Why did Klopp quit? Klopp explained that after much soul-searching he had come to the conclusion this would be the final season of his Anfield reign. His mind was made up — he would step down in May. He felt he simply didn’t have the energy to carry on. He was jaded and didn’t want to do the job on “three wheels”. Jurgen Klopp addresses the media after revealing in a shock announcement that he will be leaving Liverpool at the end of the current season after nine years at the club. The German has overseen a period of great success at Anfield including winning both the Premier League and Champions League, as well as both domestic cups, the Community Shield, European Super Cup and Club World Cup.Has certainly been an emotional few hours for Liverpool fans, but Klopp can’t let emotion distract him with four months left of the season and four major trophies up for grabs. Who is to say Liverpool can’t win the lot? They’ll certainly not think it is beyond the club’s burgeoning talent pool or their inspirational manager, an “honorary Scouser” in his own words, who will not be managing another English club in the years ahead. The news will hit Liverpool fans hard, but it has also sent reverberations around the Premier League. Guardiola and Klopp’s dugout joust has proved to be the defining rivalry of its time in English football. In 2018, Liverpool dumped City out of the Champions League en route to a final defeat against Real Madrid in Kyiv. They also lost to Los Blancos in the 2022 final, but Klopp made sure of Liverpool’s sixth European crown when they defeated Tottenham 2-0 at Madrid’s Wanda Metropolitano Stadium in 2019. That success facilitated glory in the 2019 editions of the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup. Liverpool also won the domestic knockout double of the Carabao Cup and FA Cup in 2020/21. Getty Images Liverpool remain in contention in those tournaments this time around after reaching the Carabao Cup final with a 3-2 aggregate win over Fulham, while an exciting new team featuring the likes of Alexis Mac Allister, Dominik Szoboszlai, Curtis Jones, Darwin Nunez and a rejuvenated Trent Alexander-Arnold has hinted at a new era of success. It means Klopp’s decision to step down comes as a huge bombshell. Having joined the club in October 2015, he offered a clear explanation for his pending departure when speaking to Liverpool’s in-house media team on 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 read it for the first time,” he said. “Obviously I can explain it or at least try to explain it. 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 shows you that I’m convinced it’s the one I have to take. It is that I’m…how can I say… I’m running out of energy. “I have no problem now. I think I know it already for longer that I will have to announce it at one point. But I’m absolutely fine now, but I also know that I cannot do the job again and again and again and again. “After all the years we had together and all the time we spent together, all the things we went through together, the respect grew for you and the love grew for you. The least I owe you is the truth. And that’s the truth.”