Jurgen Klopp targeted by Champions League club - and he's already made feelings clear

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Benfica presidential candidate Cristovao Carvalho wants Jurgen Klopp to become their next head coach(Image: Mark Sutton/Formula 1)

One of the candidates standing to become the next president of Benfica has vowed to make Jurgen Klopp the club's next manager if he is successful in next month's elections.

Klopp, 58, has not managed a club since leaving Liverpool at the end of the 2023-24 campaign.

The German has since taken on a new role away from the dugout as Red Bull's Global Head of Soccer and has heavily implied that he is done with management amid links to different clubs over the past 12 months.

However, that hasn't stopped Cristovao Carvalho, a potential Benfica president, from setting his sights on the former Premier League and Champions League winner should he be voted into power by the Portuguese outfit.

And he's also outlined grand plans for the future with the goal of reaching the Champions League final in the next five years.

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“With me, Bruno Lage [Benfica's current head coach] won't stay beyond his contract [which expires at the end of the season],” explained Carvalho during an interview with Portuguese outlet Sic Noticias ahead of the presidential elections on 25 October.

“I need a world-class coach, one who has already won the Champions League and who wants to win a Champions League with Benfica.

Someone who says that has something more to be at the club than anyone else.”

“With Benfica today, it's obvious we can't win a Champions League,” Carvalho continued.

I can promise Benfica fans that, in four or five years, we'll be playing in a Champions League final.”

While Carvalho has designs on luring Klopp to Benfica, it seems unlikely that the former Liverpool and Borussia Dortmund chief would consider such a move.

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