Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has announced that he will leave the club at the end of the season.
The German took over on Merseyside in 2015 – winning one league title, a Champions League, an FA Cup and a League Cup in that time.
In a statement, the 56-year-old said he's leaving for personal reasons.
"Running out of energy"
"I can understand that it’s a shock for a lot of people in this moment, when you hear it for the first time, but obviously I can explain it – or at least try to explain it,” he said.
“I love absolutely everything about this club; I love everything about the city, I love everything about our supporters, I love the team, I love the staff. I love everything – but that I still take this decision shows you that I am convinced it is the one I have to take.
“It is that I am, how can I say it, running out of energy.
"I have no problem now, obviously, I knew it already for longer that I will have to announce it at one point, but I am absolutely fine now.
"I know that I cannot do the job again and again and again and again.
“After the years we had together and after all the time we spent together and after all the things we went through together, the respect grew for you, the love grew for you and the least I owe you is the truth – and that is the truth.”
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Assistant managers Pepijn Lijnders and Peter Krawietz will also leave the club at the same time, Liverpool said.
"In keeping with Jurgen's expressed wishes, we will save the comprehensive tributes for a more appropriate time but nevertheless, we would be remiss if we did not take this opportunity to reaffirm that his appointment remains one of the greatest blessings of our time as owners," Mike Gordon, Fenway Sports Group president, said.
"The incredible achievements of the intervening years speak for themselves, so too does the joy that Jurgen and his team have brought to all of us supporters. His many accomplishments will never be taken for granted."
Klopp was appointed Liverpool manager in 2015 after Brendan Rodgers left the club, having forged his reputation at Borussia Dortmund.
Under him, Dortmund won back-to-back Bundesliga titles in 2011 and 2012 and he took them to the 2013 Champions League final, where they lost to Bayern Munich at Wembley.
