The day Liverpool fans have been dreading since January is almost now upon us.
Most supporters will have accepted the fact that Jurgen Klopp will no longer be their manager next season by now. That’s why Jurgen announced it in plenty of time.
But that doesn’t mean that the pain of that realisation will go away any time soon. We need to be savouring every day until May 19th.
Of course, there is another reason that Sunday next month will be circled large in the calendar of every Liverpool fan. It could still be the day the Reds lift the Premier League trophy. The next few weeks will determine just how big the game at Anfield against Wolves will be.
Either way, it’ll be emotional, as Jurgen gets his big send-off from the club he’s transformed over the last nine years. There’ll be tears, for sure, but there’ll also be joy. With joy there should be music, and Klopp has now picked the band he’d love to have playing live at Anfield to send him off.
Jurgen Klopp picks farewell band
We’re not sure we’re ready for this. Just how do you say thank you for what Jurgen has given us as Liverpool fans over the past near-decade? And more importantly, how do you say goodbye?
Hopefully a league title secured will make it easier, and a party atmosphere will be in progress. Even if that isn’t the case, maybe we will see a live band at Anfield, to send Jurgen on his way.
And asked by Sky News to name who he would like that to be, the boss gave a couple of answers.
“It’s in Liverpool so it would be easy to say it would be Beatles, it would be Beatles 100 per cent,” he said. “But the song, a couple of clubs use Beatles songs as ‘their’ songs if I hear that right. So, they could easily choose the song, I love them all.
“But actually a band that’s alive is Die Toten Hosen, the real translation is ‘The Dead Pants’,” Klopp added. “It’s a punk rock band, the lead singer, Campino, is a good friend of mine and the biggest LFC supporter on the planet. Actually, if they could sing at Anfield or whatever it would probably be the biggest day of his life.
“The song I love the most of theirs is a song that came out in 2012 when we won the double with Dortmund, the name of the song is Tage wie diese, ‘On days like this’. It was like made for us, on days like this anything is possible and these kinds of things.”
How many games does Klopp have left
Tomorrow’s game against Crystal Palace at Anfield has taken on greater significance after Liverpool’s dreadful defeat against Atalanta on Thursday.
Not that it really needed any. Presuming the Reds can’t overturn the three goal Europa League deficit in Italy next week, it’ll be Klopp’s third-last home match in charge.
Regardless of City’s result later today, a win would move Liverpool back to the top of the table before Arsenal play later on.
Following that, the Reds have six games to go in the Premier League and at least one in Europe. A minimum of seven games out of what has been the time of our lives. Get Klopp his wish, a league title and his favourite band signing his favourite song at Anfield on May 19th. The stuff of dreams for a nightmare day.