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Jurgen Klopp left Liverpool last year a legend at Anfield after nearly a decade of success on Merseyside with the Reds.

The German manager helped Liverpool return to the top of the European game as Klopp led the English giants to their first Premier League title as well as a UEFA Champions League triumph in 2019, creating one of the best teams in recent memory in the process.

With Gary Lineker praising Klopp for the state Liverpool were left in after his departure, the now head of football at Red Bull gave Arne Slot all the tools needed to thrive as the new manager of the Reds this season, with the Premier League title virtually in the Dutchman’s hands already.

And now it has been revealed how much Liverpool ended up paying out to Klopp and his backroom staff to leave the club at the end of last season.

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Speaking on Walk On, journalist James Pearce shared how accounts showed nearly £10m was paid out to Klopp and his backroom staff last summer, with coaches who were out of contract leaving for nothing alongside the German.

Pearce said when asked about Liverpool’s recent accounts: “Liverpool have already earned an excess of £80m from this [UEFA Champions League] run, potentially rising to beyond £100m, so there was a few things in those accounts that jumped out.

“Liverpool also ended up paying nearly £10m out to Jurgen Klopp and his backroom staff.

The way it was explained to me was that it was payments that were due in terms of loyalty payments, plus the fact that obviously for a number of those staff,

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“Once Klopp had decided he was going, those with time left on their contracts were still able to negotiate severance packages.

John Achterberg and [Andreas] Kornmayer fell into the same category, were out of contract last summer anyway, so they didn’t get payoffs.”

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With Liverpool having to pay a decent amount to allow Klopp and his backroom staff to leave, a similar story can be told by how the Reds went about bringing Slot to Anfield last summer.

As reported by Sky Sports News, Liverpool paid close to £8m in compensation to Feyenoord to recruit Slot, with the Dutch giants also due another £2m in undisclosed add-ons, likely associated to trophies won in a specific timeframe.

Indeed, Liverpool hit the lottery when they decided on Slot to succeed Klopp last year, and the £18m spent to oversee the transfer of power has been paid back and then some with the Premier League title all-but wrapped up.