A few months before Martin Broughton gave assurances to the Premier League, one Liverpool supporter called Stephen Horner emailed Tom Hicks’s son, Tom Jr, attaching a link to an article that laid out the desperate state of Liverpool’s condition.

He received a one-word reply, ‘Idiot.’ When he queried this, Junior elaborated.

“Blow me, fuck face. Go to hell, I’m sick of you.”

After apologising to Horner, Hicks junior resigned from the board a couple of days later. Liverpool was as fractured as it could be.

By the end of 2010, Liverpool had been sold to NESV (who would become FSG) despite the objections of Hicks and Gillett. Broughton, who had been appointed to oversee the sale, was able to express some satisfaction.

“Every Liverpool fan knows that the most nerve-racking way to win a football match is in a penalty shoot-out," he said. "But as long as you get the right result, it's worth the wait.”

Waiting is now part of the Liverpool mythology, but Klopp’s gift is that he seems unburdened by the past while energised by all history can bring.

It may be that the club will get to him too, that he will be worn down and fundamentally altered by the demands, especially the demand that will now grow for a Premier League title.

But for now, he is too much of the future to be weighed down by the past. He has created a team which is exhilarating and relentless, a side which seems to cater for every modern whim, including diminished attention spans, by insisting that anything can happen, that no lead is secure, no task too daunting - and never take your eyes off it for a minute.

For too long, anxiety and expectation have been the agonising pincer jaws which Liverpool had to negotiate. While it could produce tremendous excitement, they could never lose that feeling of enormous foreboding, the sense that it all could go wrong at any moment. Perhaps because it all could go wrong at any moment.

Klopp has been determined to change that. “If you get up in the morning and the first hour is bad, does that mean you go back to bed? No, it means let’s try another one,” he asked at the end of last season when he reflected on the moments of doubt.

He has nurtured one other revolutionary concept: unity. The issues of the transfer committee was dealt with at the first press conference and now the club projects a united front, even if, as Buvac’s departure would suggest, that may not always be the case. But even that blow will not alter that purpose.

Over the past ten years, even when success was at hand, Liverpool seemed determined to split over an issue- and usually it wasn’t very hard to find one.

But the club has changed through the intelligence and personality of Jurgen Klopp. There is a unity of purpose now, a cohesion that was lacking when the club was on the brink. In those eight years, so much has changed and when Liverpool fulfil their final fixture of the season in Kiev, nobody will doubt which side will be turning up.