Pep Guardiola calls Jurgen Klopp ‘best rival of my career’ and backs him to return to management

Pep Guardiola joked that he’ll sleep higher as soon as Jurgen Klopp has left Liverpool – and backed his long-time rival to return to management someday.
Klopp made the shock announcement on Friday morning that he shall be quitting Anfield on the finish of the season after 9 years in cost.
Guardiola joined City a yr after Klopp arrived on Merseyside, and the duo have been jostling on the prime of English soccer virtually ever since, with the German ending Liverpool’s 30-year anticipate the title in 2020.
I’ll sleep higher. Before taking part in towards Liverpool was at all times a nightmare
Pep Guardiola on Jurgen Klopp
They had beforehand locked horns for 2 years in Germany with Guardiola at Bayern Munich and Klopp in cost of Borussia Dortmund, and have confronted one another greater than some other supervisor – a complete of 29 instances.
The two golf equipment have since met within the Premier League on 15 events in an everlasting rivalry which Guardiola as soon as described as “beautiful”, with City profitable 5 matches, Liverpool 4 and the opposite six ending as attracts.
Guardiola, whose aspect presently path leaders Liverpool by 5 factors however have a sport in hand, mentioned: “I’ll sleep higher. Before taking part in towards Liverpool was at all times a nightmare.
“Of course he shall be missed. It was shock to everybody. As Manchester City we are going to lose one thing, we can’t outline our interval with out him and with out Liverpool.
“He is the perfect rival I’ve had in my profession. The Premier League will miss his charisma and persona. I want him all the perfect.”
Klopp plans to take a yr off after leaving Liverpool and then see how he feels however has dominated out a return to management in England.
Guardiola, who took a year-long sabbatical from soccer after leaving Barcelona in 2012 earlier than taking cost at Bayern Munich, has no doubts that the German will return to the dugout in some unspecified time in the future.
The Spaniard added: “He is not going to admit it however he shall be again. I do know it. Maybe in 10 years time, when he’s charged his power. I’m saying this persona shall be again. With nationwide staff, I don’t know.
“Nine years in the identical place, possibly he wants to breathe, to step again. At Barcelona I had that feeling.
“But soccer wants personalities like him. Hopefully subsequent season we may have time to exit for dinner collectively.”