My night in the pub with the legend who rebuilt Liverpool: OLIVER HOLT 株 a drink with Jurgen Klopp in his 地元の ahead of his Anfield 別れの（言葉，会）

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Inside the Liverpool Jurgen Klopp called home as his magical Merseyside 小旅行する comes to an end

That summed up so much about Klopp and the team he built at Anfield and its 拒絶 to give up and his planned 大混乱 and the way it thrust an 対抗者 into a 宙返り／暴落する-drier and churned it around so that it did not know what had 攻撃する，衝突する it.

But now he has only one game left ? against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Anfield on Sunday afternoon. There is no way around it and no turning 支援する. These are the last days and nights of Jurgen Klopp on Merseyside and for him, and for Liverpool 支持者s, it is a time of goodbyes and a time to say thank you.

He has spent the last week making sure that he does everything 権利 by the people who mean something to him. The day before his night at The Freshfield, he 提起する／ポーズをとるd for a 別れの（言葉，会） picture with hundreds of Liverpool club staff, and a collection of the トロフィーs the team has won under his leadership, in the Main Stand at Anfield.

It has been, he said, ‘the most 激しい week of my life’, and on this Wednesday night at The Freshfield, he is hosting a casual dinner in the pub’s restaurant for friends and 同僚s from the club’s in-house television 駅／配置する, who have worked closely with him and travelled 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the world with him for a long time.

The Manchester 部隊d-Newcastle 部隊d match is 広げるing on the five or six television 審査するs 駅／配置するd around the pub but Klopp does not watch it. 部隊d may have knocked Liverpool off their perch a long, long time ago but Klopp’s 復活 of Liverpool has changed the dynamic in that particular 関係.

And as 部隊d 労働 to a 3-2 victory, Klopp tells stories instead and listens to stories and laughs at ビデオ clips of 祝賀s his friends show him on their phones and 交換（する）s happy reminiscences and wanders through all his yesterdays.

He revels in the company of friends and 同僚s he may not see for s ome time after the Wolves game when he packs up and leaves and begins to 分裂（する） his time between homes in Mainz and Majorca.

He will 行方不明になる Formby, too. The sky gets big up here as the city gives way to the countryside and the beauty of this part of Merseyside takes your breath away. Klopp has made the village his home for all but the first few months of his time here and when his dog, Emma, was alive, he and his wife, Ulla took long walks with her through the pine 支持を得ようと努めるd that stand between Formby and the coast.

The German 経営者／支配人 has formed an unbreakable 社債 with the city over his nine-year 任期

There is a 聖域 for tawny フクロウs here and for natterjack toads and for red squirrels and for 首相 League 経営者／支配人s. Klopp felt as if it were a 避難所 from the relentless 圧力 of the 職業. The other place where he has always felt able to relax is The Freshfield, a friendly, elegant, country pub on the 郊外s of the village.’

‘We started coming here because they 許す dogs,’ Klopp says as he stands on the patio at the 支援する of the pub, next to the car park. ‘I love it here. Nobody cares when they see me. When Stevie (Gerrard) was looking for work, いつかs I’d walk through the pub and hear someone call out to me and it’d be him. We’d sit 負かす／撃墜する and watch a game.’

He laughs when he is told I went to visit his old office at the club’s former training ground at Melwood earlier in the day, now home to Liverpool’s women’s 味方する. The office has been 分裂（する） into two but the windows still look out over the pitches where Phil Thompson and Kevin Keegan and Kenny Dalglish and Alan Hansen and Mo Salah and Virgil 先頭 Dijk and all the 広大な／多数の／重要なs of this club once trained. Klopp loved that 見解（をとる） and that link with the club’s history.

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Of course, some people do want to have their picture taken with him. And Klopp 強いるs every one, talking to them like they’re his friends, too. A few guys from Norway, who had decided to go on a Klopp 巡礼の旅 before his last game and visit the pub, cannot believe their 注目する，もくろむs when they see him. He spends ten minutes chatting with them like they are old friends.

A group of students from Manchester ? 部隊d fans - approach him. He has his picture taken with them 同様に and they tell him their car has broken 負かす／撃墜する. Perhaps there is a metaphor there, too. Klopp is still all smiles and bonhomie. It feels as if the 負わせる of the world is 落ちるing 徐々に from his shoulders.

One other thing is obvious: Klopp has designed this evening as a thank you to his 同僚s but it is soon 明らかな that they want to thank him, too. They want to thank him for everything he has done for them and everything he has done for the club. Leaning against one of the 議長，司会を務めるs, there is a collage of photos that has been 現在のd to Klopp. It is decorated with big letters that （一定の）期間 out: Danke Jurgen.

One of his friends says his 別れの（言葉，会）s and tells Klopp he has had the same 衝撃 as Shankly. Klopp quickly demurs and says that is not true. But Klopp is wrong about that. Shankly was the one who built Liverpool. That is true. But Klopp rebuilt it.

