t miss going to press conferences four times, three times a week or having 10-12 interviews a week.
“I don’t miss the dressing room as a dressing room, but sitting in a restaurant with the players having a chat, that’s nice. We won a lot of games so there was often a very good mood in the building. I still have Virgil [van Dijk’s] laugh in my ear for example.”
Klopp also talked movingly about Liverpool’s reaction to the loss of Diogo Jota, a player he bought in 2020. In July, the Portugal international and his brother perished in a car accident.
“How do you replace somebody like Diogo? It’s not about the player himself, it’s the guy he was,” he said. “I can’t imagine the dressing room without him in it, that’s so hard. I still cannot speak properly about it. It was an incredible shock for all the boys as well. Nobody at Liverpool will ever use it as an excuse but it is the situation. You walk in a dressing room where he was omnipresent. Dealing with that on a personal level is not easy. Impossible.”