I am now a Jurgen Klinsmann fan — through the weekend anyway.

His name has come up, albeit peripherally, as a candidate for the manager’s job at Liverpool, but we can’t have the coach of the U.S. national team losing to Mexico at the Rose Bowl this weekend in the playoff for a berth at the Confederations Cup in Russia in 2017.

So, go, Jurgen!

Give us another dollop of that voodoo that you do so well. Whatever it is. Say silly, confusing things, denigrate Major League Soccer, find another guy who is willing to get an American passport, since the German national team won’t take him.

Please, do not do whatever it was you were doing during over the summer in the Gold Cup, when the U.S. national team may have reached its lowest ebb since France 1998. (Fourth place? Really?)

Instead, say whatever it is you say to people like Sunil Gulati that makes people think you’re a smart man and a swell guy.

An alternate look at this?

My co-workers at The National may have been messing with me.

I had not heard Klinsmann was any sort of candidate for the Liverpool job, left vacant on Sunday when Brendan Rodgers was fired.

But my co-workers also know I loathe Jurgen Klinsmann and want him gone before he inflicts even more damage on U.S. soccer … and that adding him to the “candidates” list would allow me to enjoy a glimmer of hope that perhaps we could foist the boyish German on to Fenway Sports Group, owners of Liverpool.

And there he was, on a list of five coaches who could replace … Brendan Rodgers! Right there in The National, model of journalistic sobriety.

Somebody was talking, perhaps even while sober, about Jurgen taking over at Liverpool? Oh, be still, my beating heart.

Now, granted, the other four guys we had on the list ranged from over-qualified to mega-qualified: Jurgen Klopp, formerly of Dortmund; Carlo Ancelotti, formerly of every major European side; and a couple of rising Dutch guys who probably would do well there, Frank de Boer of Ajax and Ronald Koeman of Southampton.

And in the fifth position … The Wrong Jurgen … Klinsmann.

When I got to the office, I asked one of the guys what the rumors were, really, about Klinsmann being a candidate, and one Tottenham fan said: “Well, if about 10 guys turn down the job …”

Which is a bit of a damper on my dream of seeing Klinsmann introduced to the media at Anfield early next week, despite that messy episode with Bayern Munich … but still. The job isn’t filled yet.

I am pretty sure, however, that he will not be hired if he contrives to lose to Mexico in the Rose Bowl, on Saturday, allowing Mexico to make the dry-run in Russia in the summer of 2017, instead of the U.S.

So, I have to grit my teeth and root for Jurgen and his merry band of German-Americans in the encounter versus El Tri … where a week ago I would have said “need to lose that game, maybe push Klinsmann over the edge”.

Go, Jurgen! Go … right on over to England!