COMMENT: Jurgen Kloppis box-office. And for Liverpool, marks a massive cultural shift.
Forget Sergio Aguero's five goals. Arsenal's thumping of Manchester United. Even Jose Mourinho's crisis at Chelsea. It's all been knocked off the backpages by a German joining a mid-table club. But this could be anything. The union of a sleeping giant like Liverpool and a wild, charismatic coach like Klopp - and on the biggest, global platform in sport? This move could really be transformative for LFC.
And every supporter of the Premier League should be buzzing today. It's crazy, but here's a manager, a German, who will arrive ready to bring back the very best traditions of English football. Klopp doesn't do tippy-tappy. He does passion. Power football. Ball-and-all tackling. Run until you drop. Then run some more. Leave everything on the pitch. All of which we're slowly seeing the Premier League lose.
Klopp also doesn't do clipboards. The German is all inspiration. A pure motivator.
It's telling that the big concern for Klopp from his peers back home is the language barrier. Yes, he speaks good English. But listening to the likes of Ollie Kahn, Peter Neururer and Christoph Daum over the last 24 hours, they're all in agreement. It's not so much the language, but Klopp's behaviour and mannerisms. Can the tub-thumping of the Bundesliga dressing room translate smoothly to the Premier League?
Break it all down - and this is what Klopp is all about. It's heart on your sleeve. What you see is what you get. And he'll be nothing like Kopites have seen at Anfield for over 30 years.
Brendan Rodgers, Roy Hodgson, Rafa Benitez, Gerard Houllier, even Kenny Dalglish... Klopp is the complete opposite. The German is showtime. It's not tactics and systems that are his strength. He can't lean on a great playing record. Klopp is the nearest thing we have of putting a passionate fan in the middle of a millionaires' locker room.
If any Red out there wished they could grab a Dejan Lovren or Alberto Moreno and shake them out of their lethargy, Klopp's your man. Bombastic. Explosive. A complete contrast to any manager Liverpool have seen in the last three decades.
Liverpool will no longer be an after-thought. Yes, there'll be stumbles. Maybe even collapses. But the world will be watching. Liverpool and the Premier League have landed themselves a genuine star name. An idol of German football, who could become an icon of the game.
The irony won't be lost on Javier Tebas, the Spanish Liga president. On the day he was announcing plans of staging games abroad, it was breaking in England that Klopp had verbally agreed terms on a three-year contract. The La Liga, Serie A, Ligue Une, they're all competing with the Premier League for global audience. Knowing Klopp was available and willing to leave the Bundesliga, it's no stretch to suggest League offices across Europe were hoping he'd land in their competition.
Klopp's future now lies in the Premier League. But he doesn't have a magic wand.
It will be exciting to watch how he handles Christian Benteke. Can the new manager see a bit of Robert Lewandowski in the big Belgian? And what of Roberto Firmino? So unfairly pilloried by the Boot Room barely a month into his Premier League career. Will the Brazilian be Klopp's Shinji Kagawa at Liverpool?
However, Klopp will know adrenaline will only take this team so far. There remain problems in key positions. And the leadership vacuum left by Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher cannot be overstated.
But Klopp, for all the fire and charisma, is also a builder. He'll get his hands dirty. Happy to build again from scratch.
Seven years at Mainz and another seven with Borussia Dortmund. Enough time at both former clubs to build and develop history-making teams. At Mainz, he led them to a first Bundesliga promotion. With BVB the Double, knocking the all-conquering Bayern Munich off their perch.
The Kop is with him. Indeed, those on Merseyside say they've never seen the city so united behind a managerial appointment. Over 35,000 fans tracked Klopp's flight online to Liverpool yesterday.
But there's still the question of FSG. Seven years at Mainz and seven at BVB... in less than five years, the Americans have sacked three. Before their arrival, Liverpool had lost two in 12 - and a great chunk of their football culture has since gone.
You hope that by sheer will and personality, this German from Dortmund can restore Liverpool's values.
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