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Liverpool boss Klopp: I won't be doing this at 70

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp can't see himself working in management into his 70s.

Liverpool's first home game after the restart was against Crystal Palace and Roy Hodgson, who turns 73 next month.

“I don't see me doing that at that age," Klopp told the Mirror. “When I became a manager [aged 33], I thought … 'right, now 25 power years start.

“I was seven and a half years at Mainz, seven at Dortmund and in 2024 (when his current contract at Liverpool ends) it will be 23 and half.

“I have no plans beyond that."

Klopp does not exactly have the rest of his managerial career mapped out but he can visualise its ending.

He said, “When I was a professional football player, I studied at university.

"I had a really busy life. I was a young father. I got up really early, took care of my wife - my former wife - who was also working at that time, took care of my little boy.

"Then I went to university and from university, I went to training and then I had a job at night in a bar.

“I finished at university, became a sports scientist and started doing other training programmes, thinking what I could do after my playing career because the money we earned was not enough.

“Then I became a manager and it was the most busy time of my life because the jobs that would now be done by 25 people, I did them myself. I was the analyst, I was the scouting department, I was everything.

“Then, I went to Dortmund and gave a lot of the jobs to assistant but I had to do the public things and the other stuff. And now, of course, incredibly busy at Liverpool.

“I love it but what I want say is that I will not miss that."

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