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The embryonic Champions League table, after two rounds, looks good for his former clubs, with Dortmund top and Liverpool fifth: less so for two who will now occupy his time, with Leipzig 29th and Red Bull Salzburg, under Pep Lijnders, 34th out of 36 teams.

And now Klopp, as the protests at Mainz indicate, is linking up with Leipzig.

“I don’t see myself on the sideline anymore but I still love football and working and Red Bull gives me the perfect platform for that,” Klopp said.



In 2019, with the air of a man who thought a chief executive was something to be, Liverpool chairman Tom Werner said Klopp could be “a world-class CEO for any company in the world”.

And the inconvenient reality for Klopp’s new critics may be that the Red Bull stable of clubs, Leipzig and Salzburg in particular, come from the same footballing school of thought as Dortmund and Liverpool.



Jurgen Klopp at Borussia Dortmund’s Signal Iduna Park in September (Getty Images)

At Liverpool, Klopp raided the Red Bull stable: Dominik Szoboszlai, Ibrahima Konate and Naby Keita came from Leipzig.

“I’m not a socialist but I come from there and I understand life like that,” he said in May.

Jurgen Klopp embraces Virgil van Dijk after his final match in charge of Liverpool (Getty Images)

In one respect, he was a successor to Bill Shankly.