The last time that Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain was inside Melwood, Liverpool rolled out the big guns as well as the red carpet. It was the summer of 2011 and Steven Gerrard, the then 17-year-old’s boyhood idol, and Jamie Carragher met him at the training ground to talk up the club’s prospects in the hope of persuading him to add some youth and legs to their age and experience.

As it turned out his career path took him from Southampton to north London and Arsenal instead, although second time around the lure of the iconic figure shaping the modern Liverpool was too good to turn down. Jürgen Klopp has got his man.

No longer do Liverpool simply beat their rivals on the pitch but also now in