ISMANING, Germany (AP) — Former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has dismissed suggestions that he could take over as “nonsense”. real madrid He will take over as manager next season, but said he has not heard from the Spanish club.
Klopp has not coached since taking over. A shocking departure He moved from Liverpool in 2024, at which point he said he was “running out of energy”. He remained in the game as part of the Red Bull group. Head of World Soccerhas managed clubs such as Leipzig, Salzburg and New York Red Bulls.
In televised comments, Klopp said of speculation about his relationship with Real Madrid: “It’s all nonsense. They’ve never called me. They’ve never called me. And my agent is over there. You can ask him too, but they haven’t called him either.”
He was speaking at Monday’s event as a World Cup television pundit.
Klopp did not rule out the possibility of returning to coaching at some point, but said he was not considering a job in Germany in case manager Julian Nagelsmann leaves after the World Cup.
“At the moment we are obviously not thinking about it at all. Fortunately there is no reason to do so,” he said in comments carried by German news agency dpa.
Last month, Red Bull said The company said it was “very satisfied” with Klopp’s work after an Austrian newspaper reported that his role was being called into question because the drinks giant’s club had not made enough progress in the year since he took over.
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