Amid all the consequences of Liverpool’s Champions League success, there is one symbolic gesture that means everything to Jurgen Klopp.

For four years he banned his players from tapping the club’s famed ‘This is Anfield’ sign, warning they had to earn that right. Suffice to say, becoming European champions has sealed the deal.

“The boys asked me if we will now touch the sign in the stadium, so why not? It’s OK now,” said Klopp.

“I’m not sure if I will do it, though, because last year we had done so well and didn’t touch it. It’s just good to have the licence.”

Sitting in a suite of the Hilton in South Bend, Indiana, ahead of the club’s first tour game with Borussia Dortmund, the Liverpool coach is striking the balance between absorbing the scale of last year’s achievement and maintaining the thirst for more.