"Giving up is definitely not in the Scouse dictionary," Liverpool's departing manager Jurgen Klopp has written in an emotional open letter to his adoptive city.
Ahead of his final match in charge of the Reds on Sunday, he described Liverpool as "the city of open arms" in a letter published in the Liverpool Echo.
The German moved to Merseyside with his wife Ulla when appointed manager in 2015.
"Liverpool is a city that we lived in and worked in but it is also a place that we fell in love with," he wrote. "We owe it so much.