(London) Liverpool’s German coach Jürgen Klopp, in office since October 2015, will leave his post at the end of the 2023-2024 season, he announced Friday on the website of the English club, with whom he won the Champions League in 2019.
“It’s because I’m, how can I put it, short of energy,” declared the 56-year-old coach, winner of six major trophies in more than eight years with the Reds, to justify his surprise choice.
His deputies Pepijn Lijnders and Peter Krawietz will also leave their role at the end of the current season, said the current leader of the English championship, still in contention in the League Cup (qualified for the final), Coupe d England (qualified for 4e round) and Europa League (qualified in the round of 16).
Klopp informed the club’s owners as early as November, he explained.
“When we were sitting together and talking about potential hires, the upcoming summer internship and the possibility of going anywhere, the thought occurred to me that I wasn’t sure I was here anymore, this which surprised me myself,” he said in an interview with the official website.
Since his arrival on October 8, 2015, Liverpool have won six major trophies, including the Champions League in 2019 and the English championship in 2020, thirty years after the Reds’ last Premier League title.