How Emery prompted Klopp’s Liverpool revolution

The Reds' Europa League final defeat to Sevilla in Basel in 2016 was the moment everything changed at Anfield, as it sparked a squad overhaul

The Novotel Hotel, Basel. Well after midnight, and a few beers down.

It should have been a celebration, not an inquest. Liverpool should have been dancing and singing around the Europa League trophy.

Instead, Jurgen Klopp and his squad were left to reflect on what might have been. Regrets would be carried back to Merseyside the following day.

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