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Bayern legend wants Klopp back home after Liverpool's Champions League triumph

Franz Beckenbauer considers the Reds boss to be "one of the world's best" and is hoping to see him take the reins at the Allianz Arena at some stage

Jurgen Klopp is wanted back in Germany by Franz Beckenbauer, with an iconic figure saying of Liverpool’s Champions League-winning boss: “I wish for nothing more than that one day he will come to Bayern”.

A European triumph has seen the 51-year-old’s stock rise once more.

Klopp was already widely regarded as one of the finest coaches in the business, with Beckenbauer placing him among “the world’s best”.