Just one more day until Jürgen Klopp leads out Liverpool for the first time, and the world is abuzz with anticipation. Who is he going to start? Where and how will he ask them to play? And will their opponents Tottenham poop all over the hype-party? That sentence looks a lot more graphic than it’s meant to. Let’s move on.
Looking back at Liverpool’s managerial debuts
On Saturday, Jürgen Klopp will become the eleventh permanent manager since Bill Shankly to send a Liverpool team out to do battle. How did his predecessors get on in their first games? We take a look.
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To prepare, here in reverse order are the lineups and results from every previous Liverpool manager’s first game in charge, going all the way back to Bill Shankly. No, not many of them started off with a win. And yes, we’d forgotten about Milan Jovanovic too.
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