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Global Head of Soccer Jürgen Klopp gestures at Red Bull Hangar-7 on January 14, 2025 in Salzburg, Austria(Image: Marcel Engelbrecht - firo sportphoto/Getty Images)

Jurgen Klopp has revealed he turned down an approach from Germany in 2023, admitting he felt he couldn't leave Liverpool after disappointing season.

The Reds failed to qualify for the Champions League in the 22/33 term under Klopp as they were made to settle for a Europa League spot by ending the campaign in fifth.

And speaking to Welt in his homeland, the 2020 Premier League felt he had a duty to put it right at Anfield when the prospect of the Mannschaft job was put to him two years ago.

"The season before that [final one] didn't go so well for Liverpool - and in the summer after this season, Germany was looking for a new national coach," Klopp said.

I've never been so cold not to remember the good things I said to a player a week earlier.

"We had brought in new players like Endo, Gravenberch, Szoboszlai and Mac Allister.

But for me it felt right, just like it did back then in Mainz and later in Dortmund."

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Klopp added: "The contact [with Liverpool] is very good – with some players who write from time to time or send one or two photos from their holidays.

A colorful bouquet full of memories – and 99% of them are beautiful."

Opening up more on his decision to walk away from coaching after nearly 25 years, Klopp said: "I don't want it anymore.

"I now have a job (as Red Bull's global head of soccer) that fulfills me and is also intense.

If at some point people don't know that I used to be a coach at Liverpool FC, that's fine.