Former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has issued an emphatic response to becoming the next Germany manager.
The 57-year-old has been frequently linked with the national team role for a number of years but they have since intensified after he stepped away from his role at Anfield.
Klopp brought down the curtain on his Reds career in May after almost nine years, where he won every domestic honour in England – including the Premier League – as well as the Champions League.
Germany’s struggles at recent tournaments have turned the heat up on those in the dugout, with many tipping and expressing a desire to install Klopp in the country’s most coveted sporting position.
Former RB Leipzig and Bayern Munich head coach, Julian Nagelsmann, is currently in situ and is contracted until the 2026 World Cup in the USA and Mexico.
On Tuesday, as Klopp received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Bellvue Palace in Berlin, he poured cold water on the claims.
Everyone hopes that Julian Nagelsmann will do this for much, much longer than 2026,” he said via Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “I would be reluctant to talk about football today because there is nothing to say.
Rudi Völler is a very nice guy. He was put in the situation where he had to talk about it.”It comes after Voller, the director of the German national team, said: “I don’t know what Jürgen would like to do again.
But if Julian Nagelsmann were to decide at some point that he would rather coach a top club in Europe or Germany again – of course, then there is no way around Jürgen Klopp if he wants to.
