Jurgen Klopp is coming back to Anfield this weekend for a legends match against Borussia Dortmund. His old house, meanwhile, is still waiting for someone to take it off Liverpool's hands.
The six-bedroom mansion on 'Millionaire's Row' in Freshfield, Formby has been reduced from £4.25m to £4m and still hasn't sold. The property has been part of Liverpool's furniture for over two decades — Brendan Rodgers lived there, Steven Gerrard moved in back in 2005 — but when Arne Slot arrived last summer and turned it down, the club had no choice but to put it on the open market.
A house that carries more history than most clubs
Seven bathrooms, a swimming pool with sauna, four reception rooms, and a separate entertainment building with a spa and gym. For £4m in Merseyside, it's not exactly hard to see why Rightmove's Tim Bannister told the BBC it was one of the site's most viewed properties of 2024. People are fascinated by it. They're just not buying it.
Which is a fairly neat metaphor for Liverpool's current season, if you're feeling poetic about it.
Slot's debut campaign was near-flawless — the club's 20th top-flight title, a Dutchman instantly winning over a fanbase that worshipped his predecessor. This season has been a different story. Inconsistent form, top-four battles, and the kind of pressure that tends to build quietly before it doesn't.
The Klopp question hovering in the background
Klopp, now Head of Global Soccer at Red Bull since January 2025, hasn't shut the door on a return. Asked directly last year, he said: "I said I will never coach a different team in England, so that means, if [I did return], then it's Liverpool. So, yeah, theoretically it is possible."
That quote will get louder the longer Liverpool's form stays patchy. And if the board moves on from Slot this summer, Klopp's name will be first on every shortlist — which would make his old address relevant again for reasons beyond property listings.
For now, the mansion sits empty. Nine trophies worth of memories, a price tag that's already been cut once, and no takers.
