Jurgen Klopp discusses his Liverpool future amid poor season
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has insisted that he has no plans to leave the club in the near future despite the Reds' downturn in form.
Liverpool have endured a surprisingly poor 2022/23 campaign under Klopp, going from title-contenders to mid-table mediocrity seemingly overnight.
The Reds sit in eighth in the Premier League table, behind the likes of Brighton and Brentford, and suffered an early UEFA Champions League exit at the hands of Real Madrid.
Due to this form, speculation has been rife about Klopp's long-term future at Anfield, speculation which the manager himself was keen to downplay in a recent press conference.
"[At Dortmund], I stepped back and then we turned it around while I was stepping back. When I announced I would leave at the end of the season we played a good part, that is true. [Leaving Liverpool] is not my plan," he said.
"The difference at that time was we had the winter break so we had a really good second part of the season. I don’t know exactly if it was completely after I said I wanted to leave because the whole second part of the season was good. It was nearly normal, from where we were coming from.
"Players started coming back from injury and we started playing our football again. When players came back here so far it didn’t work out. That is the main difference.
"I tried a lot and in moments it did work out, and in others not. The inconsistency is the most annoying part of it, to be honest. Still we have to keep doing and trying."
Klopp's Liverpool will be looking to re-find some form after three defeats on the bounce when they travel to Stamford Bridge to face manager-less Chelsea on Tuesday evening.
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