Klopp hopes 'fantastic' Salah stays at Liverpool

Former Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp has said helium hopes Mohamed Salah stays astatine the club, labelling him the champion striker they person had successful modern times.

Salah's declaration is acceptable to expire astatine the extremity of the play with the 32-year-old Egypt planetary saying earlier successful January helium was "far away" from a woody being reached.

When asked astir the situation, Klopp told reporters: "I anticipation helium stays. [He's] the biggest striker LFC had successful the modern times. Obviously determination were different truly bully strikers, but fantastic player, fantastic quality being, outstanding athlete, champion ambassador your state [Egypt] could have.

"Fantastic successful each departments, truthful I anticipation helium volition enactment astatine Liverpool."

Klopp was successful complaint astatine Anfield erstwhile Salah arrived from Roma successful June 2017. Salah made an contiguous impact, scoring 44 goals successful 52 games successful each competitions successful his archetypal play connected Merseyside.

The brace went connected to triumph aggregate trophies together, including the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup and League Cup.

In January 2024, Klopp announced helium would permission Liverpool astatine the extremity of the 2023-24 season, before helium announced his instrumentality to football successful October arsenic Red Bull's planetary caput of soccer.

Klopp volition not beryllium conscionable a token personage successful his caller station but volition effort to adhd worth to the organisation, helium said connected Tuesday.

"It's beauteous overmuch what I wanted to do. I finished 7 months agone astatine Liverpool. I did that consciously," helium said. "A fewer months aft that the accidental came up. I don't privation to beryllium a rider oregon a salient idiosyncratic successful the room. I truly privation to enactment immoderate worth connected it."

Klopp volition not beryllium progressive successful the day-to-day operations but enactment arsenic advisor for the Red Bull-owned clubs successful Germany, United States, Brazil, Japan and Austria portion besides supporting the organisation's planetary scouting operation. He volition besides lend to the grooming and improvement of coaches.

"I ever wanted to effort to larn caller worldly and I felt instantly that its precisely what I privation to do. It's a antithetic role."

Klopp said helium nary longer wanted to enactment arsenic a coach, having done it for much than 20 years, and jumped astatine this challenge.

"I did not privation to bash that anymore. I wanted to get a caller commencement and this is an opportunity. To adhd value....