There is no football fan who has not experienced a frustrating period in his life, a period when his team ran into difficulties, years without titles, years when it became a laughingstock, even if it is considered a big club.
There are fans whose difficulties make them stay away, but there are also many who in these years understand even more how much the love for the team really is without limits, love without conditions.
Then, when suddenly the wheel turns and your team succeeds, you look at success differently.
You value her more, you create her in your head, heart and soul.
For three decades almost Liverpool fans have become a joke and a sad joke in the world of football.
They leaned on the past, saw other teams overtake them in the round, but Anfield continued to be their refuge, because they kept hoping, even if they themselves already enjoyed laughing at the gray and characterless players they saw before their eyes.
They were close to the top at times, saw flashes with a particularly memorable miracle in Istanbul, but didn't really have anything to lean on, or rather who, until October 8, 2015, when Jurgen Klopp signed on as the team's coach.
"We need to turn from skeptics to believers," he addressed the fans at his first press conference.
And today, a little more than nine years, the most important man of the Mighty Reds in the 21st century has decided that enough is enough, that at the end of the season he will leave the team, after fulfilling what he promised.
who, after years of humiliation, made them walk with their chests stretched out with pride.
Klopp is shown in Liverpool in October 2015, photo: Getty Images
Klopp recorded impressive achievements.
His success rate stands at 60.7%, higher than Kenny Dalglish (58.3%) and Bob Paisley (57.4%), although he won far fewer championships (one) than Dalglish (three) and Paisley (six).
Klopp is the only Liverpool manager to win every possible title including the Champions League, FA Cup and League Cup.
Liverpool still have 17 Premier League games left this season, which means Klopp will end his time at the club after 334 league games.
In his 317 games so far, he has averaged an extraordinary 2.12 points per game, third only to Pep Guardiola (2.34) and Sir Alex Ferguson (2.16) among those who have coached at least 50 games in the league.
Liverpool's next win in the Premier League will be Klopp's 200th and he will be his seventh in total, with only three having done so at the same club as him - Ferguson, Arsene Wenger and Guardiola. The 199 wins to date put him in second place for most wins since playing League One on October 17, 2015 against Tottenham, with only City winning more points (716) and wins (223) in that time period.
Celebrating with his players winning the Champions League in 2019, photo: AFP
What is amazing is that he brought these achievements with innovative, exciting football, such that many saw it as the most beautiful football they had seen in the kingdom.
Klopp brought to England the mighty Gegenpressing in which his followers pounced on the opposing players as soon as they lost the ball and made them lose their minds.
"The best moment to win the ball is right after your team has lost it, when the opponent is still looking for where to pass the ball," he explained, and his students did it perfectly, playing excellent attacking football.
This tactic required amounts of speed, practice and discipline from the players and they became a well-oiled machine under him.
From the most dedicated player to the player who likes to run the least, everyone behaved on the field like disciplined soldiers.
Liverpool were compact and predatory.
He improved players who were just before the big break into football stars, from Alisson, through Andy Robertson to Mohamed Salah, who became a meteor under him.
Klopp with Firmino.
He improved almost every player who played under him, photo: AP
The greatest beauty whose discipline he obtained blessings.
Klopp realized that the era of coaches who love their players is over, that players today are not only looking for a coach to guide them, but a fatherly figure who understands that they are human beings.
"Tactics are important, you can't win without them, but emotion makes the difference," he said, adding that "the best football is based on expressing emotions."
He gave them love and they gave him back a physical hug as well as a hug on the grass, listening to what he was saying and the whole of Anfield was swept up in that love.
With the crowd, Klopp became a local hero as the years went by.
The walls of the city's buildings were painted with painted portraits of him, and he was given the status of a rock star, one that was reserved only for the stars of the Beatles.
The regular ceremony after games where the Kop went to the stand and celebrated victories, became a binding ceremony just like the referee's final whistle.
"This is the best club in the world," Klopp addressed the fans today with tears in his eyes.
"The way the people here deal with difficulties is a role model for me, I learned so much here."
A drawing of Klopp on the streets of Liverpool.
Rock Star, photo: EPA
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Klopp may not have won as many titles as Guardiola did with City, but his legacy will be just as great, while maintaining as much authenticity and the team's DNA as possible.
No matter who will step into his shoes - Xavi Alonso, Steven Gerrard, Roberto de Zerbi or any other coach - they will have to bring quite a bit of their own personal charm and uniqueness so that they don't suffer from tiresome comparisons all the time.
What's more, maybe they should try a little to keep Klopp's spirit in the corridors of Anfield as well.
In any case, she will be there forever.
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