"It's great but did anyone make a story that they have all come back because I am leaving?" Klopp laughed. "It was really not because of me. It's nothing. You can ask Michael Edwards if he will speak in public, but our work together was really, really good.
"We worked well together and Richard Hughes, who I know, is a great, great guy. I liked the signings a lot. Who the club is bringing in, I like them all. We have a good team, a really good manager is coming in and we have all these guys too. The club is in good hands.
"People might worry about the future but I am not worried about the future and I really want the club to do well. I am not worried about the future. It is not that I am thinking: 'My God, how will that all go?' No, no. It is fine.
"But they will have to do it themselves and speak about themselves, I cannot judge the people on the way out saying 'I am not sure about that'. That would be really horrendous. I really like what they are doing. Yes there are a lot of changes, staff-wise but that is how it is. We are all fine.
"You work in football and then normally after a year or two you move on, next club. But we were privileged, we really feel that, to be able to do that for this long at this outstanding club.
"I see it like that, Pep (Lijnders), Johnny (Achterberg), Pete (Krawietz), Vitor Matos, we all see it like this. For such a long time, it was an honour and a privilege and now the next ones can do it."