Ex-Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says ‘I never felt like a world-class coach’
Despite leaving the club as one of the most highly regarded coaches in football, the German says he has never seen himself among game’s best
Despite leaving Liverpool as one of the most highly regarded coaches in world football in 2024, Jurgen Klopp said he never thought of himself as among the game’s best.
“I never considered myself a world-class coach,” Klopp said in an interview in Leipzig, Germany, “because I still had so many questions when I finished.
“I was, like, ‘how can I be world-class with these questions still?’”
After starting out at German club Mainz, where he took the club to the top flight for the first time, Klopp moved to Borussia Dortmund, where he won two Bundesliga titles and reached the 2013 Champions League final.
After signing with Liverpool in 2015, Klopp’s Reds won every trophy on offer, including the Champions League and Premier League.
In his new role as Red Bull’s global head of football, where he oversees a multi-club structure with teams including RB Leipzig, New York Red Bulls and Paris FC, Klopp said that he wanted to help coaches answer those questions.