Jurgen Klopp is once again in the sights of the key stakeholders in German Football to manage the national team.
Klopp has regularly been linked to take over the reigns of the National team and the Mirror reports that there is a growing enthusiasm within the corridors of football power in his homeland to line up Klopp as a successor to Joachim Low.
And more significantly, the report says Klopp himself is believed to see managing the national side as a natural development.
In December, the much loved manager signed a contract extension until the end of 2024 and there is no get-out clause attached to that deal.
The German sees this role at Liverpool as his last in club management and it is a sign of how much he loves the club that when positions at Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid have become available, he has not been tempted in the slightest.
It goes without saying that Liverpool are thrilled with the progress that Klopp has made during his tenure where he has built a culture of success, and doing so with eye-catching Football and in a humble fashion.
At the press conference after he signed the contract extension, Klopp said that whenever he does depart, “he wants to leave it the club in a very good place”.
The powers-that-be at the club feel that Klopp can build a lasting legacy in the same way that Alex Ferguson and Arsenal Wenger did at Man United and Arsenal.
Low has been in the role of German team manager since 2006 and has had many good moments in that time with the World Cup success in 2014 undoubtedly being the pinnacle.
However in more recent times, Low has experienced tougher times which has included a dismal 2018 World Cup campaign where they were eliminated at the group stage.
That poor form continued in the Nations League when they were relegated from League A to League B after failing to win against France and the Netherlands.
However they were spared the humiliation after UEFA decided to increase the number of nations in League A from 12 to 16, meaning the four nations who should have been relegated will now remain in League A.
Germany did find their form in qualifying for the now postponed Euro 2020 winning seven of their eight games and the international tournaments as viewed as the true litmus test for Low.
While there is a number of young up and coming managers in German Football, it appears that Klopp only has to say the word and the job will be his.
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