Jurgen Klopp has welcomed Arne Slot’s declaration that he wants to succeed him as Liverpool manager by saying he is impressed with the football the Feyenoord manager plays and his desire to get the job.
So Jurgen Klopp will leave the Premier League with a place alongside Manuel Pellegrini, Claudio Ranieri, Roberto Mancini and Antonio Conte. Carlo Ancelotti and Kenny Dalglish, too, and they are company he will probably deem a compliment.
Here in the final stretch of Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool love affair, you feel you are witnessing everything for the last time. With 24 days left, all is freeze-framed for posterity: his last Merseyside derby,
Jurgen Klopp's nearly nine years at Liverpool have been filled with memorable milestones but an unwanted first of his reign leaves his final few weeks at Anfield with little left to play for.AFP Sport looks at what has gone wrong to leave Klopp's fitting farewell at risk of fizzling out.