Manchester United and Chelsea have publicly denied claims from J\u00fcrgen Klopp\u2019s agent that both clubs made approaches after the manager\u2019s Liverpool exit in the summer of 2024. The agent\u2019s remark is recorded as: \u201cEven Chelsea and Manchester United inquired,\u201d Kosicke recalled, \u201calthough J\u00fcrgen had clearly stated that he would not coach any other club in England.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those denials, \u201cas reported by Sky Sports News,\u201d came amid a period of upheaval at both clubs. Chelsea were without a manager at the time of Klopp\u2019s departure while United were still employing Erik ten Hag. The draft notes that, after winning that summer\u2019s FA Cup, the divisive Dutch boss was surprisingly handed a new contract a matter of months before belatedly parting ways with the club. His successor, Ruben Amorim, was also sacked after an even worse record.<\/p>\n
The report highlights that United\u2019s recent insistence they were not snubbed by Klopp in 2024 sits alongside earlier episodes in which the club failed to secure him. The narrative recalls Sir Alex Ferguson\u2019s search for a successor in 2013. With his 26-year reign entering its final weeks, Ferguson is said to have contacted Klopp, who at the time had led Borussia Dortmund to consecutive Bundesliga titles and was preparing for a Champions League final against Bayern Munich at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n
Klopp\u2019s own recollection of those conversations is recorded exactly. \u201cWe spoke,\u201d Klopp revealed during his first season at Liverpool in 2016. \u201cWe spoke not a lot but, for me, it was a lot. It was a big honour, the whole talk, to be honest. But I could not leave Dortmund.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are in April and you are in the middle of the planning for next season. You have this player and this player who are coming but then you are not there anymore? That doesn\u2019t work. Not in my life.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t hear about a real offer [from United] but, if there was, I could not have done it. I first had to finish the job with Dortmund and then think about other things. Maybe that is not smart but that is my way. It was the same at Mainz.\u201d<\/p>\n
The draft also recalls a 2014 episode when Ed Woodward travelled to Dortmund. Raphael Honigstein\u2019s biography, Bring the Noise, claims Woodward compared Manchester United\u2019s Old Trafford home to \u201can adult version of Disneyland,\u201d where mythical dreams could come true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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