{"id":492212,"date":"2026-03-24T07:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492212\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T07:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:54:09","slug":"jurgen-klopp-says-real-madrid-talk-is-nonsense-but-he-may-coach-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492212\/","title":{"rendered":"Jurgen Klopp says Real Madrid talk is ‘nonsense’ but he may coach again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says speculation he will return to management with Real Madrid this summer is “nonsense”.<\/p>\n

The 58-year-old has been linked, external<\/a> with a move to replace Alvaro Arbeloa at the end of the season.<\/p>\n

Klopp left Anfield<\/a> at the end of the 2023-24 season and has not coached since – taking up a role as head of global football with Red Bull.<\/p>\n

He denied any talks with Real but says he might coach again.<\/p>\n

The German told reporters at the Magenta TV World Cup team presentation in Munich: “If Real Madrid had phoned, we would have heard about it by now.<\/p>\n

“But that’s all nonsense. They haven’t called even once, not once. My agent is there, you can ask him. They haven’t called him either.<\/p>\n

“Right now I’m not thinking about that, luckily there’s no reason to.<\/p>\n

“For my age I’m quite advanced in life, but as a coach I’m not completely finished. I haven’t reached retirement age.<\/p>\n

“Who knows what will happen in the coming years? But there’s nothing planned.”<\/p>\n

Klopp was appointed Liverpool boss in October 2015 and his contract was due to run until 2026.<\/p>\n

However, he made a shock announcement in January 2024 he would step down at the end of the 2023-24 campaign after “running out of energy”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Klopp won the Champions League in 2019 before leading Liverpool to their first league title in 30 years in 2019-20. <\/p>\n

During his tenure he also lifted the FA Cup, two League Cups, the Uefa Super Cup and the Fifa Club World Cup.<\/p>\n

Despite not ruling out a return to coaching one day, the German made it clear in his statement two years ago he would not coach another Premier League side.<\/p>\n

“What I know definitely is that I will never, ever manage a different club in England than Liverpool, 100%. That’s not possible,” he added.<\/p>\n

Klopp previously managed in Germany with Mainz 05 and Borussia Dortmund, where he won back-to-back Bundesliga titles in 2011 and 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says speculation he will return to management with Real Madrid this summer is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-492212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}