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In his first full season as Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp led the club to a fourth place finish and he repeated the following campaign.

His first taste of silverware arrived in 2018-19 when the Reds lifted the Champions League trophy, beating Tottenham in the final - a year on from losing against Real Madrid in the final of the competition.

In 2019-20 Klopp led Liverpool to their first-ever Premier League title, having fallen a point short of champions Manchester City, the season prior, while they also picked up the Uefa Super Cup and Club World Cup.

Liverpool were also close to winning a quadruple in 2021-22.

They ended the season with the FA Cup and League Cup in their cabinet but, Manchester City pipped them in the race for the Premier League title and they lost against Real Madrid in the Champions League final.

Jurgen Klopp has the highest win rate of any manager in Liverpool's history in all competitions (60.7%, in 50 or more games), while he is the only Liverpool manager to win each of the English top flight, European Cup/Champions League, FA Cup, and League Cup with the Reds.

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Jurgen Klopp took charge of Liverpool in October 2015, replacing Brandan Rodgers, with the club sitting 10th in the Premier League following a 1-1 draw at Everton and a sluggish start to the 2015-16 campaign.

It took the German three matches to get his first win, beating Chelsea 3-1 after draws against Tottenham and Southampton.

The Reds went on to finish the season in eighth, while they finished runners-up in the League Cup and Europa League.

After stabilising the club during his first term, Klopp has developed his team into one that has regularly challenged for silverware.

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Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher on X, formerly known as Twitter: "This news was always going to be a body blow to the club whenever it came. I just thought it would be another few years away. What a manager, what a man, let’s go out with a bang Jurgen!"

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More from Jurgen Klopp, who we have been told will be conducting a new conference at 15:00 GMT:

“We will have a moment, maybe the last matchday here or somewhere else – I mean in other countries or other competitions [to say farwell]," Klopp said.

"There’s enough time to do these kinds of things. Let’s now really go for it. The outside world want to use this decision, laugh about it, want to disturb us.

“We are Liverpool, we went through harder things together. And you went through harder things before me.

"Let’s make a strength of it. That would be really cool. Let’s squeeze everything out of this season and have another thing to smile about when we look back in the future.”

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More from Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp on his decision to leave the club at the end of the season: "I have to explain a little bit that maybe the job I do people see from the outside, I’m on the touchline and in training sessions and stuff like this, but the majority of all the things happen around these kind of things.

"That means a season starts and you plan pretty much the next season already. When we sat there together talking about potential signings, the next summer camp and can we go wherever, the thought came up, ‘I am not sure I am here then anymore’ and I was surprised myself by that. I obviously start thinking about it.

“It didn’t start [then], but of course last season was kind of a super-difficult season and there were moments when at other clubs probably the decision would have been, ‘Come on, thank you very much for everything but probably we should split here, or end it here.’ That didn’t happen here, obviously.

“For me it was super, super, super-important that I can help to bring this team back onto the rails. It was all I was thinking about. When I realised pretty early that happened, it’s a really good team with massive potential and a super age group, super characters and all that, then I could start thinking about myself again and that was the outcome. It is not what I want to [do], it is just what I think is 100% right.”

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Jurgen Klopp says he told Liverpool in November of his intention to depart at the end of this season and that his announcement to quit the club has come now to provide clarity and an orderly transition.

“I can understand that it’s a shock for a lot of people in this moment, when you hear it for the first time, but obviously I can explain it – or at least try to explain it," Klopp said.

“I love absolutely everything about this club, I love everything about the city, I love everything about our supporters, I love the team, I love the staff. I love everything. But that I still take this decision shows you that I am convinced it is the one I have to take.

“It is that I am, how can I say it, running out of energy. I have no problem now, obviously, I knew it already for longer that I will have to announce it at one point, but I am absolutely fine now. I know that I cannot do the job again and again and again and again.

“After the years we had together and after all the time we spent together and after all the things we went through together, the respect grew for you, the love grew for you and the least I owe you is the truth – and that is the truth.”

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Liverpool have won the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, EFL Cup, Uefa Super Cup and a Club World Cup since Jurgen Klopp took charge in October 2015.

However, he will bring the curtain down on a eight-and-a-half-year managerial reign at Anfield this summer.

The 56-year-old's contract at Anfield was due to run until 2026.

