Jurgen Klopp has explained why he signed a new contract as Liverpool manager, stating it was necessary in order to facilitate a rebuild.
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Liverpool’s iconic, Premier League winning manager has opened up on the club’s recent stutters and explained his thoughts on the ongoing rebuild. He explained his part in that process, particularly how signing a new deal was “necessary” in getting the challenge underway.
“I’m not saying it’s the biggest challenge, but it’s a challenge, and it was one of the main reasons why I signed a new contract because I knew it’s necessary,” explained Klopp on BT Sport podcast Mike Calvin’s Football People, via The Independent. He added: “It will not go overnight, and imagine the situation now with another coach in the chair. I would be somewhere on holiday and everybody would shout my name ‘with him it would not have happened!’ I’m obviously not a miracle worker.
“That’s why it’s good how it is, because all the problems you have in a transition time period, we have an awful lot of injuries, and that makes life really complicated. I have no problem with that because I see obviously… I know the majority of the outside world is just interested in the short term but we have to be long-term focused as well, and that’s what we are.”
