'I was on fire from the first second': Jurgen Klopp recalls how top secret meeting with Liverpool in New York led to Anfield giants bringing an end to his break away by hiring him in 2015
Jurgen Klopp has opened up on the top secret talks that cut short his holiday and led to his appointment as Liverpool boss in 2015. The Anfield outfit had been languishing in mid-table at the start of the 2015/16 campaign, despite coming agonisingly close to the title just the year before, and opted to sack Brendan Rodgers. Their first-choice target to replace him was Jurgen Klopp, who had vowed to take a full season out to spend time with his family after leaving Borussia Dortmund, and the 53-year-old revealed how Liverpool snapped him up in a new BBC documentary. Jurgen Klopp has revealed all about the top secret meetings before his Liverpool appointment Liverpool's first-choice target was Klopp after Brendan Rodgers' sacking in the 2015/16 season Klopp admitted that he had been enjoying some sun on holiday in Portugal when his agent phoned him to alert him to Liverpool's interest. The highly-ambitious tactician, despite having to prematurely end his break away from the