“I could have said yes”
Klopp explains: That’s why I didn’t want to be a national coach
06/27/2025 – 8:46 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The long-term success coach comments on a possible comeback-and reacts to his job at Red Bull. The 58-year-old also speaks about the national coaching office.
More than a year after his farewell to FC Liverpool, Jürgen Klopp has again given a clear rejection of a comeback as a coach. “Finally, here and there someone said to me: ‘Man, you will definitely sit down on the bench soon’. My feeling tells me: No. I loved my job. But I miss nothing,” said the 58-year-old in an interview with the “Welt am Sonntag”.
Criticism of his new function as Head of Global Soccer at the Red Bull Group takes “no evil”. But: “Tell me a sponsor – gladly in Germany – who takes a lot of money in hand only for ancientian reasons and because he finds the sport so horny. Nobody,” said Klopp, emphasizing that he deliberately no longer striving for a coaching role. “I didn’t want to be a head coach anymore, I wanted to pass on experience in exactly this function that I now have.”
Despite his new task, he is not necessarily drawn back into the stages of his former clubs Borussia Dortmund and Mainz 05. “Not because I don’t want to go there,” said Klopp, but because he does not want to put anyone in an uncomfortable situation. “Maybe in one: ‘What does the bum here want here?’ And the other replies: ‘that’s the Kloppo.’ “
In addition, Klopp also commented on the decision at that time not to be available for the office of national coach after the dismissal of Hansi Flick. “The season before that was not so good for Liverpool,” recalls Klopp. “I could have said that because it might have been better to do something else.” However: “I didn’t want to. And the decision was not about the job of the national coach itself. I couldn’t leave Liverpool like that.”