Jurgen Klopp announced as new Liverpool manager on three-year deal... worth more than bumper £6m-a-season

Liverpool Head Coach
Jurgen Klopp

Jurgen Klopp has been charged with the task of returning Liverpool to the peak of the European game after he was confirmed as the club's new manager on Thursday night.

A short statement published on the club website at 9pm provided the news which Liverpool supporters had been hoping for ever since Brendan Rodgers was sacked in the wake of last Sunday's 1-1 draw with Everton.

Klopp will be presented to the media at 10am Friday morning.

KLOPP'S FIRST SIX GAMES 

Oct 17: Tottenham (a) - Premier League

Oct 22: Rubin Kazan (h) - Europa League

Oct 25: Southampton (h) - Premier League

Oct 28: Bournemouth (h) - Capital One Cup

Oct 31: Chelsea (a) - Premier League

Nov 5: Rubin Kazan (a) - Europa League

The charismatic German has signed a bumper deal worth more than £6million per year.

It runs for three seasons with the option for it to be extended by 12 months should he make the progress that owners Fenway Sports Group expect.

Klopp arrived on Merseyside at 5pm on Thursday, having flown into the city's John Lennon airport on a private jet from Dortmund. He was accompanied on the 90-minute flight by his family and his trusted assistants Zeljko Buvac and Peter Krawietz. From there, Klopp and his entourage were taken to the plush London Carriage Works hotel in two silver people-carriers where, after a week of intense speculation, he signed the terms he had agreed with FSG president Mike Gordon and Ian Ayre, Liverpool's chief executive.

Once the formalities had been concluded, Klopp had dinner with chairman Tom Werner, Ayre and a number of the staff whose services he will be retaining, including goalkeeper coach John Achterberg, academy director Alex Inglethorpe and club doctor Andy Massey.

Sean O'Driscoll, appointed as assistant manager in June, Glenn Driscoll, the head of performance, and Chris Davies, head of opposition analysis and a staunch ally of Rodgers, were all relieved of their duties.

Driscoll and Davies had been at Liverpool since Rodgers arrived from Swansea in 2012. Ryland Morgans, head of fitness and conditioning, who followed Rodgers to Liverpool from Swansea, remains at the club.

Gary McAllister, the first-team coach, also found out that he had lost the role which he had held for less than 10 weeks but that did not stop him taking training with the non-international players alongside Pepijn Linders, another coach who survived the cull.

The high regard in which the popular McAllister is held at Anfield was shown by the fact that Liverpool were eager to offer him a position as a club ambassador, something that he was happy to accept. 

A statement read: 'The club would like to place on record its thanks to all four men for the professionalism, commitment and dedication they have displayed during their time here, and the positive impact they have had in helping to support football operations and the team.'

Sportsmail understands that Klopp wants Borussia Dortmund's reserve team manager David Wagner, the former USA international, to join his staff. The pair formed a friendship playing alongside each other at Mainz between 1991 and 1995 and were reunited at Dortmund when Wagner took charge of the club's Under 21 side in July 2011.

It is not yet known if Klopp will make any more appointments to his backroom team. There has always traditionally been a former player on the coaching side of things, but as yet nothing has been decided. When it became clear that Rodgers was not going to transform Liverpool's fortunes, Klopp was the one man FSG wanted to revitalise the club and their tenacity to get the deal over the line can be regarded as a coup. The reaction to his appointment shows he is box office.

FSG are in the process of rebuilding Anfield's Main Stand and their desire for when the stadium is up to a 54,000 capacity at the beginning of next season is for Liverpool to be making giant strides once more, and they have faith that Klopp is the man to get them there. Rodgers, who is taking a short break from management having been left shattered by the disappointment of losing his job, insisted last week he had never been set the target of keeping Liverpool in the top four, but there is little doubt that will be the minimum ambition for Klopp. 

His arrival in the Barclays Premier League has created enormous interest and Anfield is bound to be full on Friday when he faces the media for the first time; it will continue way beyond his first game in charge at White Hart Lane next Saturday, too.

This, without question, is the statement-making appointment of FSG's five-year reign as owners and Roy Hodgson, the boss they inherited but sacked in January 2011, was quick to welcome Klopp into English football.

'I certainly wish him well,' said England's head coach.

'I received a lot of help and backing from Brendan Rodgers and I hope for the same from Jurgen. I welcome him to England and wish him luck in trying to make them the top team the owners want.'