Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insists he will not be patrolling the touchline into his old age like 68-year-old Arsene Wenger as he does not need football to be happy.

The Arsenal boss has announced he will step down at the end of the season, ending a 22-year reign at the club.

Klopp, who has a six-year contract which runs until 2022, has no intention of staying on anywhere close to Wenger’s tenure.

In a television interview this week, the 50-year-old said he did not want to die on the touchline and when asked to expand on that he said: “Because of age.

“I love what I do and I enjoy it but it’s intense – but most jobs are intense. The big differenceis we are constantly in the focus.

“Do I need the fact that I am famous? No. I don’t need it a bit. It’s not that I feel that specialbut it happens and I’d be really happy if it stops one day.

“If no-one remembers me, that’s not a problem. That’s a dream for me.

“We get really well paid so that’s OK, we can have the life we never dreamed of but I don’t wantto have this life and I cannot walk any more.

“I have back problems in the morning and neck problems when I wake up but life is not only for that.

“I don’t need football to be happy. At the moment I love it, but I don’t need it."

The big football news this morning has been Wenger's decision to step down, and Klopp has reacted during his press conference.

“First of all, I heard it when I came in this morning. I was surprised but it’s his decision, first of all we have to respect that and I have no problem with respecting that,” Klopp said.

“Today we could probably say he was, and is still, an influencer in football. He has a fantastic career, outstanding personality, [he’s] just a really big player in that business. We usually change overnight and he was there for so long, 22 years - that’s long!

“[He has been] very, very successful, that’s how it is. Maybe in the last few months not everybody was happy anymore about this or that result, but that’s normal and part of the business. But he always developed teams, brought fantastic players in, was a dominating guy in the mid-90s, early 2000s when he was really winning pretty much everything and played wonderful football.

“I admired his work always, it was always brilliant. Since I’ve been in England it’s a little bit different because now we have to challenge them, of course, but from Germany he was always a big, big role model in that job.

“It will be different without him. I’m not sure if he steps back at Arsenal or he will go to another club - he looks quite fit, obviously, and he enjoyed the job I think, even in the last few years, so maybe he will go somewhere else.

“But from my side I wish him all the best, and hopefully I can meet him at one point again and tell him that in a personal talk.”