Jurgen Klopp has been appointed Liverpool's new manager on a three-year deal worth £15m. The 48-year-old German replaces Brendan Rodgers, who was sackedon Sunday after three and a half years in charge with the club 10th in the Premier League. Klopp has been out of work since May, when he ended a seven-year spell at Borussia Dortmund to take a sabbatical. He will earn £5m a year, rising to £7m with bonuses, and will hold a news conference at 10:00 BST on Friday. Klopp is expected to bring Zeljko Buvac and Peter Krawietz - his former assistants at the Bundesliga club - to Anfield. Sean O'Driscoll, who was Rodgers' assistant, has left the club, while Gary McAllister has been moved from first-team coach to a new "ambassadorial position". After seven years as Mainz boss, Klopp joined Dortmund in 2008 and led them to two Bundesliga titles. They lost to Wolfsburg in last season's German Cup final - his final game - at the end of a campaign in which they struggled domestically, finishing seventh in the league. Klopp takes over a Liverpool side who have won only four of their 11 games in all competitions this season. The international break means his first game in charge is a trip to Tottenham in the Premier League on 17 October. Klopp will have to work within the existing structure and what has become known asAnfield's 'transfer committee'. It is the group that plans and carries out transfer strategy and up until Sunday night consisted of Rodgers, scouts Dave Fallows and Barry Hunter, the man in charge of analysis Michael Edwards, FSG's Anfield representative Mike Gordon and chief executive Ian Ayre. Northern Irishman Rodgers, who took over in June 2012, led the Reds to second place in the Premier League in 2013-14. please log in to view this image http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34469429
First time in a while where we've just gone all out and paid highly for top quality. First it starts with the manager, then the players follow. Carrol was high but that only came from the Torres transfer so we wouldn't of ever paid that fee. Torres wasn't that expensive. Suarez was a bargain. Benteke is high but again we've paid money for a guaranteed premier league striker (hopefully) I love the set up of buying taken but when quality players are availed you have to break the bank to get them.
Can't believe he'd have took the job if he hadn't sorted the **** out about the "committee", his knowledge and pull with better players(mainly German)will give us a new dimension when targeting transfers.
Klopps managing style is suited to the Premier League, he will do really well for you guys. Fantastic appointment and superb addition to the EPL.
...... Shanks took good players and made great teams out of them. It was, and still is, a team game- a fact often lost in today's era of inflated egos.
Unless you have Messi in your team... then you could have Gerrez on the wing, you and RHC at CB and Wishi in goal and still win more trophies than most teams
A lot on here won't like it but Fergie did it too. They didn't have the best squad for the last title or two they won but they had the best team.
Two of the five names you mentioned can play, RHC*, Saint* and Minxy* aren't any of them *assumption based on age and/or sexuality
