Should Brendan Rodgers be worried or not?
Jurgen Klopp is probably the most in-demand football manager currently out of work. The former Borussia Dortmund boss stepped down from his role this summer, after seven years with the German club.
Klopp won two Bundesliga titles, and led Dortmund to the 2012 Champions League final, whilst winning an army of admirers for his team’s rapid attacking style.
Liverpool fans in particular have been very vocal about their fondness for the charismatic German. Many have openly stated that they’d love him to replace Rodgers at the earliest opportunity.
However, they may not know how to feel about Klopp’s biggest hint yet about where exactly he will return to management.
“I’m really very relaxed,” Klopp said at the International Radio Exhibition (IFA) in Berlin.
“But only because I know that is how it goes sometimes. I’ll be back to train a team.”
“It must be somewhere in the world that is not an absolute top club, there are other good projects that are exciting who need help.”
So when Klopp says “not an absolute top club”, does that include Liverpool or not? In terms of prestige, history and worldwide support, perhaps so. But on current standing and form, maybe not…
H/T Squawka.
