Klopp led Liverpool to their first league title in 30 years in 2020 and to Champions League glory in 2019 among seven trophies during his time at Anfield.
He could add a few more in the coming months as he aims to go out on a high.
Liverpool are five points clear at the top of the Premier League, face Chelsea in the League Cup final next month and are still involved in the FA Cup and Europa League.
Klopp said he had taken the decision in November when discussions with the club about potential signings for next season began.
“The other situation would have been, we go into next season, and I realised, and then, I knew it before and get into it and try to get somehow through it. That’s not how it should be, and that’s why I told, first, the club the decision, then my coaches the decision and since today everybody knows it, and that’s it,” he said.
“I still think it’s the right thing to do. I can just tell you, I don’t take these kind of things lightly, so, I’m convinced that it’s right, and that’s why I said it.”
After years of battling with Manchester City at the top of the Premier League and reaching the later stages of the Champions League, Liverpool struggled to match their usual standards under Klopp in the 2022/23 season.
But Klopp said it was vital for him to not leave on that sour note.
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“For me it was super, super, super-important that I can help to bring this team back onto the rails. It was all I was thinking about,” said Klopp on Liverpool’s return to form this season.
“When I realised pretty early that happened, it’s a really good team with massive potential and a super age group, super characters and all that, then I could start thinking about myself again and that was the outcome. It is not what I want to (do), it is just what I think is 100 per cent right.”
Klopp has spoken in the past of his desire to manage the German national team, but he hinted that those ambitions will be put on hold until he is refreshed.
“Whatever will happen in the future I don’t know now but no club, no country for the next year. No other English club ever, I can promise that,” he added.
Klopp’s biggest rival during his reign has been Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola, who saluted the German after his side’s FA Cup victory at Tottenham on Friday night.
“Of course he will be missed. It was a shock to everyone. At Manchester City, we cannot define our period without him,” Guardiola said.
“He is the best rival I have had in my career. I will sleep better. Before playing against Liverpool was always a nightmare!”
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