{"id":638415,"date":"2025-12-17T15:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/638415\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:54:13","slug":"jurgen-klopp-tipped-to-join-liverpool-rivals-with-loads-of-money-to-spend-football-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/638415\/","title":{"rendered":"Jurgen Klopp tipped to join Liverpool rivals with &#8216;loads of money&#8217; to spend | Football | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Jurgen Klopp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/jurgen-klopp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jurgen Klopp<\/a> has been linked with a surprise <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Premier League\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/premier-league\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> return, with <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Tottenham Hotspur FC\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/tottenham-hotspur-fc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tottenham<\/a> urged to pursue the former <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Liverpool FC\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/liverpool-fc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a> boss by the club&#8217;s former chairman <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Alan Sugar, Lord Sugar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/lord-alan-sugar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lord Alan Sugar<\/a>. Klopp has remained out of management since his emotional farewell to Anfield at the end of the 2023\/24 season, after almost nine years transforming the Merseyside giants. He has since accepted a role as Red Bull&#8217;s head of global football, though speculation about a managerial comeback refuses to subside.<\/p>\n<p>Recent reports have connected him with the Real Madrid job as Xabi Alonso endures a challenging period at the Bernabeu, but now an unexpected return to England has been suggested. Lord Sugar has urged Spurs to target Klopp as their next boss, with current manager <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Thomas Frank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/thomas-frank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Frank<\/a> facing growing pressure following an erratic start to the season.<\/p>\n<p>The north Londoners find themselves stuck in 11th position in the Premier League table after Sunday&#8217;s crushing defeat at Nottingham Forest. It marked their sixth top-flight loss already this term and has intensified doubts over Frank&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to X (formerly Twitter) following the match, Lord Sugar suggested the club should launch an ambitious bid to secure Klopp as the Dane&#8217;s replacement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the massive fortune of the Lewis family it would be a win-win situation if they hired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/jurgen-klopp\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jurgen Klopp<\/a> in January,&#8221; wrote Sugar. &#8220;Loads of money for players and a great manager. Who agrees?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yet, it seems Klopp himself might not concur. The 58-year-old has shown little desire to return to the dugout, although he hasn&#8217;t completely ruled out the idea.<\/p>\n<p>One thing he has unequivocally dismissed is the prospect of managing another English top-flight team apart from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/liverpool-fc\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you ask me, &#8216;Will you ever work as a manager again?&#8217; I would say now no,&#8221; Klopp stated following his decision to leave Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I don&#8217;t know obviously how that will feel because I never had the situation. What I know definitely \u2013 I will never, ever manage a different club in England than Liverpool, 100 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not possible. My love for this club, my respect for the people is too big. I couldn&#8217;t. I couldn&#8217;t for a second think about it. There&#8217;s no chance.<\/p>\n<p>This is part of my life, we are part of the family, we feel home here. There&#8217;s no chance to do that. But all the rest, will I ever work again? Of course, I know myself, I cannot just sit around.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jurgen Klopp has been linked with a surprise Premier League return, with Tottenham urged to pursue the former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[4093,748,393,12031,4884,4198,179,763,1126,1376,196723,101,2358,23278,1368,201,10652,68724,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-638415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-alan-sugar","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-football-section","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-jurgen-klopp","14":"tag-liverpool","15":"tag-liverpool-fc","16":"tag-liverpool-news","17":"tag-lord-alan-sugar","18":"tag-lord-sugar","19":"tag-premier-league","20":"tag-spurs","21":"tag-spurs-news","22":"tag-tottenham","23":"tag-tottenham-hotspur","24":"tag-tottenham-hotspur-fc","25":"tag-tottenham-news","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115735721809165400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}