Assistant managers Pepijn Lijnders and Peter Krawietz, as well as elite development coach Vitor Matos, will also leave their positions at the end of the season, with Lijnders keen to pursue his own career in management.

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Jürgen Klopp will step down as Liverpool manager at the end of the season.

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Omar Berrada's switch to Manchester United caught football by surprise.

Berrada will take over as United chief executive in the summer after quitting his role as chief operations officer with the City Football Group.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola accepts Berrada will take the knowledge of working with Europe's top club with him to Old Trafford. But he doesn't think it will be quite so easy to replicate City's success.

"Obviously his knowledge goes to United, that’s the reality," said Guardiola.

"When you buy a player from another club you buy the knowledge that this player has had in the past with other managers and team-mates. That is normal.

"We will adapt and adjust and move forward.

"But Kevin de Bruyne is still in Manchester City. De Bruyne will play here. Erling Haaland will play here. So, in the end, it’s not that simple.

"Maybe United think with this person everything is going to change – congratulations. I don’t know if this is going to happen.

"If it does happen then oh my god, they have to make a stand for Omar Berrada because he’d deserve it."

BBC Sport has a dedicated Manchester City page packed with news, analysis and fan views - get it here

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Northern Ireland captain and Rangers midfielder Steven Davis has retired after being sidelined for over a year with a knee injury.

The 39-year-old holds the UK men's international caps record with 140 appearances for Northern Ireland.

Davis scored 13 goals following his Northern Ireland debut in 2005.

"It's a strange sensation but ultimately it has been at the back of my mind given the nature of the injury and my age," he said.

Davis - a boyhood Rangers fan - has not played since sustaining an ACL injury in December 2022.

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Kalvin Phillips has been chatting away on West Ham's club podcast 'Iron Cast' with Chris Scull and former Hammers defender James Collins.

It was a fairly light-hearted conversation but during it the England midfielder said that West Ham manager David Moyes had told him his arrival comes after a two-year pursuit.

Phillips, also admitted that he had spent a recent warm-weather training camp with Manchester City, pining for a January loan move to get some games under his belt.

"It’s been a whirlwind few days but I am here and ready to play and give everything for the team," Phillips said.

"While I was in Abu Dhabi with City in a warm weather training camp and all I could think about was getting a loan sorted. I spoke to David Moyes over the phone and he reassured me that this was probably the best place to come and I’ll love every minute of it.

"David Moyes told me that he’d been after me for two years. If City had not have come in for me 18 months ago West Ham would have been the club I came to."

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We've seen fewer deals at this stage of a January window than normal.

Simply put, clubs are having to work with what they’ve got. The financial regularities mean nobody wants to get any points deducted, so everybody must be sailing very close, unless there’s a bit of trading to do.

Generally you see one go and then things move around, but it’s heavily looking like just loan deals.

If you ask the bulk of managers if they would bring reinforcements in then they would. I don’t think there’s many who would say they wouldn’t take at least another player. It’s in everyone’s nature to do so. They may say they are not bothered out loud, but do you really believe it?

What can be done? Teams have players missing across the board and it’s a high number of injuries for this time of the season. But it all comes down to the Financial Fair Play regulations.

Would Nottingham Forest go and try and do a bit? Probably. We know Gary O’Neil at Wolves would love to do stuff, but he’s governed by what he can move around in order to bring in.

Then you have the bottom three. They have to strengthen wherever possible but their hands are also tied. It’s tough what they can get over the line.

Michael Brown was speaking to BBC Sport's Katie Stafford

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Chelsea's January 2023 deadline-day capture of 22-year-old Enzo Fernandez for £107m smashed the British transfer record - previously the £100m Manchester City paid for Jack Grealish in 2021

Has the Premier League spending bubble burst?

The past three transfer windows - January 2023 and the summers of 2022 and 2023 - have each set new Premier League spending records, with £100m players being traded and Chelsea dominating the headlines.

But with one week to go until transfer deadline day on Thursday, 1 February, just 11 players have been signed by Premier League clubs, while disclosed fees amount to£45.4m.

At the same stage of the winter transfer window in 2023, there had been 26 signings made by Premier League clubs, of which 21 deals were permanent.

Of the fees that were disclosed, top-flight clubs spent at leas t£352.2m, before add-ons, by this stage last year, with seven days to go.

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