German tactician Jurgen Klopp has announced that he will be leaving Liverpool at the end of the season.
In a shock video on the club’s socials, an emotional Klopp said: “I will leave the club at the end of the season. I understand that it’s a shock. I can understand that it’s a shock for a lot of people in this moment when you hear it for the first time, but obviously, I can explain it – or at least try to explain it.
“It is that I am, how can I say it, running out of energy. 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.”
Assistant managers Pepijn Lijnders and Peter Krawietz, as well as elite development coach Vitor Matos, will also vacate their positions at the end of the season, with Lijnders keen to pursue his own career in management.
