JURGEN Klopp has surprisingly announced that he will be leaving Liverpool at the end of the current campaign.
The German joined Liverpool as manager in October 2015 and has led them to success in the Premier League, UEFA Champions League, FA Cup and the Carabao Cup in his eight years in charge.
“I told the club already in November that I’m leaving at the end of the season,” the 56-year-old said today in a short video posted by Liverpool.
“I’m running out of energy, that’s the truth. I love absolutely everything about this club and Liverpool but I know that I cannot do the job again and again and again and again.”
Before his arrival at Anfield after a successful spell at Borussia Dortmund, Liverpool were struggling, consistently failing to qualify for the Champions League.
Klopp has turned around the English giants’ fortunes, becoming the only manager in their history to win the top-flight league title, the European Cup / UEFA Champions League, the EFL Cup and the FA Cup.
He is the only manager to break Pep Guardiola and Manchester City’s stranglehold on the Premier League title in the last six years, winning the trophy in the 2019/2020 season, the only time City failed to claim it since 2017.
Klopp could end his Liverpool reign in a blaze of glory in May as the Reds are currently on top of the Premier League, in the final of the Carabao Cup and in the latter rounds of both the FA Cup and the UEFA Europa League.
His assistant managers Pepijn Lijnders and Peter Krawietz and development coach Vitor Matos will also leave Liverpool at the end of the season.
