Former Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, has accepted a proposal from Red Bull to become their global head of Football.
After being without a job for 6 months, the 57-year-old will start his new role on the 1st January 2025.
Jurgen Klopp left Liverpool FC at the end of last season, where he achieved the Premier League title in 2019/20 and won the Champions League in 2018/19, totalling 488 matches having 303 wins in all competitions.
The organisation of Red Bull have become more and more expansive over the years, building major brands all over the world of sport. Currently, their highest success has come through Formula 1 with Red Bull being the current holders of the Drivers and Constructors Championships.
They also run four football clubs, those being RB Leipzig in the Bundesliga, Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian first division, Brazilian side Bragantino as well as New York Red Bulls in the MLS.
Red Bull has more recently acquired stakes and sponsors in English football, having a minority stake in Leeds United, as well as sponsoring West Ham and Newcastle as drink sponsors.
Klopp said: “The role may have changed but my passion for football and the people who make the game what it is has not.”
It is believed that in Jurgen Klopp’s new role, he will not be involved in day-to-day projects but rather oversee developments, such as player transfers, coaching developments, tactics and have a key role in monitoring youth players’ development at all the clubs.
