The information of Jurgen Klopp‘s departure on the finish of the season additionally introduced with it the exit of his coaches, together with Pepijn Lijnders, who has now himself defined his cause to depart Anfield.
Klopp dropped a bombshell final week when he introduced the 2023/24 was to be his final on the helm, and his exit may even see Lijnders, Peter Krawietz and Vitor Matos comply with him out of the membership.
It immediately dominated Lijnders out of the working to interchange Klopp, who, was fast to declare each his assistant and Matos “ready” to tackle a brand new problem elsewhere.
Now, Lijnders himself has defined his choice to depart the membership after serving in numerous roles for 10 years.
“I owe this membership the whole lot,” he instructed the club’s website. “They don’t owe me something, to be trustworthy. It’s 10 years filled with dedication.
“I at all times mentioned I’ll end with Jurgen; the second I cannot help anybody else, that’s the second I’ll go and I’ll handle. That was at all times the case.
“So after we spoke, it was clear for me: OK, then I’m going and handle, and we finish this undertaking collectively [that] we began. However yeah, it’s not simple.
“My boys, my spouse; my boys are two correct Scousers and their entire life they are going to be. Perhaps posh ones! However nonetheless! I can not say thanks sufficient to all people concerned. I’m grateful.
“Mike [Gordon] and myself had a superb speak later, I’m actually grateful for that and that makes me [feel] as effectively that I can go away the membership consciously.”
A brand new chapter awaits, then, in the summertime, however what that entails continues to be but to be decided, although he did trace that Matos will likely be alongside him in no matter position he takes on subsequent.
“I hope I may give the identical feelings and the identical pleasure to the followers sooner or later, to the brand new membership,” Lijnders defined on what the longer term holds.
“I actually imagine that it’s a pure development, how we led this membership for the final years, in order that’s actually cool and I can’t wait to begin.
“However most likely in a number of months’ time I’ll sit down with my supervisor, now just isn’t the time, however then I’ll see what sort of choices do I’ve, which membership actually needs [me], and in that second I’ll decide that’s for me good, hopefully for Vitor what is sweet and hopefully for my household.
“Yeah, actually and from the underside of my coronary heart, I simply hope that our paths cross once more sooner or later – that will be completely unbelievable.”
