I will sleep better without Klopp
Manchester Evening News|January 27, 2024
PEP JOKES ABOUT RIVALRY-BUT TELLS OF HIS ADMIRATION FOR LIVERPOOL BOSS
SIMON BAJKOWSKI
I will sleep better without Klopp

PEP Guardiola has opened up on his admiration for Jurgen Klopp after the Liverpool manager announced he will stand down from his position at Anfield at the end of the season. Klopp dropped that bombshell yesterday morning and will see things through to the summer before widespread changes behind the scenes.

Klopp, 56, has won every trophy available to him since Liverpool appointed him in 2015 following his success at Borussia Dortmund and the German has proved a worthy adversary for City and Guardiola over the past decade.

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