Jurgen Klopp press conference LIVE: Liverpool manager addresses shock departure
The German will end nine years at Anfield, where he won six trophies with the Reds and produced one of the club’s finest teams
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Your support makes all the difference.Jurgen Klopp is to leave Liverpool at the end of the season, the German has confirmed in a shock announcement.
The 56-year-old has informed the club’s ownership of his decision to stand down, having taken charge at Liverpool in 2015.
Klopp has won six trophies with the Reds, including the Premier League title in 2020 and the Champions League trophy the year before. The German is due to speak to the media at 3pm this afternoon where he will react further to his decision which is set to shake the Premier League.
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Jurgen Klopp press conference
Here’s what Jurgen Klopp said to answer why now was the time to leave: “With all the responsibility you have in this job you have to be at the top of your which I am.
“I have been doing this for 24 years now and when you’ve had the career I’ve had, it’s pretty much impossible to start where I started and arrive at Liverpool. If it becomes possible it’s because you invested absolutely everything you had and that’s what I always did.
“I realised that my resources are not endless and I preferred to put everything into this season and have a break or have to stop.”
Jurgen Klopp press conference
Departing Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is about to start a press conference ahead of this weekend’s FA Cup tie against Norwich.
Some of the focus will be on the match but most of the questions will concern Klopp’s recently announced departure from the club as the German will leave Liverpool at the end of the season.
Let’s see what he has to say.
Jamie Carragher hopes departing Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp can go out with bang
Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher hopes Jurgen Klopp can “go out with a bang” after the German manager announced he will leave the club at the end of the season.
The 56-year-old has admitted he is “running out of energy” having led the club to six major trophies since taking charge in October 2015.
Carragher, who made 737 appearances for the Reds, posted on X, formerly Twitter: “This news was always going to be a body blow to the club whenever it came.
“I just thought it would be another few years away. What a manager, what a man, let’s go out with a bang Jurgen!”
Jamie Carragher hopes departing Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp can go out with bang
Klopp led Liverpool to six major trophies after joining the club in October 2015.
Klopp’s message to Liverpool supporters
“The message to supporters: I really would like you to accept the decision,” said Liverpool boss, Jurgen Klopp.
“That would be nice. And then if I can ask for one more thing, after telling you don’t sing my song too early, after telling you be loud in the stadium, stuff like this, if I could ask you for one more thing it would be: don’t make these games about me, because there’s no need.
“The only thing I always wanted was the full support for the team, it’s not for me. I know about our relationship, I don’t need any kind of proof.
“We will have a moment, maybe the last matchday here or somewhere else – I mean in other countries or other competitions. There’s enough time to do these kinds of things. Let’s now really go for it.
“The outside world want to use this decision, laugh about it, want to disturb us. We are Liverpool, we went through harder things together. And you went through harder things before me.
“Let’s make a strength of it. That would be really cool. Let’s squeeze everything out of this season and have another thing to smile about when we look back in the future. Thank you.”
‘I’m running out of energy’: Klopp explains reason for Liverpool departure
Jurgen Klopp, who took over from Brendan Rodgers, in October 2015, has won every club trophy possible during his time at Liverpool but is standing down in the summer as manager, explaining his decision to supporters in a 25-minute interview on the club website.
“It is that I am, how can I say it, running out of energy,” he said. “I have no problem now, obviously, I knew it already for longer that I will have to announce it at one point, but I am absolutely fine now.
“I know that I cannot do the job again and again and again and again.
“After the years we had together and after all the time we spent together and after all the things we went through together, the respect grew for you, the love grew for you and the least I owe you is the truth – and that is the truth. That’s it, pretty much.”
Jurgen Klopp’s honours as Liverpool manager
Jurgen Klopp has announced he will leave Liverpool at the end of the season, a moment which will bring to an end another successful chapter in the club’s history.
Klopp arrived at Anfield late in 2015, tasked with bringing trophies back to the club. Here’s what he won:
2019 – Uefa Super Cup
Another final, another penalty shoot-out win over Chelsea, this one coming in Istanbul after a 2-2 draw following extra time between the winners of the Champions and Europa Leagues. Mane scored a brace in the match, before Tammy Abraham’s missed penalty gave Liverpool the title.
