Liverpool defender Joel Matip will sign Jurgen Klopp to leave Anfield this summer, the club have confirmed.
Cameroonian foreigner Matip, 32, arrived in Klopp’s first summer transfer window in 2016. He has made 201 appearances in 8 seasons on Merseyside, although an ACL injury has forced him to sideline the game since the start of the year.
Klopp, the manager who brought the Schalke centre-back to the club, showed in January that he would leave at the end of the season. There are fewer certainties about Matip, whose contract expires in June, but Liverpool have now shown they can move on.
Matip leaves Liverpool after winning a multitude of trophies. He played the full 90 minutes in the 2019 Champions League final over Tottenham and made nine appearances in the campaign to win the 2019-20 Premier League title.
“In all the years I’ve been involved in football, I’m not sure I’ve met many players who have enjoyed it more than Joel Matip,” Klopp said of the 32-year-old. “I’m not even sure. It would be conceivable to say bad things about him.
“A glorious professional, a glorious footballer and a glorious human being. We were lucky enough to have him with us for so long and now all we can do is wish him luck as he takes a new direction. Joël’s qualities as a player are visual for everyone and, as a club, we’ve benefited from that from the first moment he joined. I don’t think he’s been in the news over the years, but he’s been a very prominent figure in our group.
“I’ve said before that if there was one user who didn’t mind being underestimated, it would be Joel, but the fact is, we couldn’t have given him a higher rating. Not only did he set criteria for himself, but he also set criteria for others and this is one of the main reasons why his stay here has been so successful.
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In early April, Klopp all but proved that Matip’s season was over. “Joël runs. He hates it, but he can run again. He no longer feels pain, but all of this takes time. I don’t think the season is over. enough time for him.
Earlier, the manager had suggested Liverpool show their elegance with the out-of-contract defender. However, he admitted that he may be the one to “sign the paper. “
“I’m pretty sure the club will show their class, exactly as they deserve to do,” he told a news conference shortly after Matip’s injury. “I’m pretty sure the club has already told Joel that whatever happens for so long, because he’s injured. Now we have to make decisions with Joel, how it will happen after that, it’s a general thing. But yes, he deserves all of our and he’ll get it.
Klopp himself has known for some time that Sunday’s game against Wolves will be the team’s last. He admitted he was “running out of energy” and showed his decision to leave after almost nine years as Liverpool manager.
“For sure I love everything about this club, I love everything about the city, I love everything about our fans, I love the team, I love the staff. I love everything,” she said at the time. But the fact that I am still making this resolution means that I am convinced that this is the one I have to make.
“It’s because I’m running out of energy. I don’t have any disorders now, obviously, I’ve known about it for longer than I announced at any time, but now I’m completely fine. I know I can’t do the paintings. Over and over and over and over again.
“After the years you’ve been together and after all the time you’ve been together and after all the things you’ve been through together, respect has grown for you, love has grown for you and the least I owe you is the deed, and that’s it. . done. “
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