Jonathan Liew: This may be Klopp's greatest act of faith

He won cups and improved players but most of all the German knew that what matters most is how football makes you feel

FEARLESS LEADER: Jurgen Klopp, who will stand down as Liverpool manager at the end of the season. Pic: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

To the very end, Jürgen Klopp’s sense of theatre never left him. 

The little pregnant pause at the start of the video where he announces his departure, when everyone knows what’s coming but still wants to hear him say it out of his own mouth. The way his voice cracks and breaks. The way he stares straight down the camera, so you can’t look away. And of course the immaculate timing, the disorienting flourish, a sense of pure shock that will reverberate through the last four months of this season. One last mind game.