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Since stepping down as Liverpool manager in 2024, Jurgen Klopp has wasted no time embracing new challenges in addition to his role as Global Head of Soccer for the Red Bull Group.
Back in Liverpool, Klopp, alongside his son Marc, is moving ahead to open “Klopp’s Padel FC,” a cutting-edge padel hub slated for Wavertree Sports Park. This £500,000 development will be the first site of its kind in the UK.
Adding yet another string to his bow, Klopp is also preparing for a high-profile return to the world’s footballing spotlight—albeit in a very different capacity. With the 2026 FIFA World Cup on the horizon, Klopp is set to lend his expertise as a pundit to Magenta TV.
But despite consistently confirming he has no intention of returning to the dugout, people who know the Liverpool legend maintain otherwise.
Bayern Munich Uli Hoeneß, speaking to Germany’s Tagesspiegel, has claimed that Klopp won’t be able to do the Red Bull role “forever”, and that he only sees the ex-Liverpool boss on “on the pitch”
I could never imagine him as an official who travels around the country, to New York, and looks after the different teams. And I don’t think that will be a good model in the long run. I also don’t think he’ll do that forever, I can’t imagine it.
“I’ve always admired Jürgen Klopp as a coach who is on the pitch. Someone who develops a team, who moves a team forward with his personality. I see Jürgen Klopp on the pitch and nowhere else.”
Klopp himself has also addressed a potential return to Liverpool FC as a manager, and asserted it was “theoretically possible” on the Diary of a CEO podcast:
‘I said I would never coach another team, a different team in England,” he said.
‘So that means if, then it’s Liverpool, yeah. Theoretically it’s possible.
‘I don’t even know exactly. I love what I do right now. I don’t miss coaching. I do coach, just different – not players – and I don’t miss it.’
‘I don’t miss standing in the rain for two-and-a-half or three hours and I don’t miss going to press conference three times a week, having 12 interviews a week. I don’t miss that. I don’t.’
‘I don’t miss being in the dressing room in a sense that I didn’t have it often. I coach one thousand and eighty-something games, so I was in a dressing room very often and I don’t want to die in the dressing room just because it’s nice. It smells!’
‘I’m 58. That’s, from your perspective, old, but from the other side it’s not. That means I could make the decision in a few years.’
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