{"id":94551,"date":"2025-09-30T11:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/94551\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:21:10","slug":"liverpool-legend-klopp-claims-slot-decision-risks-exposing-reds-for-one-key-reason-amid-fresh-return-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/94551\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool legend Klopp claims Slot decision &#8216;risks exposing&#8217; Reds for one key reason amid fresh return verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool legend Jurgen Klopp thinks his former club \u201crisks being exposed\u201d under Arne Slot, while he has commented on a potential return to management.<\/p>\n<p>Klopp left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/liverpool\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Liverpool<\/strong> <\/a>at the end of the 2023\/24 campaign as he felt he needed a break from management and football generally after having long spells at Anfield and Borussia Dortmund.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/jurgen-klopp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Klopp<\/strong> <\/a>suggested that he might never manage again, although he returned to football at the start of 2025 as the Global Head of Football at Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6669213\/2025\/09\/30\/jurgen-klopp-liverpool-interview-red-bull\/?source=twitteruk\" target=\"_blank\">Klopp has had a detailed interview with The Athletic, <\/a>in which he has reiterated that he currently cannot see himself returning to management.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot. At. All,\u201d Klopp responded when asked whether he began to miss management at the start of last season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/champions-league-preview-maresca-mourinho-barcelona-psg-konate-osimhen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big Midweek: Maresca v Mourinho, Barcelona v PSG, Konate v Osimhen and batsh*t Frankfurt<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was super happy with the way Liverpool performed. I watched some games. But it is not like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s Saturday!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know when games started. I was just out. I played sports. We enjoyed life, spent time with the grandkids, completely normal stuff, knowing I will work again. But knowing as well, that I don\u2019t want to work as a coach anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He has previously suggested that he may never manage again and he still feels this is the case. He added: \u201cThat\u2019s what I think.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you don\u2019t know. I\u2019m 58. If I started again at 65, everybody will say, \u2018You said you\u2019ll never do it again!\u2019 Er, sorry, I thought 100 per cent (when I said it)! That is what I think now. I don\u2019t miss anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/arsenal-favourites-van-dijk-injury-tip-balance-mailbox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal favourites? Only a Van Dijk injury would tip that balance<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-arsenal-ferdinand-reveals-favourite-win-premier-league\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool or Arsenal? Ferdinand reveals \u2018favourite\u2019 to win Premier League amid two reasons for verdict<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-carragher-slams-five-players-cardinal-sin-crystal-palace\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Carragher slams five Liverpool players for committing the \u2018cardinal sin\u2019 in Crystal Palace loss<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Klopp has also commented on the current state of the Premier League, praising two managers for \u201cdoing miracles\u201d, while Liverpool \u201crisk being exposed\u201d under Slot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow, [Glasner at Crystal Palace and Iraola at AFC Bournemouth] are doing miracles,\u201d Klopp added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of things change. I don\u2019t have an opinion about that, really. The football I watch is mainly Red Bull teams. Do I sit there and say, \u2018What is football? How is it developing right now?\u2019 That\u2019s not really what I\u2019m doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCity is on the way back, they change a little bit. Managers need that as well\u2026 a new way of looking at things to keep it fresh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiverpool is playing a specific (style), so really, really good. Very offensive orientated. Do they take the risk a little bit of being exposed? Different ways to go, let me say it like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not the pope of football who tells people what to do. At least not outside the Red Bull world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool legend Jurgen Klopp thinks his former club \u201crisks being exposed\u201d under Arne Slot, while he has commented&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,794,19,17,61099,1009,5,795,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-94551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-home-page","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jurgen-klopp","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-premier-league","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}