Izuchukwu OkosiLiverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, on Friday, announced that he will step down from his position at the end of the season, sparking shock waves in the Premier League and world football.
Klopp joined the Reds in October 2015 and his contract was due to run until the summer of 2026.
The German won the UEFA Champions League with Liverpool in 2019 when they beat Premier League rivals, Tottenham Hotspur, before leading the side to their first league crown in 30 years in the 2019-20 campaign.
The Reds also claimed the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup after the league title.
“I told the club already in November,” Klopp disclosed on Friday as he addressed the media.
“I can understand that it’s a shock for a lot of people in this moment when you hear it for the first time, but obviously I can explain it – or at least try to explain it.
“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.
“It is that I am, how can I say it, running out of energy. I have no problem now, obviously, I knew it already for longer that I will have to announce it at one point, but I am absolutely fine now. I know that I cannot do the job again and again and again and again.
Liverpool under Klopp won a domestic cup double in the 2021/22 season and narrowly missed out on a quadruple as they were pipped by Manchester City on the final day of the Premier League season despite a 98-point haik to City’s 101.
They also lost the Champions League final to Real Madrid in Paris.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
