LONDON: Former Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp has dismissed speculation linking him with the Real Madrid job, though the German said he was not completely finished as \u200ca coach.
\nThe 58-year-old who is working as Red Bull\u2019s head of global soccer left Liverpool at the end of the 2023-24 season after a nine-year spell that delivered major honours including Champions League and Premier League titles.
\nReal appointed former right back Alvaro Arbeloa, previously their reserve team coach, as manager in January following the departure of Xabi Alonso who was sacked after seven months in charge amid a poor run of results and reports of unrest among senior players.
\n\u201cIf Real Madrid had phoned, we would have heard about it by now,\u201d Klopp told reporters at the Magenta TV \u200cWorld Cup team presentation on Monday.
\n\u201cBut that\u2019s all nonsense. They haven\u2019t called even once\u2013not once. My agent is there, you can ask him. They haven\u2019t called him either.
\n\u201cRight now I\u2019m not thinking about that. Luckily, there\u2019s no reason to.
\n\u201cFor my age, I\u2019m quite advanced in life, but as a coach I\u2019m not completely finished. I haven\u2019t reached retirement age. Who knows what will happen in the coming years? But there\u2019s nothing planned.\u201d
\nKlopp, who previously managed Mainz 05 and Borussia Dortmund, has also said he would never coach another team in England apart from Liverpool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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