Klopp explains early decision to leave Liverpool

After losing a thriller in the FA Cup, Jurgen Klopp revealed one of the reasons behind his departure.

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00:00 Is that why you're leaving, or is that something that drags you in,

00:06 that's part of the addiction of being a manager?

00:09 Neither, no. Nothing to do with that.

00:12 But you should watch me, if you see me watching football for a team I like,

00:16 quite emotional as well, so you can have that as well, without being in the dog-out.

00:22 Didn't think about that, it's out of things,

00:24 we can talk about my situation as often as you want,

00:26 I cannot just not change my answers, to be honest.

00:29 No, I can't do with it.

00:32 Just imagine when you stood on the sidelines...

00:34 Yeah, it's just...

00:36 Look, when you're winning, that's a great position to watch a game,

00:39 when you're losing, it's pretty much the worst.

00:42 So that's how it is, it's all fine, I had that all often enough,

00:45 I don't know exactly how many games I had now as a manager,

00:48 but I had it quite a few times, so that's all fine, it's nothing to do with that.

00:51 If we win a game, then I want to stay manager, if we lose a game,

00:53 I don't want to stay manager, if the atmosphere is great,

00:55 I want to be a manager, if the atmosphere is not good, I want to leave.

00:59 It's a general decision about something which has nothing to do

01:02 with these little moments or whatever.

01:05 I'm really sorry if I cannot explain it properly enough,

01:08 maybe I have to say it in German and you can all translate it,

01:11 I'm not sure that will be better, by the way, the translation.

01:14 Nobody has to worry about anything, but it's not that I say, "Oh, my God, that's so great."

01:20 I know absolutely everything about the things I do,

01:23 but I need to be on my top game to do it like I do it.

01:27 If I feel I'm not there, then I'm not the manager I have to be anymore,

01:34 and that's how it is, you are not only a little bit worse,

01:37 then you are immediately properly worse and bad, and then you are in the wrong place.

01:41 If you can see that early, you make a decision early. That's what I did.