‘We didn’t recognise ourselves as doubters – but Jurgen Klopp changed our ways’

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A whole new world was opening up in front of us and we were about to get the Liverpool we deserved, the Liverpool that history demands of itself. ‘Doubters to believers’ has since taken on iconic connotations of its own but we hadn’t truly recognised ourselves as doubters in the first place, we had just become comfortable enough with accepting mediocrity. We had five European Cups proudly sitting in our museum and, although the league title had eluded us since 1990, we had punched above our weight on more than one occasion and gone as close as it is possible to get.

We have been there and done it and, even when the going gets tough, we continually show ourselves to be capable of mixing it with the best. We had got the fella we wanted and it looked for all the world like this would be the perfect fit at the perfect time, but what if this was it?

What if we’d got exactly what we needed and even he couldn’t be the one to do it? In four years, Brendan Rodgers was never able to earn the level of devotion Klopp pocketed within five minutes, but he did give us an excuse to believe we could do the unthinkable and that was all we really wanted from the opening weeks here.