Klopp put Liverpool 支援する on their pedestal. He re-設立するd the club as a 巨大（な） of European football. He won a first 国内の 肩書を与える for 30 years. For so many Liverpudlians, the pride in their city is interwoven with the pride in their club. The club 代表するs the city. It is an 外交官／大使 for the city all over the world.

And Klopp has 回復するd their pride in the club and the city. Of all the 経営者／支配人s who have followed Shankly, both in style and 教祖的指導力 and in his 関係 with the fans, Klopp 似ているs him the most.

Jurgen Klopp will take his place の中で the 広大な／多数の／重要な 経営者／支配人s in Liverpool illustrious history

Liverpool fans look on in 前線 of a Jurgen Klopp, 経営者／支配人 of Liverpool mural 事前の to the 首相 League match between Liverpool and Burnley in February

Klopp has (1)偽造する／(2)徐々に進むd an unshakable 社債 with the city the Liverpool during his time at Anfield

There is already a mural of Klopp 近づく Anfield, of course, but more 尊敬の印s will be created to him and they will stand the 実験（する） of time, just as the 尊敬の印s to Shankly are still dotted around the city.

There is a Victorian pub in the Dingle 地区 of Liverpool, handsome and mournfully august, its upper 床に打ち倒す windows 取って代わるd by sheets of plyboard, which used to be a popular 会合 place for dockers, labourers and wagon drivers in the city’s heyday.

地元のs still know it as The 不死鳥／絶品 but it is called Wilson’s Tavern now and I went there myself more than 30 years ago as a news reporter for the Daily 地位，任命する, sent to try to find a villain who had absconded while on 保釈（金）. My timid questions met only with blank 星／主役にするs.

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There was one 顧客 in there when I paid a visit for old time’s sake last week and he was nursing a pint of Guinness and playing cribbage with the landlady but I noticed something about that little pub at the 最高の，を越す of bluffs that rise up from the River Mersey that I had not noticed all those １０年間s ago.

On the 塀で囲む 近づく the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業, hanging from a 中心存在 in pride of place, as if it were a picture of the King or Queen, someone to nod to every morning when you open up, there is a photograph of a man in a grey 控訴 and a （土地などの）細長い一片d tie strangely familiar from old 黒人／ボイコット and white television 外見s. The photograph is more than 60 years old. It is a photograph of Shankly.

The memory of the man who built Liverpool Football Club into one of the 広大な／多数の／重要な 力／強力にするs of English football still 燃やすs brightly in this proud city and the statue of him outside Anfield, his 武器 outstretched, his 握りこぶしs clenched, a fan’s scarf around his neck, 布告するs ‘He made the people happy’.

A new 立ち往生させる of iconography is 存在 woven into the city’s tapestry, too. On the way 支援する into the city from the Dingle, there is a billboard on the 立ち往生させる in 前線 of the Albert ドッキングする／減らす／ドックに入れる that was conceived by the 遂行するd and popular Liverpool podcast, The Anfield 包む.

The billboard is painted red and Klopp, who has one more day left in the 職業 he has graced for nine years, 星／主役にするs out from one end of it. At the other end, a 宣告，判決 reads: ‘Jurgen reminded us of who we’ve always been.’

The German guided Liverpool to the club's sixth European Cup after a 2-0 勝利，勝つ over Tottenham

After he leaves the club, Klopp will surely continue to be immortalised around the city

It was here on the 立ち往生させる that Klopp appeared at the 長，率いる of two triumphal parades - celebrating a sixth European Cup victory in 2019 and winning the League Cup and FA Cup in 2022 - like Julius Caesar returning to Rome after a 勝利を得た （選挙などの）運動をする, ゆらめくs turning the sky 血-red and hundreds of thousands of fans lining the streets.

But on Wednesday night, to find Klopp, you had to 長，率いる away from the 立ち往生させる, and 運動 north up Waterloo Road, past the impressive hulk of the new Everton stadium at Bramley-Moore ドッキングする／減らす／ドックに入れる, past the 爆撃するs of derelict 倉庫／問屋s, past the 精油所s and the 巨大（な） cranes of the Port of Liverpool, flashing red in the 不明瞭 to the 辛勝する／優位 of the city, to The Freshfield.

When I say my goodbyes, we laugh a little about his 関係 with the マスコミ, a 主題 he revisits on Friday morning. ‘It was never personal,’ he tells one reporter he had once upbraided in a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会, ‘even when it seemed pretty personal. I am at peace with all of you. If this was a room 十分な of 審判（をする）s, I might not say the same.’

And then he makes one last request, 目的（とする）d at helping his 後継者. ‘When you look 支援する,’ he says, ‘do not make me too big.’ I 運動 out of the car park at The Freshfield and look 支援する at the pub. The patio is still busy, the party is still going on and Jurgen Klopp is still wringing every last second out of his life.