Why is Jurgen Klopp leaving Liverpool? Potential final game details
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp will resign from his post in the months to come – we have all the details.
The Jurgen Klopp era at Liverpool Football Club will officially draw to a close in 2024.
Liverpool posted a stunning announcement video across their social media accounts on Friday 26th January to confirm their beloved boss will stand down from his post.
Klopp will continue to manage Liverpool until the end of the 2023/24 season, at which point he will depart the club. This means his last game will be Liverpool v Wolves at Anfield on 19th May – unless Liverpool progress to either the FA Cup or Europa League final.
If they reach the final of the domestic cup competition, that would mean Klopp's final game is the Wembley showpiece on Saturday 25th May. However, if they don't reach the FA Cup final, but they do make it all the way in the Europa League, Klopp would bow out on Wednesday 22nd May at the Dublin Arena in Ireland.
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The news has taken the football world by storm, with one huge question remaining: why?
Liverpool are currently top of the Premier League table with less than half of the season to go, meaning it could be a glittering end to the journey for the German boss.
RadioTimes.com brings you all the details behind Jurgen Klopp's shock departure.
Why is Jurgen Klopp leaving Liverpool?
Jurgen Klopp is leaving Liverpool due to, in his words, "running out of energy".
In an interview posted by Liverpool FC, he said: "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."
In an extended transcript of the chat, he said: "I am OK. I am healthy, as much as you can [be] at my age. Little bits and bobs, stuff like that, but nothing anybody has to be concerned about, so that's absolutely fine. I told the club already in November.
"In an ideal world I wouldn't have said anything to anybody until the end of the season, win everything and then say goodbye. That's not possible.
"In the world we are living in, it's not possible to keep things like this secret; it's maybe a surprise that we could keep it [a secret] until now."
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