Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp, 56, will leave the club at the end of the season after nine years at Anfield, it was announced on Friday, January 26.

"I will leave the club at the end of the season. I can understand that it's a shock for a lot of people in this moment when you hear it first time, but obviously I can explain it, or at least try to explain it," the German football manager widely regarded as one of the best football managers in the world said in a video statement released by the club.

"I love absolutely everything about this club. I love everything about this city, I love everything about our supporters, I love the team, I love the staff, I love everything. That I still take this decision probably will, well shows you that I'm convinced it is the one I have to take. It is that I'm... How can I say this... I'm running out of energy.

"I have no problem now, obviously. I think I know it already for longer that I will have to announce that at one point. But I'm absolutely fine now, but I know that I cannot do the job again and again and again and again. And after all the years we had together and after all the time we spent together and all the things we went through together, the respect grew for you, the love grew for you, and the least thing I owe you is the truth, and that's the truth."

Klopp helped Liverpool to break their 30-year wait for a Premier League title, winning the competition in 2020, as well as lifting the Champions League in 2019, and the FA Cup and Carabao Cup in 2022.