Jurgen Klopp will have been in post for over 10 years when his Liverpool contract expires in 2026 and the Reds boss is putting plans in place for his retirement
Jurgen Klopp has admitted he won’t be managing “beyond 70” with the German quick to rebuff emulating the career of ex-Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson.
Klopp, 55, has enjoyed a stellar seven-season stint in the Anfield dugout after taking up the post in October 2015. Since then he has completely revitalised the Merseyside outfit into one of the world’s most ambitious and successful clubs, scooping up every major honour along the way.
Penning a new four-year deal as recently as last season, which will take him up until the end of the 2025/26 campaign, Klopp is now the longest-serving Liverpool manager since Bob Paisley.
The German’s current deal is likely to take him past the three-time European Cup-winning boss, as the Reds’ third longest-serving manager of all time, behind Tom Watson and the legendary Bill Shankly.
However, Klopp has revealed he won’t be sticking around as long as either of those two. “I know I dream of football, so that’s not cool… the job is incredibly demanding, it is, but it’s great as well,” he told BT Sport podcast Mike Calvin’s Football People.
“So that’s why I say when Roy Hodgson came back again, when he came in, I saw him and ask him ‘do you have a wet flat? You go again?’ and he says ‘no, I love it’ so I cannot see myself beyond 70 and still standing on the dugout each weather, and especially each weather for training, one and a half, two hours, standing there in the wind.
“I can’t see that. But I understand a little bit where they are coming from and I hope other things are that interesting to me that I am really fine with not being involved any more.”
Also assessing his time in the Liverpool hot seat, Klopp was keen to show his affection towards the Reds’ “loyal” fanbase and how he strives to repay their faith.
Klopp continued: “Last week I got a question if I am too loyal. I’m not too loyal but questioning loyalty in general is a sign of our time, the time we are living in as well, which I really don’t like too much. I never saw anything bad in loyalty, to be honest, to your friends, to your family, to your company, in an ideal world you are loyal, and it’s not a one-way word.”
SOURCE: dailystar.co.uk
