Liverpool (AFP)
Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp said that the return of Michael Edwards as executive director of the Fenway Sports Group, which owns the club, will not have any impact on his decision to leave Anfield at the end of the season.
Klopp spoke to Edwards, with whom he had a successful relationship as sporting director of the club until his departure in 2022, but that will not lead to any change in the position of the coach who won the English Premier League title in 2020.
Edwards, who spent more than ten years at Anfield, held several positions, and the Fenway Group assigned him a new position to supervise the expected transitional phase at the club following Klopp’s departure.
Klopp explained whether Edwards asked him to reverse his decision: “No, because it is important in his job. He is not stupid.”
He added, “This was not a topic to talk about. Can you imagine me reversing my decision?” Can you? of course not”.
He said, “It would be as if I said I would not move to any other club in England, and next year I signed with a neighboring club or with a club that needed a coach.”
Klopp, who described Edwards as “the best option,” said that he thought a lot about his decision to resign from his position as Reds coach before making it.
He continued, “I don't say these things without thinking about them before. This means that I only now realize how great this club is – I knew that all along.”
He explained, “For me, it is the best club in the world and I am still in the process of leaving anyway. This is what I was trying to explain.”
Klopp, 56 years old, spoke on the eve of the second leg of the Europa League quarter-final against Sparta Prague, after winning the first leg with a crushing score of 5-1.
After winning the English League Cup, Liverpool has a historic opportunity to win four titles this season, as it is waging a tough battle for the local league title, and will face Manchester United in the quarter-finals of the English Cup on Sunday, and is within a whisker of reaching the quarter-finals of the continental competition.
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