🎥 How keen is he? Klopp reacts to Germany job question

🎥 How keen is he? Klopp reacts to Germany job question Following Julian Nagelsmann’s resignation, football Germany is asking whether the top candidate to succeed him, Jürgen Klopp, is actually considering the job as national team coach. What still needs to happen for that and whether there could be obstacles. Klopp spoke openly in an interview with MagentaTV.  The interview with Jürgen Klopp in full Jürgen Klopp on whether there have already been talks with the DFB: “Yes, I can confirm that, but I’d like to take a little step back and explain the whole situation. It wasn’t that long ago that we were standing behind the goal during the penalty shootout (editor’s note: against Paraguay), and when Manuel Neuer saved the penalty, we all celebrated like mad and were thrilled and fairly sure we were going to pull it off now because the momentum was on our side. Then about three minutes later, we had to realize that wasn’t the case after all. After that, things picked up speed pretty quickly. I only want to express that I’m fully aware of how closely joy and despair are linked in football. If we had scored the next penalty and Paraguay hadn’t, we wouldn’t be standing here today. But things are the way they are now. Julian has resigned, and the DFB is working on a successor, and in the course of those considerations they approached me.” These talks are taking place. What is still missing for an agreement? Jürgen Klopp: “Time. The situation is that I have an existing contract with Red Bull. I’ve said several times how much I enjoy this job. As a person, I’m normally someone who really likes to honor contracts. But I’ve also said that I’m interested in taking part in the talks, because of course they first have to happen. They will have to be intensive talks, because the problems we currently have are obviously not down to Julian Nagelsmann as a person. Julian is an exceptional coach, and he’ll get to prove that many more times in his career. So we simply have to wait and see how the talks develop to some extent. Those are one set of talks, and of course I also have to have the other talks with my employer, with Oliver Mintzlaff. Because I know that German football is also close to his heart, and accordingly he is very open to these talks. But they still have to be held.” “In the best-case scenario, there are only winners at the end of a story like this” What is the status of these talks – are there any obstacles? Jürgen Klopp: “It’s difficult to get ahead of talks, but of course we’ve already touched on certain things, and accordingly I’m not expecting that. In the best-case scenario, there are only winners at the end of a story like this. That you can simply say, okay, Red Bull has to be able to come out of this situation properly. I’ve already been there for 19 months, and the public may still be wondering to this day what exactly I do there. But it has been a very intense time. I’ve traveled all over the world, learned an endless amount, gained a lot of experience, and we’ve changed a great many things. And it’s not that easy to simply step away from that; it has to be clarified that things can continue afterward as well.” Is the timing good for Jürgen Klopp to become national team coach now? Jürgen Klopp: “Even now it isn’t perfect. Because I am, after all, under contract with Red Bull. But it’s still better than it has ever been. And from my side, and on top of that, I stopped in Liverpool about two years ago and said that I lacked the energy for another job or for another year with Liverpool. By now, I’ve more than recharged my batteries. So I’m ready, I am. But again, it’s all a bit much. I just wanted to use today as an opportunity to say that quite a lot is being written out there, and sometimes it’s okay to say something about it. How does Klopp assess the potential of German football? Jürgen Klopp: “Well, I think, if you like, it’s still a bit of an unknown quantity. It’s absolutely clear, as I already said, that it’s not just down to the head coach, definitely not. German football is naturally now at a turning point. We now have to change things fundamentally. Whether that ends up being me or whoever it may be doesn’t change the fact that changes are necessary.” As a possible future national team coach, what is he taking from his work now as a MagentaTV pundit? Jürgen Klopp: “Well, it certainly doesn’t make you any stupider, especially not in my line of work. We’ve seen incredibly good football, and we’ve also seen less good football. But it was always football, and there are always reasons for the performance you see. Sorry. And of course right now it’s like further training. So however things continue for me: I certainly won’t be any more foolish after this World Cup. I’ll have learned quite a bit again, and that is of course also necessary.” This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.