The former Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp has announced that he will only return to Angeldd as soon as the club has already mathematically sealed the title of Premier League this season.
Klopp amazed Merseyside en masse with his decision to resign as a Liverpool boss at the end of last season. The revered German trainer has to return to the stadium for nine years and viewed from Are when Arne Slot led the club at the Premier League summit, the 16-year-old Champions League round of 16 and a Carabao Cup final.
Although Klopp had scored more than 90 points of the Premier League in three different seasons, he only increased a top title during his legendary term. However, there seems to be no bad will to his triumphal successor.
During a Q&A session on the ten-year anniversary of Hout Bay United Football Community, a Cape Town Klopp has a long-term relationship with which the ex-REDS boss was asked whether he gains the Premier League title after an open top bus parade in the increasingly more likely event.
“Yes, the plan is [to be in Liverpool] But I won’t be on the bus with the people I saw on the bus. That’s the idea of being honest, but we’ll see, “Klopp told the audience, how the South African outlet quotes News24.
Klopp also explained why he had distanced himself from a city that he had sworn to defend “forever”.
“I think I’ll be there for the last game,” the 57-year-old noticed. “I didn’t want to go earlier to be honest because I didn’t want to delay it all the time. When I was in the stadium for the first time and lose it, ‘oh f *** sake’. So I go there when it is decided.”
Other legendary bosses have followed different approaches. Sir Alex Ferguson moved almost immediately from Manchester United Dugout to the directors’ box after handing over the reins to David Moyes in 2013, while Arsene Wenger was waiting for more than four years before returning to the Emirates stage of Arsenal.
Liverpool has a uniquely successful story in which influential managers have been replaced – one that developed further – when Bill Shankly resigned in 1974. Similar to Klopp, the excellently quotable Scotsman fascinated the city with its decision to leave and make a new coach who was immense.
Shankly, who soon regretted his drastic choice of career, had to be banished from the club’s training area in the months after his retirement. Klopp has kept his distance so far, but is rejected with open arms at the end of a triumphal campaign.