WE all lost the run of ourselves last Friday when news broke Jurgen Klopp was leaving Liverpool.

When you think of all the things that’s happening in the world, the mainstream media headlined many of their bulletins and dedicated an inordinate amount of time to a football manager quitting his position.

Liverpool fans would tell you that the charismatic German is no ordinary manager. And he isn’t - he’s an absolutely brilliant manager who, I suppose, has raised the esteem of an entire city – or at least the red half.

There was a deep sense of mourning among the club’s supporters that after nine years their leader, their totem, the man who guided them to the Promised Land by delivering a Champions League title and the club’s first Premier League title in 30 years was leaving.

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While many news editors got carried away with Klopp-mania last week, there is no doubting the man’s greatness.

Pep Guardiola, his respected adversary dating back to their Bundesliga days with Bayern Munch and Borussia Dortmund, may have won more silverware – but Klopp is the better manager of the two.

Comparisons are always a subjective business, but counting the silverware each man has won is too........

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