Jurgen Klopp hints he may NEVER return to management as former Liverpool boss admits ‘I no longer had a normal life'
Klopp spoke to two Premier League bosses about his time away from the dugout
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JURGEN KLOPP has suggested his managerial career might be over after admitting he doesn't want that life "anymore".
The German coach quit Liverpool at the end of last season after nine years in charge of the Anfield outfit.
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Jurgen Klopp has hinted he may never manage another football team
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Klopp admits he does not miss his old role
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Having now had more than a year to reflect on his career options, Klopp, 58, candidly revealed he believes his time in the dugout could be over.
Speaking to German outlet, Welt, the former Borussia Dortmund boss admitted life as a football coach took him "too far away from a normal life".
He recalled how he lost 16 kilos between his time leaving Borussia Dortmund and joining Liverpool, thanks to being on top of his diet and exercising - something he couldn't do when mulling over tactics.
Klopp said: "I was in a tunnel, but never with myself. Now I pay more attention to myself.
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"As silly as it sounds, I stopped doing what I always wanted to do.
"But it took me too far away from normal life – and ultimately, I no longer had a normal life.
"Whatever normal life is: my car knew three ways: to the stadium, to the training ground, and home."
Klopp explained how while he had plenty of visitors in Liverpool, he barely had any time for them - referencing how he had been to two weddings in the last four months as opposed to none in 23 years before that.
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Following his Liverpool exit, Klopp has found new roles as Red Bull's Head of Global Soccer and in the latest Hotel: Trivago, advertisements.
But the Premier League and Champions League winner hasn't been short of top clubs wanting to add him to their ranks, with Bayern Munich inquiring over his availability.
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However, despite chats with Jose Mourinho and Roy Hodgson about coaching, his gut feeling is that while he loved his job, he doesn't miss it.
Asked about his links to Bayern, Klopp said: "But I don't want that anymore. I have a job now that fulfills me and is also intense.
"I don't sleep in the morning and I don't go to bed later at night, but I can organise my work much better.
"My wife, for example, is really happy with it because we can plan things much better that we couldn't before...
"Of course I enjoyed it too. Some days I couldn't believe my luck. Just look where I came from - and then I made it to Liverpool FC, and it worked out pretty well there.
"If I were to go back to coaching somewhere, it would all start again. I'm me! I can't just take over and coach.
"Then I'd be completely involved everywhere again. And I just don't see that happening anymore."
On his chats with Hodgson and Mourinho, he continued: "He (Hodgson) came up to me and asked how I was. In the same breath he said to me: 'I miss it.'
"And I was like: 'What?' Roy is 77 years old - and he wants to be a coach again. Unbelievable!
"When we played against Crystal Palace with Liverpool, I always asked him whether his apartment was damp or why he was standing on the pitch now.
"But Jose Mourinho also said to me: 'This is not the end.' There are those coaches who always want to do that. I loved being a coach, but I was never addicted."
Klopp also ruled himself out of taking a job at one of the Red Bull teams.
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