For the first time in eight seasons, Liverpool will have a new manager for the beginning of the following season. Finding the perfect replacement for Jürgen Klopp has become a significant issue for FSG after his departure.

Naturally, that moment would arrive in the upcoming seasons, but rumors circulated that he was more likely to extend his contract past 2026 than to go away two years before it ended. In retrospect, at least Klopp was spared the incessant questioning regarding his length of stay because the contract extension was longer than necessary.

Klopp has decided the time is right to move on and it is undoubtedly a big job for whoever it is that comes in after him. But the German has done his best to set things up as best he can for that person, and he is predicting positive things.

“My responsibility was so big that my idea was always to put everything in place to help with everything that this club gets stronger and stronger, and we did that not to perfection but as good as we could,” Klopp said during the press conference he held on Friday. “So many people work here with only one idea: to find a perfect solution for Liverpool and I am pretty sure that will happen.

“This team is set up for the future. When I said Liverpool 2.0 that didn’t include me obviously for the next 10 years but the team is there, the basis is there. Whoever comes in cannot give anybody a guarantee to win trophies but can give a good chance to play really good football. That’s fine.

“They will get a top manager here; there will be good football. What we all learned and improved and did in the last few years, changing from doubters to believers and staying believing in difficult moments, if we keep all that, then it is a wonderful future ahead. That is all I want and I don’t want to be the passenger who is disturbing that process.”

Liverpool.com says: It is a remarkably bigger picture view from Klopp to see things in such a way. But he is right: the building blocks are in place for whoever comes in. Someone had to do it eventually but it makes sense for it to be done before he feels it is too late. An interesting few months lie ahead but Liverpool will have had enough time to put plans in place.