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Jurgen Klopp not planning to leave Borussia Dortmund at end of season

Jurgen Klopp has said that his job at Borussia Dortmund is not yet complete and that he plans to stay at the club beyond the summer.

Ahead of the restart of the Bundesliga this weekend, struggling Dortmund are still looking to rediscover some form. On Saturday, BVB drew 1-1 with second-tier side Fortuna Dusseldorf in a friendly, and took their total tally of goals during their winter preparation to just four in four games.

Dortmund also lost Ilkay Gundogan in the match, who was substituted after sustaining muscular problems less than 30 minutes in. It is currently still unclear whether the midfielder will be available for Klopp at third-placed Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday.

BVB are currently sitting in the Bundesliga's relegation zone, and Klopp insists climbing to safety is the main priority for his side at the moment.

"We should not focus everything on the first match at Leverkusen," Klopp told Die Welt. "Our starting position is clear: we are four points behind the zone we want to be at the end of the season."

With the bottom half of the table currently only separated by four points, Klopp remains confident that Dortmund will survive come the end of the campaign.

"We see our perspective and we know we can solve that situation," he said.

Klopp has come under fire from sections of the German media during the first half of the season, but has never once been questioned by his club.

"The good thing is that the club was not divided. Under normal circumstances there would have been spats, discussion over the quality of the players or it is said that the coach no longer has it. But nothing has happened," Klopp said. "It makes me proud to be part of a club which has braved the usual mechanisms."

Asked about when the ideal day to end his stint at Dortmund would be, Klopp ruled out leaving at the end of the season.

"Ideally that's a day when BVB are a perfectly healthy club, have money coming out of their ears and can buy every player they want to buy," he added. "And a club which has been really successful a few times until then."

Meanwhile, Der Spiegel has claimed that the crisis at the club is a mental problem and that the squad are in the middle of an identity crisis, with the old Dortmund, which won back-to-back Bundesliga titles in 2011 and 2012, now gone forever.

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