'Are you crazy?': Jurgen Klopp was shocked by call he got the DAY after announcing Liverpool exit

Jurgen Klopp couldn’t believe the phone call he received just one day after announcing he was to leave Liverpool.

Jurgen Klopp says he received a phone call just one day after announcing his planned exit from Liverpool. It was a phone call he wasn't expecting - mainly because it suggested people weren't entirely listening to what he was saying.

Klopp has been clear since day one that he'd take a break from football after leaving Liverpool. That hasn't stopped him from receiving offers, however.

The USA quite publicly made contact this summer, while he was rumoured for the England job before ruling himself out of it.

But that's just the latest of it. Klopp has revealed that he actually got a phone call the day after his announcement, making him wonder if people heard him when he said he wouldn't take another job for a year.

"At the moment, there is nothing at all in terms of jobs. No club, no country," he told the Coaches' Congress in Wurzburg, per Sky Sports.

"It doesn't matter who calls: In my resignation statement, I said that I wouldn't coach any country or club for a year. Some people must have missed that part.

"The very next day, someone called, and I said, 'Are you crazy? I just explained that yesterday'."

Klopp takes a year break

Klopp was always going to take at least a year. For one thing, the only way Liverpool let him out of his contract one year early is if he stayed away from other coaching jobs for that year.

He will do that - it couldn't be clearer at this point - and we'll see sometime next year what Klopp plans to do. It promises to be one of the biggest decisions in football and game-changing for at least one club.

Or, perhaps, Klopp never does return to coaching. He keeps threatening that stance and we'll just have to wait and see if he ultimately calls Liverpool his final club.