Jurgen Klopp's comments on international job after 'pitch' to become USA manager

Liverpool legend Jurgen Klopp has already been asked about his feelings on managing at an international level in the future amid links with the USMNT job . The German has been put forward for the US side after it exited the Copa America in the group phase.

While he has already confirmed that he will take a year out to rest and recuperate (Klopp is currently enjoying time in Majorca and has also been spotted watching Taylor Swift and the Champions League final), the German hasn't retired. The German national team job would appear most logical when Julian Nagelsmann returns to the club game, but the US would be an interesting proposition too.

"I really can not say [if international management would be appealing]," Klopp said back in 2019, via BILD . "I do not know if I would like to. Now, as of today, I do not feel like it.

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"As of now, I'm totally happy with what I do and that's important in the whole story. I also could not say one hundred per cent if I was the right one [to replace Joachim Low]. If the question ever arises, I would think about it — but not now."

Former USMNT goalkeeper Tim Howard wrote in a column for the Daily Mail this week : "I know Klopp has only been retired a few weeks and I know he wants a break. But if we sat around his villa in Spain, I think I could lure him over here. 100 per cent.

"The money is certainly there. So my pitch would be simple: he has a young group of players who can play progressive, front-foot soccer — exactly like his Liverpool teams. And in two years’ time, he can go to the biggest World Cup in history."

Liverpool.com says: The US job would come with a lot of perks but at the same time, while it is a co-host at the next World Cup, it is hard to see the soccer side being at a level where it could compete much beyond the group phase. If Klopp went to manage Germany instead, he would be working with the likes of Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz in their prime.