“German coach Klopp? Not in this life”

Guido Schäferformer football player, journalist and friend of Jurgen Kloppsaid in an interview with ‘Sport1’ that the German will never be a German coach and he doesn’t care what people think of him because he left the bench and signed with the Austrian brand Red Bull at the beginning of last October. He also made it clear that he is the perfect person for the upcoming project.

Schäfer met him three days ago, when he was officially presented in Salzburg as the brand’s ‘global director of football’. “I saw him very relaxed, that’s the good Jürgen. I asked him if he was just sipping lettuce leaves and drinking electrolytes, because he lost a lot of weight. He used to be fatter, I’ve never seen him so empty. he now. He told me that he works out every day and is ready for big challenges.

“Klopp wants to get off this hamster wheel, he no longer wants to prepare or follow up on matches. He wants to get off the daily life of being a football coach and this project is perfect for what he’s looking for,” he said before adding: “Klopp “He can burn wet towels, that’s his strong point. Someone once said that if there are people in a bad mood in a room and Klopp walks in, everyone ends up being in a very good mood.” “With their passion and good decisions when looking for talent, they can deceive Bayern and maybe make RB Lepizig champions.”

Asked if Schäfer did not think his public image was affected by this commitment, he replied: “Klopp doesn’t care about that. He has been working for others for 23 or 24 years in a row and has to attend so many meetings, not all of them are his height, attending hundreds of thousands of press conferences and answering stupid questions from people like me… Now he is his own boss. Jürgen is a great person, passionate he in football, but he also knows that without money it doesn’t work if you have a little money – and obviously he has now – and then he made the right decisions with his colleagues like Mario Gómez, Marco Rose or Sandro Schwarz, then maybe good things happen.

As for whether he believes Klopp could be Germany’s coach one day, he is clear: “No, never. Not in this lifetime. Furthermore, Julian (Nagelsmann) is fine for the bench in Germany. When Jürgen Klopp resigned, it was very clear to me that he would never again “I wouldn’t be a coach anywhere again. He doesn’t want to do that anymore, Julian can rest assured.”