EMOTIONAL KLOPP BIDS FAREWELL TO LIVERPOOL

For the last time as Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp ran over to The Kop and delivered those repeated fist pumps that have been his signature during his transformational spell at Anfield...

For the last time as Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp ran over to The Kop and delivered those repeated fist pumps that have been his signature during his transformational spell at Anfield. The Liverpool fans — many with tears in their eyes, just like some of the team's players — responded with a series of deafening roars, and then cheered Klopp as he did a circuit of the field.

Soon enough, he had disappeared out of view down the tunnel.

Gone, but never forgotten.

“I’m one of you now — I love you to bits," Klopp said among his last words as he addressed the crowd inside Anfield after his final game as Liverpool's manager, a 2-0 win over Wolverhampton on Sunday.

The match on the final day of the Premier League season doubled as a tribute to a German coach who led Liverpool to seven major trophies in his nearly nine years at Anfield and forged such a connection with the city that he has been compared to Bill Shankly — the club’s legendary manager from 1959-74. No wonder Klopp looked emotional throughout an afternoon that Liverpool fans never wanted to come.