Jurgen Klopp has made himself clear. He only wants to coach Germany. Real Madrid would like him to make the first move, but that is just not going to happen.
Jurgen Klopp and Real Madrid are on diverging paths once again. One is thinking about the German national team for the future, and the White Club executives are thinking about other coaches for the first-team bench. There is nothing more, and there is no room for further rumors.
Fans and journalists want to know the name of Alvaro Arbeloa's possible successor sooner rather than later. There is even anxiety about knowing the future owner of Real Madrid's bench. This circumstance has led to the appearance of numerous lists of possibilities and to many coaches being placed in the race of candidates.
The truth is that some of those names have not been part of the debates that have been held for that purpose at Valdebebas. Others have been offered in very different ways for the double game of agents trying to awaken the interest of other teams.
The most striking case of all of them is none other than Jurgen Klopp, a coach appreciated by Real Madrid, but who has not figured among the candidates in an open process in which there is no hurry to finalize the name of the chosen one, as was demonstrated when Zinedine Zidane left the Madrid bench in 2021, and Ancelotti's arrival was not closed until a few weeks later.
Linking the Madrid club with the German coach has been a recurring topic for 14 years, just after the coach and Real Madrid faced each other in the Champions League with a Borussia Dortmund full of stars who were not yet stars at that time, such as Lewandowski, Reus, or Gotze.
From that moment on, the coach's name has appeared in the media as a future Real Madrid coach. On this occasion, he has not missed the appointment either, but at Valdebebas, they have not thought about hiring him to be the owner of the Madrid locker room.
Klopp is waiting for the German national team. He is in no hurry and has a lot of respect for Nagelsmann's work, the current German coach. That is his goal. AS reported, and nothing has changed. Until that moment arrives, the former Liverpool and Borussia Dortmund coach's task will continue to be that of sporting director of the Red Bull group.
Klopp left the bench in the summer of 2024. Many teams have approached the coach, but the former Borussia Dortmund man has always been clear that he needed to step away from the benches for a while, or at least from the daily tension they generate.
And that remains the case for now. A coach who loves to control everything and be an active part of squad building, he confessed on repeated occasions to the erosion of day-to-day top-level football. Something from which he needed to take space. That does not prevent him from being one of the most sought-after coaches for his possible return.
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