Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool return "theoretically possible" in a few years

Jurgen Klopp has said “theoretically it’s possible” he could return to Liverpool, but he currently isn’t missing the job.

Upon leaving Liverpool, Klopp said that he would definitely “never, ever manage a different club in England than Liverpool.”

He is still sticking to that and despite insisting he isn’t interested in becoming a manager again any time soon, the German has left the door slightly ajar to a return.

“I said I will never coach a different team in England again, that means if it’s Liverpool, yeah. Theoretically it’s possible,” Klopp told The Diary of a CEO podcast.

Asked what it would take for him to return, the current Head of Global Soccer at Red Bull said: “I don’t know exactly.

“I love what I do right now. I don’t miss coaching, I don’t. I do coach now but just different, not players, and I don’t miss it.

“I don’t miss standing in the rain, two-and-a-half, three hours. I don’t miss going to press conferences three times a week, having 10 or 12 interviews a week. I don’t miss that, I don’t.

“I don’t miss being in the dressing room, like in the sense that I didn’t have it often enough.

“I coached 1,080 something games so I was in a dressing room very, very often, and I don’t want to die in a dressing room just because it’s so nice – it smells!

“But there might be something.

“I’m 58, that’s from your perspective old. From other perspective, from the other side, it’s not that old. That means I could make the decision in a few years. I don’t know.

“Do I have to make the decision today? I will not coach again, but thank God I don’t have to do that. I can just see what the future brings.

“But now I’m involved in a project I really love, and I love the people I’m working together with and the clubs we are responsible for and the countries the clubs are in.

“So I like doing what I’m doing right now and in my mind, only if I’m focused 100 percent, I can do it really good and that’s what I always want to do.”

What does Jurgen Klopp miss about managing Liverpool?

Klopp has consistently said he left Liverpool because he was running out of energy and couldn’t give the job 100 percent.

His reasons remained the same in this most recent interview and he doesn’t appear to be yearning a return to managerial life.

“Sometimes people, Virgil’s (Van Dijk) laugh in my ear for example,” Klopp said when asked what he misses about the job.

“Do I miss it in general with football players?

“Not right now, it’s not like that, but then there is not a lot to be honest which I miss because I’m still in the business I know most about. So the football part I don’t miss because I have it.

“And the other thing is I don’t have to be outside.

“I’m not the guy in the chair before a game and stuff like this. Honestly, that’s the best example. I don’t miss anything, that’s how it is.”

Based on the former boss’ words, Liverpool supporters shouldn’t be expecting him to return but it is interesting that he refused to rule it out all together.

It is fair to say, however, that Liverpool aren’t in his plans at the moment.

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