Jurgen Klopp confirms intended timeline for return to management
- Klopp will step down from his position as Liverpool manager at the end of the season
- Reds boss admitted in his farewell interview that he may not return to work
- Also ruled out returning to the Premier League with any other side
By Tom Gott
Jurgen Klopp has insisted he plans to take at least one year away from work before considering a return to management.
Klopp will walk away from Liverpool at the end of the season and, when he announced the news, suggested he may never return to work as he longs for the life of a "normal guy".
In his press conference on Friday, Klopp proved a little more open to another job in the future but insisted he does not plan to give any thought to the idea for at least 12 months.
"I arrived here as a normal guy. In my understanding, I am still that, 100%," he said. "I never lived that life, and I want that as well, but I never wanted it that much. Just three or four weeks [break] in the summer was fine, but it's not anymore.
"What will happen in the future, I don't know now. I don't know now. No club, no country for the next year. No other English club ever. I can promise that. Even if I have nothing to eat, that will not happen."
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Klopp was also adamant that there is nothing that could change his mind about leaving Liverpool, confessing even a trophy-laden end to the campaign would not tempt him to reverse his decision.
"No, nothing," he said. "The situation was always clear because of our relationship within the club. I have to make the decision at one point because nobody else would have, because of the trust and the respect we have with each other.
"The owners knew I would take the decision, because I don't want to be hanging around. I have thought it through properly. I want to win everything this season but it wouldn't change my mind. If we don't win anything, it wouldn't change my mind. It's a decision I made independent of any results.
"We have a good basis, a really good basis to work with, and that's really important. That's why it's a good moment to give it to somebody else."
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