Mo Salah, beware: 9 players that flopped after leaving Jurgen Klopp

Jurgen Klopp is one of the best managers in the world and recently signed a new deal to keep him at Liverpool until 2026 but, despite being adored by fans and players alike, he has sold some top-class players over the years.

We’re not sure why anyone would ever voluntarily trade his coaching for someone else, but a fair number of players in the past have forced moves away from the German and massively regretted their decisions.

Mohamed Salah should take note: the grass is not always greener, and those playing at a high level in Klopp’s gegenpressing machine have often struggled elsewhere.

We’ve listed nine players who were fantastic under the tutelage of the 54-year-old at Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool who then struggled to replicate that form after leaving.

Gotze was arguably a generational talent when he broke through at Borussia Dortmund under Klopp, but the then 20-year old committed an act of treason by agreeing a £35million move to Bayern Munich during the 2012-13 season.

Dortmund would go on to lose to Bayern in the Champions League final, with Gotze conveniently ‘injured’, but his time in Munich was ultimately a disappointment.

Despite scoring the winner in the World Cup final a year after his move, Gotze never truly found his form away from Dortmund, and returned to the club three years later with his tail between his legs.

Now at PSV Eindhoven, the 29-year-old is a case of unfulfilled potential and his career could have panned out so differently had he not abandoned Klopp’s team of young superstars at Dortmund.

One of Klopp’s biggest masterstrokes was selling Philippe Coutinho to Barcelona for around £140million.

While the Brazilian was a star at Liverpool, they used his transfer fee to sign Virgil Van Dijk