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Chris Flanagan

Why now? Jurgen Klopp wants to leave Liverpool on top – and depart like Sir Alex Ferguson, not Arsene Wenger

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp.

“I know for a fact he wanted to go out at the top. I sometimes wonder whether he’d have left if we’d won the league the year before.”

In 2013, Sir Alex Ferguson announced out of the blue that he was stepping down as Manchester United boss at the end of the season. There have been few moments that have shocked the Premier League in quite the same way since, until Jurgen Klopp’s surprise revelation that he was leaving Liverpool.

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