Liverpool now have their man in Juergen Klopp and the honeymoon begins in earnest. It’s a good hiring for Liverpool, one that should restore their European credentials and maybe reintroduce a bit of fun into what has become a poker-faced club in recent years.
Klopp didn’t have many rivals for the job, because the pool of top-line managers is become a bit shallow. The same names get thrown into the ring whenever a major job comes up, but Klopps’s appointment may be the first of a number of deck-chairs shuffling around among the top clubs in England.