Jurgen Klopp Liverpool return considered but dream managerial target identified

Suraj Radia

• 29 Nov 2025 06:15 CST
• 3 min read

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Jurgen Klopp could in line to make a sensational return to Liverpool if Arne Slot is sacked, with the club already said to have identified their dream long-term target for the manager’s job.

Slot has come under increasing pressure just six months after lifting the Premier League title, having seen Liverpool lose nine of their last 12 matches in all competitions.

The Dutchman has become a leading candidate to be the next manager sacked, while bookmakers have also listed Klopp as the favourite to replace Slot following a report by The Sun that Liverpool may make a crisis call to their former boss.

Klopp left Liverpool 18 months ago and is currently the Global Head of Soccer with Red Bull, having insisted he was taking a break from management following a nine-year stint at Anfield.

It is claimed that Klopp could be approached to take over until the end of the season, with Liverpool then hoping they can lure long-term target Luis Enrique from Paris Saint-Germain to the job.

Liverpool are thought to be willing to give Slot more time to turn things around but conversations have allegedly taken place between club executives over concerns that the manager could lose the dressing room if the situation doesn’t improve.

Klopp: Liverpool return is ‘theoretically possible’

Klopp made an appearance on the Diary of a CEO podcast last month where he admitted that a return to Liverpool was ‘theoretically possible’.

"I said I will never coach another team, a different team, in England," he said. "So that means if then it's Liverpool... yeah. Theoretically it's possible."

While he admitted things could change, Klopp had also spoken previously of his reluctance to return to management, having claimed ‘that’s it for me as a coach’.

"I don't want it anymore. I now have a job (as Red Bull's global head of soccer) that fulfils me and is also intense,” Klopp told German media last month. “For me, it was never about not doing anything anymore, but about doing something else.

"I've coached 1081 games, and that's not including the friendly matches. If we add those from 23 years, we might come to 1200. Then the press conferences, the media appointments. I always just reacted. And in Liverpool there were also the tasks as manager.

"That was a lot, a lot."

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