Jurgen Klopp has already held talks with Michael Edwards over the future route of Liverpool – but reiterated nothing can trade his thinking over leaving at the end of the season.
Edwards will return to Anfield in the summer time as Fenway Sports Group’s chief govt of football; a role that will see him take over the daily jogging of Liverpool from FSG president Mike Gordon.
One of his first tasks will be to help appoint a successor for Klopp, who is departing in the summer time after nearly 9 years in cost at Anfield.
Edwards, who left the Reds in 2022 after greater than a decade at the club, used to be integral as sporting director in assisting assemble the squad that, beneath Klopp, claimed a easy sweep of most important honours.And the departing Liverpool boss has given the incoming Edwards his feedback over the current Anfield landscape and is confident he will bid farewell to a membership in impolite health.
“We had a conversation,” stated Klopp. “Michael and I had a honestly accurate relationship. It was continually very precise on a professional basis, a lot of excellent things took place in the time for sure we have been here together. Michael determined to do something else and now he is back, I am surely happy.
“I’ve said a few instances that I favor it to see the membership in the great possible place after I left, so the whole lot we can do as lengthy as I am right here I will do. After that, different human beings have to do it.
“I think it is a pinnacle solution, honestly, and our conversation used to be obviously great. We spoke about a lot of things, about what I suppose about specific things, players, stuff like this, situations in the membership because I used to be right here all the time when he used to be not, what did change, what might have to change. It used to be a sincerely top talk, and it is top news for the club (that Edwards is back).”
Klopp added: “The club is in a simply exact place. Of course, people will only measure that at the give up of the season when they have a seem at what we simply achieved, but that’s not that vital for the future – what we performed this season is for nowWhat’s vital for the future is how top is the team, how properly are the players, how exact is the structure, how correct is the organisation. That’s where my optimism comes from. That’s why I assume it’s a as a substitute exact moment to be with LFC. That’s how it is and I’m actually comfortable about that.”
Klopp is insistent he will honour his choice to step down as Reds manager in the summer, notwithstanding his team nonetheless in the hunt for an exceptional trophy quadruple, which continues on Thursday when they entertain Sparta Prague in their Europa League round of 16 2d leg having won 5-1 in Czechia ultimate week.
And requested if Edwards tried to persuade him to stay, Klopp said: “No, because, and it is very necessary in his job, he is no longer dumb. That used to be no longer a difficulty to talk about. Can you imagine if I changed my thought now? Can you? Of path not. It would be like when I said I’d never ever (move to) any other membership in England and next 12 months I signed for our neighbours or a club who wishes a coach.
“I do not say these things besides questioning about them before. It would imply I realize only now how terrific this club is – I have regarded about it all the time. For me it is the great membership in the world and I am nevertheless leaving anyway. That’s what I’ve been making an attempt to explain. I just choose this membership to do as well as one way or the other possible, and I’m simply positive (that can happen) if we create a desirable foundation with the right human beings in cost and Michael is a top choice.”
