JURGEN Klopp has announced his decision to step down as Liverpool manager at the end of the season.
Following the news of his departure, we take a look at the football manager’s salary at Liverpool, his sporting career, and what he has said about his exit.
In November 2023, The Sun revealed the ultimate football managers rich list – and it included Jurgen Klopp.
According to reports, his contract at Anfield was said to be worth around £15million-per-year.
It has also been reported that in 2021, Klopp earned £6.7million from advertising deals.
In January 2024, it was reported that Jurgen Klopp is sensationally set to leave Liverpool at the end of the season.
The football manager took over at Anfield back in October 2015 – but has now decided to call time on career with Liverpool.
Klopp explained his decision to step down in an emotional interview, with the football manager revealing that he is running out of energy and cannot continue in the job year after year.
He informed Liverpool’s owners of his intention to quit in November.
Aside from his stint at Liverpool, Klopp has managed a number of other clubs.
He has also managed and played for FSV Mainz 05, and later managed Borussia Dortmund from 2008 to 2015.
Klopp confirmed his departure in an emotional statement on the club’s website, which read: “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.
Jurgen Klopp
“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 continued: “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.”
