Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has now made a major call on his time at Anfield.
The German tactician has officially announced that he will be departing the Merseyside club when the current season comes to an end.
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Jürgen Klopp has announced his decision to step down as #LFC manager at the end of the season, having informed the club's ownership of his wish to leave his position in the summer.
— Liverpool FC (@LFC) January 26, 2024
Klopp has outlined the reasoning behind his decision, stating that it was one he felt he had to make.
"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," he told Liverpool's official website.
"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."
He was appointed Liverpool manager in October 2015 and brought much success to the Reds, winning the UEFA Champions League in 2019 before clinching Liverpool's first domestic league title after 30 years in 2020.
The former Borussia Dortmund manager also won the FIFA Club World Cup as well the UEFA Super Cup in the same year. He then achieved a domestic double by winning the FA Cup and the Carabao Cup in 2022.
"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," the Liverpool boss added.
"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."
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