Klopp reveals: "I don’t want to work as a coach anymore"

Former Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp revealed that he doesn't want to return to coaching. Talking to The Athletic, the 58-year-old Klopp - currently the global head of soccer at Red Bull - admitted he's not missing his previous life at all.

Therefore, his decision never to return to the dugout seems reasonable, but still...

"That's what I think. But you don't know. I'm 58. If I started again at 65, everybody will say, 'You said you'll never do it again!' Er, sorry, I thought 100 per cent (when I said it)! That is what I think now. I don't miss anything."

"I was in so many different countries as a coach and I saw nothing of them; just the hotel, the stadium or the training ground. Nothing else. I did not miss it, but I would now.

"So during almost 25 years, I twice went to a wedding - one of them was mine and the other one was two months ago. In 25 years, I have been four times at the cinema."

Asked if he maybe still watches all of Liverpool's games, the German tactician was more than honest:

"Not. At. All," he said. "I was super happy with the way Liverpool performed. I watched some games. But it is not like, 'Oh, it's Saturday!'

"I didn't know when games started. I was just out. I played sports. We enjoyed life, spent time with the grandkids, completely normal stuff, knowing I will work again. But knowing as well, that I don't want to work as a coach anymore."

Reminiscing about his coaching career, the charismatic ex-Reds boss, concluded he had had it all.

"You look at my career, there are much more successful careers than mine. But I had it all.

"I lost more Champions League finals than most people play. I know how to lose and how life goes on. I don't need to keep my experience for myself. I never did, but I just never had time to talk to people about it because it was the next game coming up. Now if somebody asks me something, I'm the most open book I know."

Klopp said he told his girlfriend Ulla, now his wife, in 2001 that he would do "25 years at full throttle without looking left and right" as a football coach. And if it didn't work out?

"Ulla said I can drive a taxi."

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