If anyone was still unaware that these are the end of days for Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool, his riotous performance at Friday's press conference will have given the game away.
Klopp mused without restraint on a number of topics that included a potential job as FIFA president one day, saying "I probably wouldn't survive in that sea of sharks", why a lack of player welfare is hurting English football in Europe and, most interestingly of all, the unprompted broadside at TNT Sport, a TV channel he claims he will "definitely never watch again".
As public addresses go, Klopp held court with the same sort of energy as Father Ted Crilly, using his Golden Cleric award as an opportunity to belatedly settle a few scores. "And now we move on to liars..."
Klopp says what he really thinks and nobody is safe in final weeks at Liverpool
Every word of Klopp's extraordinary answer as he goes off on TNT Sports
It suggests the next few weeks will be appointment viewing when Klopp addresses the media but among the headline-grabbing soundbites and the humorous interactions, there was a searingly honest take on Tottenham Hotspur that suggests Liverpool might finally be able to snap out of their end-of-season malaise this weekend.
With a heavy reference to the reverse fixture at the end of September, when anything that could go wrong did, Klopp said: "I don’t want to make it the biggest subject, but I can't forget the Tottenham as well, it's just a fact.
"It was just strange. Only the other night, in the Merseyside derby, the first time Tottenham [referee] Simon Hooper was standing next to me for 90 minutes in a game I didn’t enjoy in the first place and I tried to get it out of my head and couldn’t.
"And now we play Tottenham, and that was
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