Former Liverpool manager says he doesn’t want to coach “until my last day”
Jurgen Klopp will not be returning to management despite being heavy linked to the Real Madrid job and having expressed his desire to coach the club in the past.
Klopp has not been in a dugout since leaving Liverpool in 2024 after nine years. The German has since taken up the role of Global Head of Sports at Red Bull. Madrid dismissed Xabi Alonso last week only seven months into the job.
“I don’t expect to change my mind, but I don’t know,” Klopp said. “We’re building a house right now and my missus wanted to have a really big trophy room. There was another small room and I said, ‘This is enough because we know how many trophies we have, we will not add any.’ It might sound arrogant but I know I can coach a football team. But I don’t need to do it until my last day.”
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Klopp won the Bundesliga twice with Borussia Dortmund, before going ahead to win the Premier League and Champions League with Liverpool. The 58-year-old also spoke about his coaching style.
“I never considered myself a world-class coach because I still had so many questions when I finished,” Klopp said. “I was like, ‘How can I be world-class with these questions still?’
“I never watch the goals back because I want to understand the game to the left and the right of the result. I want to understand why it happened.
“Results are the result of the performance. So we worked on the performance and the results came later.”
