Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool payoff has been revealed (Image: Getty)
and his staff received a combined £9.6million when they left Anfield last summer. The cost of paying off the iconic former head coach and his backroom team has been revealed in the club’s 2023-24 financial results.
In January 2024, Klopp announced his surprise decision to leave at the end of the 2023-24 campaign. He still had two years remaining on a four-year extension he signed in 2022. Many of Klopp’s backroom team, including assistants Pep Lijnders and Peter Krawietz and goalkeeping coach John Achterberg, left alongside the German. ’s financial results for the 2023-24 season show that departed staff, including Klopp, were paid a combined £9.6m in payouts.
Responding to news articles, some fans wondered whether Klopp had actually been sacked by the club. He had overseen a tough 2022-23 campaign the previous year, which saw the Reds fail to qualify for the Champions League.
However, it is likely that contracts simply included various clauses that meant coaches were due certain amounts of money. Klopp, who is now head of global football at , has spoken prominently about believing his decision to leave was the right one – dismissing any suggestions that he was actually dismissed.
In an interview with ’s website at the time of his decision to quit, he said: “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.”
Jurgen Klopp and his staff received a combined £9.6m in payouts from Liverpool (Image: Getty)
Klopp expanded on his reason for leaving management behind in his first press conference with ’s football group, adding: “When you are in the job for 25 years, it’s super intense. The only thing is that I am a very curious person and I couldn’t feed that anymore.
“It was just game after game after game after game. You keep a specific level and I wasn’t extremely happy with that to be honest.”
The figures released by also show that the club posted a record pre-tax loss of £57m for the 2023-24 season. The lack of Champions League football led to a significant £38m drop in media revenue and costs continued to rise.