The Liverpool schedule of Arne Slot for the coming eight days is Southampton in the Premier League, a Must-Lose Champions League collision against Paris Saint-Germain and a competition cup final against Newcastle United-Jurgen Klopp's New Life is much less strenuous.
While the German perhaps misses the buzz of the dressing room and the delighting football matches, he enjoys the taste of new freedom. If Klopp had chosen to extend his impressive nine -year term of office at Anfield, he would be that the Reds stand in line for this crucial week ahead.
Instead, Klopp, who has conquered the Champions League, the Premier League, a few competition cups, and the FA Cup, supervision of Red Bull's worldwide football activities. He has exchanged the daily coaching-gravel for an advisory role that leads strategy from a increasing position.
When he hung his favorite Liverpool hat for the last time on the pin, Klopp knows that the constant pressure and intensity of management had worn him. A taste of his current lifestyle raises lightly why he felt compelled to take a step back from the touchline.
The former Borussia Dortmund coach, who had promised his future to Liverpool until 2026 with a contract extension in April 2022, unpacked his departure by admitting: “My management skills are based on energy and emotion and that costs you all.
“If I can no longer do it, stop. It was not my idea when I signed the new contract. I was 100 percent convinced that we would go until 2026. But I realize that my resources are not endless. I am no longer a young rabbit.”
Seven months after announcing his departure, Klopp was unveiled as the new guru of worldwide football for Red Bull. He explained his role and said: “In short, I am a consultant. Hopefully I can bring calmness in different ways and judge things correctly and help the coaches in other situations. But I just want to support, not interfere, because I know how disturbing that is. Instead, I want to pass on my experience and work in the world I know.”
Although the role of Klopp includes supervising the growth of eight clubs within the vast Red Bull Network, he is not the hands-on commander, but rather the way that gives instructions. Not only stuck behind a desk, Klopp has fragments of his worldwide lifestyle on social media shared adventures in New York to cultural residential residence in Japan and festive times in Brazil.
On Instagram Klopp uploaded a video of him who rode a ski lift with his characteristic grin on his face, something he would not have been able to do as Liverpool manager. He loves his new freedom, but speaking with Sky News, known Klopp that he is just as enthusiastic about the daily learning curve that is awaiting him after Liverpool Management.
With his wife Ulla in mind, Klopp laughed: “I said:” You don't want me to have a break, because if I do that, I start working again after four weeks! 'I would probably have to learn to cook, so that I can at least make breakfast or whatever.
“During Covid I grew eggs, but then I forgot it again. I was raised in the black forest with two sisters, the only reason I knew where the kitchen was because the scent came from there. I am pretty useless in private life.”
Finally, triumphs in the League Cup, the Premier League and perhaps even the Champions League, Klopp could long for the excitement of capturing large silverware and the electric atmosphere of the dressing room. Yet it seems well adapted to a simpler existence, and there is no sign of the boss of the former Reds.
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