Who will replace Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool? Anfield boss to have no say on successor, backs FSG ownership

Jurgen Klopp insists he will not interfere in the selection process to decide his successor as Liverpool manager.

Klopp stunned the football world on Friday, January 26, when he announced he would stand down at the end of the 2023/24 season, concluding eight and a half glorious years on Merseyside.

Speculation is already rife over who might replace the 56-year-old in the Anfield hot seat, with former Liverpool midfielder and current Bayer Leverkusen head coach Xabi Alonso ranked among the front runners.

Succession planning after a tenure such as Klopp's is seldom simple, with David Moyes struggling under the weight of being Alex Ferguson's "chosen one" at Manchester United in 2013/14 to name one example.

However, Klopp believes that the collective strength of a Liverpool organisation that has been built around him stands the club in good stead and means his opinion will not and should not be sought.

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"In this world, in football especially, we have a few faces most of the time," he said. "[Other people] who do an incredible job you don't see as often. That's how you live this kind of business.

"It looks like that I do all the work. I don't. I can't and I don't. It means that all of what we built over the past eight and half years is an incredibly strong structure behind the scenes. Everything goes in the right direction. That's one of the reasons why I can leave.

"My idea was always to put everything in place to help with everything that this club [needs to] get stronger and stronger and stronger. We did that, not perfect but as good as we could.

"So many people work here and with only one idea: to find a perfect solution