2019 – Club World Cup
Roberto Firmino ensured Klopp was able to end 2019 with three non-domestic trophies, with the Club World Cup going alongside the Super Cup and Champions League. The Brazilian scored an injury-time winner in a 2-1 semi-final win over Monterrey in Qatar, before his extra-time winner saw off Flamengo to win the final 1-0.
Jurgen Klopp’s honours as Liverpool manager
Jurgen Klopp has announced he will leave Liverpool at the end of the season, a moment which will bring to an end another successful chapter in the club’s history.
Klopp arrived at Anfield late in 2015, tasked with bringing trophies back to the club. Here’s what he won:
2018/19 – Champions League
This one ranks alongside the 2020 Premier League as Klopp’s crowing glory; a sixth European title for Liverpool coming thanks to a 2-0 win over Tottenham in an all-English final played in Madrid.
Liverpool booked their place in the final with an improbable come-from-behind semi-final win over Lionel Messi’s all-conquering Barcelona team, while on the night goals from Mo Salah and Divock Origi earned them the Champions League title.
The Reds enjoyed great success and consistency in the competition under Klopp too, being losing finalists in 2018 and 2022, while they were also runners-up in the 2016 Europa League.
Jurgen Klopp’s honours as Liverpool manager
Jurgen Klopp has announced he will leave Liverpool at the end of the season, a moment which will bring to an end another successful chapter in the club’s history.
Klopp arrived at Anfield late in 2015, tasked with bringing trophies back to the club. Here’s what he won:
2021/22 – FA Cup
Liverpool’s run to the final saw them beat Shrewsbury, Cardiff, Norwich and Nottingham Forest, before an all-the-more difficult semi-final assignment against Manchester City. Two goals from Sadio Mane secured a somewhat unexpected win, before beating Chelsea 6-5 on penalties in the final.
2021/22 – League Cup
Beating Chelsea on penalties in the FA Cup final may have felt familiar to Klopp as some three months earlier his side had done the same thing to beat the same opposition and win the League Cup.
This time it was a lengthier shoot-out, going all the way to the goalkeepers, with Liverpool’s regular reserve, Caoimhin Kelleher, scoring the decisive penalty for an 11-10 success.
2022 – Community Shield
Liverpool’s FA Cup success meant another showdown with Manchester City, this time in the Community Shield, a match played at Leicester due to the Women’s Euro 2022 final at Wembley.
Big-money summer signing Darwin Nunez capped a 3-1 victory and another piece of silverware for Klopp, whose men ran out 3-1 winners.
Jurgen Klopp’s honours as Liverpool manager
Jurgen Klopp has announced he will leave Liverpool at the end of the season, a moment which will bring to an end another successful chapter in the club’s history.
Klopp arrived at Anfield late in 2015, tasked with bringing trophies back to the club. Here’s what he won:
2019/20 – Premier League
Perhaps the one which matters the most to Liverpool fans, Klopp returned the first league title in 30 years as his side finished 17 points clear of Manchester City.
The sadness for the supporters was that, as it came during lockdown, no fans were present in the stadium to celebrate the success, which was confirmed when nearest rivals City lost at Chelsea. Klopp’s men won 32 of their 38 games that season.
Liverpool’s cup specialist facing repeat dilemma ahead of Wembley return
Six appearances, five trophies. It has become the stuff of legends at Anfield – or at least of infamy, hilarity and a lesson in perfect timing – but the modern-day second-choice goalkeeper at Liverpool contributes an awful lot more than Pegguy Arphexad did during his silverware-laden spell in the early 2000s.
Back then, the understudy to Sander Westerveld joined just as the Reds embarked on a regular cup-winning spree and was pretty much on the bench throughout, including most of the cup runs, playing mainly early-round games against the likes of FC Haka, Stoke and Ipswich. He does, however, have one crossover point with the current second choice between the sticks, Caoimhin Kelleher: League Cup fixtures against Chelsea.
For Arphexad, his debut came in a 2-1 extra-time win over the Blues, in a third-round clash at Anfield. For the Irishman, it was somewhat later in the same competition: the final at Wembley in 2022, where he kept a clean sheet, scored a penalty and helped his side win silverware.
Liverpool’s cup specialist facing repeat dilemma ahead of Wembley return
Caoimhin Kelleher will be in goal for the Reds’ Carabao Cup final aiming for a second winner’s medal
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