'I can't see myself beyond 70': Jurgen Klopp on how long he wants to be a coach

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'I can't see myself beyond 70': Jurgen Klopp on how long he wants to be a coach

"I know I dream of football, so that’s not cool… the job is incredibly demanding, it is, but it’s great as well," Jurgen Klopp said on the BT Sport podcast Mike Calvin’s Football People.

"So that’s why I say when Roy Hodgson came back again, when he came in, I saw him and ask him 'do you have a wet flat? You go again?' and he says 'no, I love it'.

"I cannot see myself beyond 70 and still standing on the dugout each weather, and especially each weather for training, one and a half, two hours, standing there in the wind.

"I can’t see that. But I understand a little bit where they are coming from and I hope other things are that interesting to me that I am really fine with not being involved anymore."

Klopp is 55 years old now, so we might yet see him in football for up to 15 years, if he's to retire at 70.

In the same podcast, the German revealed that he has enough energy to be the Liverpool boss for 10 more years - but as of now, his contract expires in three and a half years.

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