Jürgen Klopp rules himself out of becoming new England manager
German was linked with replacing Gareth Southgate‘It would be the biggest loss of face in football,’ he insists
Jürgen Klopp has ruled himself out of the race to replace Gareth Southgate as England manager, claiming it would constitute the “biggest loss of face in the history of football” were he to take the job so soon after leaving Liverpool in order to have a break from the sport.
Klopp has been linked with the national team post vacated by Southgate in the wake of England’s Euro 2024 final defeat by Spain, alongside Eddie Howe, Graham Potter and Mauricio Pochettino, among others. But the German, who departed Liverpool at the end of last season after a hugely successful nine-year spell at Anfield because he was “running out of energy”, has now moved to distance himself from such speculation.
