
It's a year since Juergen Klopp breezed into English football as the new manager of Liverpool, and the bespectacled, fun-loving German has established himself as the most charismatic coach in the Premier League. In a summer transfer window of record spending by English top-flight clubs that topped 1 billion pounds (now $1.2 billion) for the first time, Liverpool returned a profit - reportedly between 10-15 million pounds - as Klopp juggled his squad with mostly lower-profile recruits. Fears that Liverpool would be left behind by its big-spending rivals have proved unfounded: The strategy has worked out just fine.
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