The BVB boss will step aside in the summer
after seven success-laden years in charge at th
Westfalenstadion


Borussia Dortmund have confirmed that Jurgen
Klopp will leave the club this summer.
The former Mainz boss took the reins at BVB in
the summer of 2008 and led the club to an
extraordinary period of success, winning two
Bundesliga titles and a DFB Pokal, as well as
reaching the Champions League final.
However, the Westfalenstadion club have
struggled this year and sit a lowly 10th in the
league and the 47-year-old will step aside at the
season's end, despite having three years left to
run on his contract.
"Borussia Dortmund and coach Jurgen Klopp
have agreed to an early termination of their
contract, which originally ran to June 2018," a
club statement read.
Speaking at a press conference, CEO Hans-
Joachim Watzke revealed that the coach had
held talks with the club on the subject over the
last few days and paid tribute to Klopp.
"We had some talks on Jurgen's initiative and
then made the decision that the way we have
been working together incredible success over
the past seven years comes to an end at the
end of the season.
"We have a relationship that is built on trust and
friendship. Therefore it is obviously a difficult
situation for us.
"Jurgen, you can be sure that you have the
eternal gratitude of BVB. "
Klopp, meanwhile, insisted that he should not
have anyone's gratitude and revealed that he fel
that it was the right time to step aside.
"No one should be grateful to me. It is a very fai
history in which both sides have given and
taken," he said.
"As I have said several times in recent years, I
always wanted to let the club know if I didn't
believe that I was the perfect coach for this
extraordinary job.
"In the last few days and weeks I've not been
sure that I'm the right person. But even I
couldn't answer this question properly. Therefor
I felt dutybound to myself and Watzke to be
honest.
"I am sure that this is absolutely the right
decision. This team deserves to have a 100 per
cent coach on the touchline.
"It's not that I'm tired. I haven't had any contact
form another club in England or anywhere else.
But I don't intend to have a sabbatical ear. It's
just important that we annouce it today so that
everyone can adjust to it and the club can plan.
"I believe that Borussia Dortmund actually need
change. A major problem is certainly that as lon
as I'm here, we're always considering the
successes of the past."
Thomas Tuchel has been installed as the early
favourite to replace Klopp at Signal Iduna Park



source:

www.goal.com/en-ng/news/4076/germany/2015/04/15/10788862/klopp-to-leave-dortmund

so sad