Get ready for Liverpool 2.0 this season under revitalized Klopp

There’s a word Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has used a few times when he talks about the upcoming Premier League season.

Fire.

His players? “You can see the fire in their eyes.”

Klopp himself? “I’m on fire.”

It’s what having a bad season — no trophy and a fifth-place finish in the league — does to a big club. It shakes people, invigorates them.

That’s certainly the case with Liverpool amid its first major overhaul in Klopp’s nearly eight years at Anfield.

There’s a completely new midfield. A much-changed forward line (still, though, containing Mohamed Salah). The repositioning of right back Trent Alexander-Arnold as a hybrid defender-midfielder. There’s even a new captain, in Virgil van Dijk.

The question, now, is how quickly Klopp can bring this new Liverpool together. Can the Reds once again become Manchester City’s biggest threat in the Premier League?

“We try to raise the bar again and again and ag

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