The Agenda: Jurgen Klopp's retirement plan hint and the parallels with Pep Guardiola

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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It doesn't bear thinking about - life after Jurgen Klopp. But the man who has masterminded Liverpool's return to the summit of European football has cast doubt over whether he will remain at Anfield beyond his current contract, which expires in 2022. The club would like Klopp to stay longer than that but so far - publicly at least - the 52-year-old has been reluctant to commit his future beyond three summers' time. And the Champions League-winning boss this week even admitted, when accepting the coach of the year award from Sport Bild in his native Germany, that he could retire in 'two or three years time'. So little wonder, then, the latest episode of The Agenda is all about the Reds manager. Joe Rimmer and Theo Squires wonder whether Klopp's seven-year itch will continue or whether he can be convinced to build a Alex Ferguson-style dynasty with the Reds. Our boys also discuss the parallels between Klopp's own future and that of his greatest rival, just where he could go next, and just who could replace the great man if he does leave. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.
0:09.0	Good morning and welcome to the Liverpool agenda.
0:11.0	Joe Rimmer, Theo Squires,, similar shirts and we're here to talk
0:14.2	about Yeagenkop's retirement plan.
0:16.7	It turns out that Yeagen has been speaking at an award's due in Germany this week and he's hinted
0:21.9	that he could retire in about three years when his contract expires.
0:25.1	So they are, are you worried?
0:27.5	Are you nervous?
0:28.1	Could Yeergen clock be leaving Liverpool?
0:30.5	Perhaps sooner than we think?
0:31.5	Or is this what we expected all along? Is it really sooner than we think? is this what we expected all along?
0:33.0	Is it really sooner than we think? I think he's hinted all along that he probably is going to consider
0:37.6	leaving at the end of his current deal. With Mainz and Dortmund he's done seven years
0:42.0	and then moved on.
0:43.0	Um, 22, that's the end of his Coron track. That would be seven years.
0:46.8	And he's always wanted that gap from football, that break.
0:50.4	I think joining Liverpool, he interrupted his sabbatical to come to the club and it's
0:54.6	at the moment you just enjoying the ride aren't you as a Liverpool fan top of the league
0:58.0	champions of Europe enjoy them whilst you can maybe they'll be able to persuade him otherwise. Like I don't think
1:03.9	Yurgenclop's going to want to leave the club having not won a Premier League title, but he's got that
1:07.6	Champions League in the locker now. It depends what he feels with the squad. Like we've seen before,
1:11.6	face Alex Ferguson for example he wanted to
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