Jürgen Klopp says he’s not leaving Liverpool for a particular reason

German gaffer Jürgen Klopp confessed he was not planning to decamp from Liverpool for a reason his interviewer mentioned.

Klopp was speaking post-match following a painful loss to underdog Manchester United in the ongoing FA Cup competition. After getting beat (4-3) by an extra-time goal from Amad Diallo, the Reds lost an opportunity to be in the finals.

But many could imagine that Klopp, who mentioned sometime this year that he would be leaving at the end of the Premier League season, might be doing so for his own health. The coach is one of the best paid of his profession in Europe, but the weight associated with his task is expected to be too heavy sometimes.

While being interviewed in a press conference after the defeat, a bold interviewer asked the manager whether he was leaving because of the tiring feelings that came with losing matches. Klopp replied as follows:

‘Neither, nor – nothing to do with that. If you see me watching football for a team I like, quite emotional as well. So you can have that as well without being in the dugout.

‘Didn’t think about that, it’s other things. We can talk about my situation as long as you want, I just can’t change my answers, to be honest. When you are winning that [the touchline] is a great position to watch a game; when you are losing it’s pretty much the worst, you stand there. That’s how it is.

‘It’s all fine, I had that all often enough, I don’t know exactly how many games I had now as a manager but I had that quite a few times. It’s nothing to do with that, [like] if we win a game then I want to stay manager, if we lose a game I don’t want to stay manager. [Or] if the atmosphere is great I want to be manager, if the atmosphere is not good I want to leave.

‘It’s a general decision about something which has nothing to do with these little moments or whatever.

I am really sorry if I cannot explain it properly enough. Maybe I have to say it in German and you can all translate it! I’m not sure that will be better, by the way! Nobody has to worry about anything. It’s not that I say, oh my God, that’s so great. I love absolutely everything about the things I do. But I need to be on my top game to do it like I do it.

‘If I feel I am not there then I am not the manager I have to be anymore. That’s how it is. Then you are not only a little bit worse, you are then immediately properly worse and then you are in the wrong place. If you can see that early, you make a decision.’

Liverpool’s loss was a shock to many who did well to note that the Merseyside team was among the present best in Europe while Manchester United was far below the mark.

It is even imaginable that Liverpool’s good run might have made them complacent in a sense and unwary of their Manchester opponents.

Klopp shared his view of the game at the same interview.

‘Obviously today was on and above the edge, it was really tough for us with the 130 or whatever minutes. United had the clear best start, it was obvious, they scored the early goal.

‘We had to organise ourselves a little bit better, we struggled with the man-marking, didn’t play enough, all these kinds of things. In the moment when we found for the first time a way to play then we get rhythm and then it looked really good.

‘Then we were absolutely deserved 2-1 up. And second half was exceptional, absolutely exceptional what we played here.

‘But we didn’t finish the game off and when you leave the door open away from home at Old Trafford, it’s clear they will get chances. They could score the equaliser and Marcus big chance at the end of normal time, so they can win it there.

‘I see that, it’s clear. Then it got really hard for us, then it was really hard for us. That was now the first time that I really saw my team struggling, that’s how it is. We played a lot of football recently.

‘Then we go 3-2 up, all good. Then they score, 3-3, 4-3. Come on, easily can accept that, congratulations to United, they fought extremely hard as well.

‘That’s how it is, you want to go to the semi-finals. I think everybody who saw the game today saw two teams who both understood the importance of the occasion and the competition. We tried absolutely everything. Today we didn’t get a lot for it, not to say nothing.

‘So, now the boys have to recover, it’s really tough – they fly now all around the world pretty much and in five or six days’ time play the first of two games. Let’s really hope and pray they come all back healthy and then we will start the rest of the season. So many good things I saw today.

‘The mood today, when you think about in general the game without being Liverpool and Man United, you think, OK, that was quite some football. And that’s exactly how it should be. I’m happy with that part. Not with the result obviously.’

All said, Liverpool is still among the leaders on the Premier League table.

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