Even now, I can still hear his finger tap-tap-tapping firmly into the table and feel the intensity that was radiating from him.
The date — Friday, October 9, 2015 — and time — 1.45pm — is unforgotten. Jurgen Klopp had walked into a lounge of Liverpool’s Centenary Stand and immediately you knew things had changed.
Dressed in a black blazer, black shirt, dark denim jeans, sartorially he had the laidback chic of a Californian tech boss and he was blazing in his mission to reboot a listing club.
‘I’m not the guy who is going to shout, “We are going to conquer the world!