Jurgen Klopp has to do something he's never done before as Liverpool captaincy hint made
Jurgen Klopp will have to do something he’s never done before in his managerial career this summer.
The German was handed his first managerial role when taking over at former club Mainz Mainz 05 in February 2001. Staying there until the end of 2007/08 season, he then took over as Borussia Dortmund manager that summer and spent a further seven seasons at Westfalenstadion.
Appointed Liverpool manager in October 2015, his Anfield reign is already the longest of his career with Klopp winning every major honour since joining the Reds. But despite his managerial career currently standing at 22 and a half years, and counting, the German has only ever had three permanent club captains.
Dimo Wache was a long-standing Mainz captain when Klopp was appointed in 2001, while he named Sebastian Kehl as his skipper at Borussia Dortmund following his arrival at the club. Meanwhile, Jordan Henderson had been named Liverpool captain the summer of 2015 - three months before the German’s arrival at Anfield.
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Yet following the England international’s controversial £12m switch to Saudi Arabian side Al-Ettifaq earlier this week both Klopp and the Reds are on the lookout for a new captain.
“It's sad, absolutely strange, because he is the only captain I had here at Liverpool,” Klopp would concede when paying an emotional farewell to the midfielder.
"The longest-serving skipper for me,” he added in a video tribute posted on social media. “I always had long-serving skippers. Kehl, seven years, Wache, seven years and three months, you are seven years and eight or nine months so
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