Jurgen Klopp Announces Decision to Leave Liverpool

Jurgen Klopp will stand down from his position as Liverpool manager at the end of the season. Liverpool confirmed the news on Friday in an 1,231-word statement.

Jurgen Klopp will stand down from his position as Liverpool manager at the end of the season.

Liverpool confirmed the news on Friday in a 1,231-word statement.

The statement began: "Jurgen Klopp has announced his decision to step down as Liverpool manager at the end of the current season, having informed the club's ownership of his wish to leave his position when the 2023-24 campaign comes to a close."

Jurgen Klopp's time as Liverpool manager will end later this year :: IMAGO/PA Images/Adam Davy

Klopp was quoted within the statement as saying: "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.

"I love absolutely everything about this club, I love everything about the city, I love everything about our supporters, I love the team, I love the staff. I love everything. But that I still take this decision shows you that I am convinced it is the one I have to take.

"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."

Klopp has been in charge at Anfield since October 2015.

He has so far lifted seven different trophies as Reds boss, including the UEFA Champions League, Premier League and FIFA Club World Cup.

Klopp has taken charge of 466 Liverpool matches to date, winning 283 of them.

His win percentage of 60.73% is higher than that of every other manager in Liverpool's 131-year history.

Klopp has 17 Premier League matches left to navigate before he departs next summer.

His team are currently top of the table and also still in this season's League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Europa League.

Klopp has won the UEFA Champions League, Premier League, FIFA Club World Cup, FA Cup, League Cup, UEFA Super Cup and FA Community Shield since taking over at Liverpool in 2015 :: IMAGO/Action Plus/John Patrick Fletcher

Klopp added in Friday's statement: "I told the club already in November. I have to explain a little bit that maybe the job I do people see from the outside, I'm on the touchline and in training sessions and stuff like this, but the majority of all the things happen around these kind of things. That means a season starts and you plan pretty much the next season already.

“When we sat there together talking about potential signings, the next summer camp and can we go wherever, the thought came up, 'I am not sure I am here then anymore' and I was surprised myself by that. I obviously start thinking about it.

"It didn't start [then], but of course last season was kind of a super-difficult season and there were moments when at other clubs probably the decision would have been, 'Come on, thank you very much for everything but probably we should split here, or end it here.' That didn't happen here, obviously.

"For me it was super, super, super-important that I can help to bring this team back onto the rails. It was all I was thinking about. When I realised pretty early that happened, it's a really good team with massive potential and a super age group, super characters and all that, then I could start thinking about myself again and that was the outcome. It is not what I want to [do], it is just what I think is 100 per cent right."

Klopp's two assistant managers, Pepijn Lijnders and Peter Krawietz, will also leave Liverpool at the end of the season, along with elite development coach Vitor Matos.

Klopp will remain in charge until the end of the 2023/24 season :: IMAGO/Sebastian Frej