At least Liverpool have been given three or four months to plan. And at least, courtesy of Jurgen Klopp looking straight into that camera and saying, ‘Enough now’, there is clarity and unambiguity about what lies ahead for Liverpool — because that’s certainly not how it was in the hot summer of 1974, when Bill Shankly walked away.
He, like Klopp, said he was tired, though it was far more complicated than that. When each season ended, the emptiness gnawed away at Shankly’s self-confidence and he would tell the club he was quitting, only to be talked around.