Liverpool coach quietly exiting with Jurgen Klopp leaves FSG with huge role to fill
If Jurgen Klopp could have handpicked an opposition counterpart for what will be an emotional Anfield on Sunday afternoon, it would have been the Norwich City boss.
Klopp and David Wagner's famously-close relationship stretches back decades to their time in German football and it was already planning to be a joyous reunion when Norwich arrive for the fourth round of the FA Cup on Sunday.
But throw in the fact that it will be Klopp's first match since he announced his shock plan to leave at the end of the season after nine years and it promises to be quite the scene on the touchline this weekend.
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The Reds boss has bristled, winced and groaned in equal measure at the sound of the Kop telling us all that they're so glad that Jurgen is a red over the last two years but Klopp will simply have to grin and bear it on Sunday. He will be serenaded from the first whistle and Wagner's presence will be an added flourish to it all.
For the Liverpool players, though, they have gone from Sunday being a relatively routine cup tie against lower league opposition at home to the prospect of the occasion overshadowing the game itself. Therein lies the potential for complacency to set in for what is expected to be a much-changed team.
"Hopefully if I get to start again it's another chance for me to impress," says Conor Bradley, whose fourth successive appearance for the Reds is under threat by the possibility of a recall for a fit-again Trent Alexander-Arnold.
"Hopefully if I get the chance on Sunday I can do well. I've played over 10 times for Northern Ireland so it's been a
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