Jurgen Klopp has dropped the biggest hint yet he is unlikely to ever return to club management as he opened up on his new life after Liverpool.
Klopp last week left his job as Reds boss after almost nine years in charge to begin what he insists will be an extended sabbatical of at least 12 months
The German has subsequently spent time in Mallorca - he bought a villa on the Balearic island two years ago
Klopp was back in Liverpool on Tuesday for a farewell event held at the M&S Bank Arena.
Klopp has once again intimated he no longer has the energy to operate in the fashion he would want as a club manager.
Klopp
"It's out of the question that I'll stop working altogether,"
"But I don't see myself continuing at the same pace as before at the moment.
"A coach is a coach. And you do it with everything you have, or nothing at all. That's how I understand it.
“Now I'm taking my time off. How am I supposed to know how I'll feel during or after the time off, and what I want to do then? I have no idea. Let's wait and see."
Klopp's villa in the Mallorcan resort of Santa Ponsa, which was reportedly bought for £3.4million, is undergoing the finishing touches of a major renovation to turn it into an environmentally-friendly eco-house
Explaining his decision to buy property on the island with his wife Ulla
Klopp said
“We are getting older and the medical care here is great. There are many German doctors and I would like to be able to understand every word, how I feel and so on, when the problems become bigger.
“I've dreamed of having a house in the south all my life. I like the weather, the climate, I like the people.
“There are lots of things I like here. And also people I already know. It's not like I'm looking for new friends. I already have friends for life, and if some of them are here too, that's cool.
“I don't want to emigrate. We go on holiday here every now and then. But when I'm here, I want everything to be as I know it. That's totally boring.
“But the point is that I want to get to know a different life, but not somewhere in the jungle or on the mountain."
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