Graham Smyth reacts to what he’s heard on Jurgen Klopp to Leeds United – ‘Shocker’
Jurgen Klopp has been touted as a potential option for Leeds United if they sack Daniel Farke.
Farke kept his Leeds job in the summer despite huge pressure over his poor record in the Premier League.
If results go the wrong way in the next few weeks, the German may find himself in trouble again, and the 49ers’ Enterprises group may have a decision to make.
Reports earlier this week suggested that they might turn to Klopp, given the links between Red Bull and the Whites.
Graham Smyth denies Jurgen Klopp links with Leeds
The links between Klopp and Leeds United are obvious, as he is the Global Head of Soccer at Red Bull, but that is about as far as they go.
Smyth has rubbished any notion of the Premier League and Champions League-winning manager taking over in LS11.
Speaking on the Inside Elland Road podcast on 5 November, he said: “That is just an absolute shocker that one.
“The man himself has quite literally said the words, ‘I am not going to manage another team in England’, which just doesn’t seem to come into people’s minds at all,” Smyth said.
He added: “If Jurgen Klopp was to go back into management, an I am not someone who has followed his clear particularly closely, but I would imagine that a national team, like the German national team, would be far more inevitable than a recently promoted to the Premier League club.
“Just bizarre, weird and very, very pointless.”
Why Klopp will never manage Leeds
Smyth is spot on, Klopp will never manage the Whites as he has such an affinity for his former club, Liverpool.
He said when he left the Reds and has since reiterated that he would never return to manage another English club, that was not the Anfield side.
- Klopp won eight trophies with the Reds, including the big two
- He ended a 30-year wait for a Premier League title
- He won 299 of the 491 matches that he managed in his time in L4
Why would he risk his almost god-like status with the Merseyside supporters to come to Yorkshire?
The suggestion is absolutely ludicrous, just because Red Bull have an influence on the Peacocks, that does not mean that Klopp will want to join the club.
Farke may well lose his job in the future, if the Whites are in and around the relegation zone, but his fellow German will not be the man who takes over the reins.
It is a pipe dream, and quite frankly, it is lazy journalism to even suggest that it is a realistic possibility after what he has stated in public forums, on several occasions.
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