As Jurgen Klopp’s tenure as Liverpool manager nears its end, there are parallels between how his time at Borussia Dortmund unfolded.

The German announced his decision to leave Anfield at the end of the season back in January, declaring that he was ‘running out of energy’.

I cannot do it on three wheels, it is not allowed, and I have never wanted to be a passenger.”

It was a similar story for Klopp when he announced his decision to step down as Dortmund manager back in April 2015.

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“I have always said that the day I feel that I am no longer the perfect coach for this extraordinary club I will say that,” he said.

While Liverpool beat Chelsea to win the League Cup back in February, they risk Klopp’s final season ending with a whimper as his side run out of steam.

In contrast, Dortmund endured an horrific final campaign under the German prior to him announcing his decision to step down as manager.

You think, ‘Oh, he might slap him back’.”

Fortunately for Dortmund, Klopp would turn things around as they won 30 points from their final 45 available to secure a seventh-place finish and qualify for European football against the odds.

Also reaching the DFB-Pokal final, Klopp would also joke that he would have announced his decision to leave much sooner if he had known it would prompt an upturn in Dortmund’s form.

"If I'd known before the start of the season that we'd put such a winning run together, I'd have announced my departure back then!” he joked at the end of the season.

But it did not stop the mixed emotions about his final year as Klopp departed after a cup final loss at the end of a season where Dortmund had failed to reach previous heights.

Plenty has been said about the timing of Klopp’s announcement to leave Liverpool back in January, and the possible impact it has had on his side.

It was a triumph considering where Dortmund had found themselves just three months earlier, even if they ultimately fell short in their efforts to win the cup..

But given Dortmund had reached the Champions League final two years earlier and had followed up two Bundesliga titles under Klopp with two second-place finishes, it was still a fall from grace.

Meanwhile, the dream Liverpool ending for their beloved German manager would have been celebrating a treble in five weeks’ time.
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