JURGEN KLOPP is slowly but surely getting used to life without football.
The German manager is currently unemployed after his nine-year love affair with Liverpool came to an end following the culmination of the 2023-24 season.
Klopp, however, won’t be immediately jumping back into a dugout as he plans to take a break from management to spend some time with his wife Ulla Sandrock.
But he’ll soon be jumping into a plush pool at his stunning villa in Majorca.
The 56-year-old spent £3.4million on the amazing mansion, where he’ll spend his days relaxing after “running out energy” in his final years at Anfield.
He told BILD: “I’ve dreamed of having a house in the south all my life.
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“I like the weather, the climate, I like the people.
“There are lots of things I like here and also people I already know. It’s not like I’m looking for new friends.
“I already have friends for life, and if some of them are here too, that’s cool.”
As much as he loves the Balearic island, Klopp won’t permanently up sticks to the Spanish hotspot.
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“I don’t want to emigrate,” he revealed. “We go on holiday here every now and then.
“But when I’m here, I want everything to be as I know it.
“That’s totally boring but the point is that I want to get to know a different life, but not somewhere in the jungle or on the mountain.”
Part of the attraction of having a home away from home in Majorca for Klopp was the facilities in place for when he eventually calls it a day.
He admitted: “We’re getting older and the medical care here is great.
“There are many German doctors and I would like to be able to understand every word, how I feel and so on, when the problems become bigger.”
Although he admits he’s no longer a spring chicken, retirement couldn’t be any further from Klopp’s mind.
He said: “It’s out of the question that I’ll stop working altogether.
“But I don’t see myself continuing at the same pace as before at the moment.”
Klopp has botched his Liverpool exit… and it’s cost him his legacy, says Dave Kidd
By Dave Kidd
NOW we know Jurgen Klopp’s final major trophy haul at Liverpool — one Champions League, one Premier League, one FA Cup, two League Cups and (if you must) a World Club Cup.
But where does his reign stand among the greatest of the Premier League era?
In black-and-white terms, Klopp is way behind Sir Alex Ferguson and Pep Guardiola, the only two men to have won multiple Premier Leagues and a Champions League at the same club.
Those two sit alongside Brian Clough, Bob Paisley and Sir Matt Busby as the undoubted all-time managerial greats of the English game.
But Klopp ranks in the next tier down — with Arsene Wenger, Jose Mourinho (the Chelsea version), Bill Shankly and Don Revie.
These were all men with the strength of character to transform their clubs in their own image and enjoy success but who did not win as much as they might have done.
Had Klopp managed to keep his intentions under wraps and ended up with another title, perhaps even a treble or quadruple, he’d have edged himself up into that highest echelon with Ferguson, Guardiola, Clough, Paisley and Busby.
But deciding the timing and the manner of your exit is one of the toughest calls for any manager or sportsman.
Klopp got it wrong.
Read Dave Kidd’s take on Klopp’s demise in full here.
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
