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Comparisons to his final season at Borussia Dortmund are almost inevitable - though none are entirely accurate.
The Liverpool boss won the Reds their first league title in 30 years last summer, but this season, for a variety of reasons, they have fallen well behind Manchester City.
And with those players returning too, the idea that this season has seen a repeat of Dortmund’s 2014/15 season at Liverpool is simply only half the story.
Liverpool, quite simply, do not have that same problem.
Unlike at Dortmund, Klopp will still be at Anfield next year even after a turbulent spell.
That summer, though, the Bundesliga side signed Kevin Kampl from Red Bull Salzburg, brought back Shinji Kagawa from Manchester United, and, crucially, replaced Robert Lewandowski with Ciro Immobile.
Immobile’s effectiveness as a forward in that regard essentially was around half of what Lewandowski brought to the team in a number of key statistical areas.
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