Klopp at Liverpool, Season 5: Deliverance of a dream and a party with an unwelcome difference

This is the fifth part in our series charting Jurgen Klopp’s nine seasons at Liverpool from his 2015 arrival to his upcoming departure from Anfield.

By winning the Champions League in 2019, Jurgen Klopp dispelled any lingering barbs about him being a ‘nearly man’ at Liverpool, although the anguish of missing out on the Premier League title by a solitary point (even after gaining 97) left an itch which needed to be scratched.

It was a sign of how content the German was with his squad that...