Jurgen Klopp has revealed Fenway Sports Group reluctantly accepted his decision to step down as Liverpool manager when he told them back in November.
Klopp announced he would be stepping away from the job he has performed for nine years at Anfield in a bombshell address on the club's official channels on Friday morning.
And the Reds boss has admitted FSG, who employed the German to succeed Brendan Rodgers in October 2015, were not happy when told the news last year, but have agreed for him to step away from a contract that will still have two years left to run this summer.
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"They didn’t smash a party!" Klopp told Liverpoolfc.com when asked how FSG reacted. "We developed a really good relationship over the years, but I explained it and they know me now for so long that they know I don’t say these kind of things and leave a little bit of the door open: ‘Come on, try to convince me’ and these kind of things.
"As I said, we’ve known each for so long and that good. That was clear and they accepted, they just accepted it. Nobody was really happy. The few people I have told so far, who I told so far, were not really happy. I am not happy with it, I just know it’s right.
"What are the alternative scenarios? What are they? Usually as a manager you get the sack. You have a bad spell before – five, six, seven weeks – and everybody is relieved when you part ways. I’m not sure what’s the other one… you get ill and you have to stop.
"And unfortunately, or fortunately, I have to do it like that. I don’t like that we have to make that fuss of myself, I don’t consider myself as that important but I know that the outside world sees that slightly different. That’s why we do
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