Jurgen Klopp: Alex Ferguson is the ‘John Lennon of football’

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has likened his first meeting with Manchester United as Liverpool manager on Sunday as being “a bit like Dortmund v Schalke” but he is well aware the stakes are far higher.

He met with former United boss Sir Alex Ferguson a few years ago – the same man who last month said he was worried by the German’s arrival at Anfield because of where he could take the Merseysiders – and it is something Klopp has never forgotten.