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Ten years have passed since Jurgen Klopp took over from Brendan Rodgers as Liverpool manager, announced himself as ‘The Normal One’ and reminded us of who we really were.

The following piece is a passage from Adam Beattie’s new book, Jurgen Klopp: Power of the Collective.

Everything was about to change and the best bit was that we had sleepwalked into a position of blissful ignorance. A whole new world was opening up in front of us and we were about to get the Liverpool we deserved, the Liverpool that history demands of itself.

‘Doubters to believers’ has since taken on iconic connotations of its own but we hadn’t truly recognised ourselves as doubters in the first place, we had just become comfortable enough with accepting mediocrity.

We had five European Cups proudly sitting in our museum and, although the league title had eluded us since 1990, we had punched above our weight on more than one occasion and gone as close as it is possible to get.

If Everton are brazen enough to label themselves the sleeping giants, Liverpool should have been acting like the conscious giants.

We have been there and done it and, even...

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