Despite his departure from Liverpool, Jürgen Klopp is not an issue for FC Bayern’s current coaching search. Former CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge expects the former BVB coach to return to the sidelines quickly.
“He will be sitting on the bench somewhere again in a year at the latest,” said the 68-year-old in the “TOMorrow Business & Style” podcast. Rummenigge immediately provided a reason for his thesis: “We are all crazy, he is just like all of us.”
Klopp announced in January that his time at Liverpool would end at the end of the season and announced a longer break. He justified the step with a lack of energy. However, football is “a drug at this level,” emphasized Rummenigge. “At times a top trainer needs to get away from this drug, but at some point the danger of returning is more than latent, I can already predict that to you today.”
Klopp’s decision was “courageous” and “honest,” praised Rummenigge, but he also said: “At some point he will get the itch again.”
Coaches without a job “get bored at some point – and then they quickly want to have some top club again with which they can jazz things up and down in day-to-day business,” explained Rummenigge. The job is “not just financially lucrative. It’s also something that’s fun when you’re successful with a team.”
FC Bayern: Two coaches as a “benchmark”
However, Klopp is unlikely to end up at FC Bayern. The German record champions are already looking for a new head coach by summer at the latest due to their separation from Thomas Tuchel. “Benchmarks” are Jupp Heynckes and Pep Guardiola, explained Rummenigge. “It’s no coincidence that these are masters of their craft who have won everything.”
FC Bayern must “find that coach again who will look after this club with the same dedication as Jupp and Pep did,” said the former club boss, who now sits on the Munich supervisory board. But that will be “difficult because unfortunately good coaches don’t grow on trees,” said Rummenigge.
The coaching job was “always demanding,” said Rummenigge, “but today you almost have to be David Copperfield to meet the public’s expectations. That’s why top coaches are in short supply. The best work in England with earning potential that goes beyond Good and evil lie.”