Jurgen Klopp announces he will leave Liverpool after 2023-24 season

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Jurgen Klopp, manager of Liverpool, will part ways with the club after the 2023-24 season, the 56-year-old German announced on Friday.

“That I still take this decision shows you that I am convinced it is the one I have to take,” Klopp told Liverpool’s official website. “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.”

Klopp took over Liverpool in October 2015. By Wednesday, the club had won 288 of the 464 games under him, including their first league title after a three-decade drought, one UEFA Champions League title and one FA Cup, among other honors.

Liverpool are currently leading the Premier League with 48 points after 21 games. Their long-time rivals, Manchester City, are five points behind in second place but have played one fewer game. The last time the two clubs played each other, it ended in a 1-1 draw at the Etihad Stadium on November 25, 2023. They will meet again at Anfield on March 9.

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“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 said.

Pepijn Lijnders and Peter Krawietz, assistant managers of Klopp in Liverpool, plus elite development coach Vitor Matos, will leave as well after this season. According to the club, Lijnders is “keen to pursue his own career in management.”

“I told the club already in November,” Klopp said. “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.”