“A final word from The Boss” — OUT NOW!

Jürgen Klopp and the leaving of a “superpower of world football”

May 30, 2024

OUT NOW! “A final word from The Boss — Jürgen Klopp and the leaving of a “superpower of world football” **(Author’s Collection)**

“I’m so glad, that Jürgen is a Red
I’m so glad, he delivered what he said
Jürgen said to me you know
We’ll win the Premier League you know, he said so
I’m in love with him and I feel fine”

Believe this or believe this not, but “A final word from The Boss” was cast in literary stone as the title for my second self-published book on Liverpool Football Club and Jürgen Klopp at the beginning of last season and way, way before his bombshell announcement that he was leaving at the end of the season. I’d like to believe the genial German with the whitest of teeth and widest of human smiles knew the title I’d already settled on and wanted to give me a helping hand in selling my latest literary masterwork but our love is an unrequited one and he’s left me to sell the damn thing all on my own!

Whilst I await my “author’s copy” to arrive from the USA I wanted to proudly show off my latest creation and so here it is, front cover, back cover blurb, links to both this book and my previous one on Liverpool FC and I’d be honoured, if you are financially able, to support me by buying another in my self-published stable of rambling musings.

In essence the 500 page book comes in 9 Acts with 6 specifically covering the 2023–2024 season (and sadly Jürgen’s last) with 3 Acts intermingled throughout with retrospective writing and match reports on the 1981–1982 season. I had a feeling Jürgen’s final team would emulate that of the late and great Bob Paisley in as much as creating and curating a team and a work in progress for the future that would win both the Premier League and the League Cup.

Well, I was halfway to being correct!

Here’s the blurb from the back cover:

Season ticket holder, wearer of retro football shirts and the world’s biggest critic of VAR, when not watching the Mighty Reds of Liverpool I can be found in the company of my beautiful son or with the “Grand Old Lady” of Ironbridge. This is my second book on Liverpool FC.

“I think I’ve said before, I think it’s really easy to fall in love with this team because it has so much excitement in it. We have to take massive steps, we have to grow, we have to get more stable, we have to do a lot of things but a lot of the signs are really promising. That’s true as well. How the team interacts with each other is really nice because when you talk about the rebuild of a team then it is all about the things you see on the pitch, obviously, but to see that there must be a rebuild off the pitch as well — and that’s going really well”

Mere days after this post-match assessment of the evolution of his next great Liverpool team, manager Jürgen Klopp informed Fenway Sports Group of his desire to leave at the end of the season and two years before the end of his current contract. An evolution became an emotional, glory lined sprint for greatness, roared on by a “superpower of world football” devotional in their praise for a man who made the people happy and who re-established their club at the pinnacle of world football.

This is the match-by-match story of Jürgen Klopp’s final season as manager of Liverpool Football Club.

"A final word from The Boss" - available via Amazon