Manager and club are perfect fit and will be hoping for a suitable ending to his tenure as they chase silverware on four fronts

It would go down as one of Jürgen Klopp’s most famous lines and it served to project him to a wider and increasingly captivated audience. It was November 2013 and the spotlight was on the superstar Borussia Dortmund manager, who had his admirers everywhere but especially in England.

Manchester City and Chelsea had wanted him in the summer of that year and now he was preparing to host Arsenal, another Premier League club who had him on their radar, in a Champions League group game. Many Arsenal supporters considered Klopp as the ideal successor to Arsène Wenger which, as an aside, reminds us of the drawn-out nature of the latter’s endgame. The Frenchman would not depart until 2018.

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