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Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool FC manager, has made a sensational announcement amid the ongoing Premier League 2023-24 season as he confirmed that he will step down from his role at the end of the campaign.

This announcement has taken the Premier League and football fans by storm as Klopp and Liverpool are having a promising season with the Reds currently sitting at the top of the league table.

The 56-year-old Klopp will continue to oversee the team’s remaining fixtures of 2023-24 before bringing the curtain down on a glorious eight-and-a-half-year managerial reign at Anfield.

In a statement released on Liverpool’s website, Klopp was quoted saying, “I can understand that it’s a shock for a lot of people at this moment when you hear it for the first time, but obviously I can explain it – or at least try to explain it. I love absolutely everything about this club, I love everything about the city, I love everything about our supporters, I love the team, I love the staff. I love everything. But that I still take this decision shows you that I am convinced it is the one I have to take.

“It is that I am, how can I say it, running out of energy. I have no problem now, obviously, I knew it already for longer that I would have to announce it at one point, but I am absolutely fine now. I know that I cannot do the job again and again and again and again. After the years we had together and after all the time we spent together and after all the things we went through together, the respect grew for you, the love grew for you and the least I owe you is the truth – and that is the truth,” Klopp added.

Having joined the club as manager back in 2015, Klopp went on to lead the side to the Premier League, FA Cup as well as the Champions League title in his tally of six major trophies during his stint.

Talking about his decision to step down, Klopp said, “I told the club already in November. I have to explain a little bit that maybe the job I do people see from the outside, I’m on the touchline and in training sessions and stuff like this, but the majority of all the things happen around these kinds of things. That means a season starts and you plan pretty much the next season already.

“When we sat there together talking about potential signings, the next summer camp and can we go wherever the thought came up, ‘I am not sure I am here then anymore’ and I was surprised myself by that. I obviously start thinking about it,” he added.

Liverpool are at the moment at the top of the Premier League table with 48 points from 21 games, five points ahead of the defending champions, Manchester City.