DFB Vice President Ralph-Uwe Schaffert has revealed why they cannot ever move for Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, by exposing the huge sums that the German earns at Anfield.
That’s according to Focus Online, who cover comments from Schaffert in a recent interview with Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung.
Klopp has regularly been linked with the Germany job down the years after initially shining at Borussia Dortmund and then moving to Liverpool, where he’s won the Premier League, Champions League and several other trophies.
Many saw Klopp as the ideal man to take charge for such an event, with some even suggesting he should be put in temporary charge of his nation before a long-term successor was put in place.
That never seemed to be a likely scenario, though, particularly after Klopp signed an extension to his Liverpool deal in April last year that extended his stay to 2026.
It wasn’t that which stopped Germany from making their move, though, at least according to Schaffert, who says that money was the major motivator.
“The DFB can’t pay Jürgen Klopp at all, he earns a fixed €24m a year plus €26m guaranteed advertising income – so €50m,” he said.
“It’s all gone through the roof so much that it’s almost impossible to reduce it. It has to be less. With Nagelsmann it has already become less.”
