Jurgen Klopp shunned English clubs over the summer to remain at Dortmund

Despite a mass exodus of key players from Borussia Dortmund in recent seasons, the club’s manager Jurgen Klopp has decidedly shunned the arclights of the Premier League, and even revealed his decision of snubbing English clubs to remain at the relatively humble German club to prolong the exciting project he undertook at Dortmund four years ago.

Klopp was heavily linked to Manchester City and Chelsea over the summer after everything he’s achieved with Dortmund in the last three years, including taking his seemingly unheralded team to the final of the Champions League last year and gatecrashing into Bayern Munich’s hegemonical hold in Bundesliga.

Klopp told The Sun: “There were some English clubs that called and wanted to speak with me. But there was no reason to talk.

“It’s only hard to understand if you always think, ‘I can go to a bigger club’.

“I’m sure you could earn much more money at one or the other English clubs or at a Chinese or Russian club, but it’s not the most important thing.

“If somebody told me two years ago, ‘some time they will you call you’, I would have said, ‘impossible’. And then they called and it was nothing.

“In life you have to be at the right place at the right moment. And I am at the right place at the right moment.”

Klopp was also resigned to the fact that his players would want to leave the club for greener pastures if the right opportunity came knocking at their door.

“Players try to fulfil their dreams,” he added. “I couldn’t have dreams when I was their age. My dream was not to fall down on the pitch.