Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool farewell: ‘I feel he is a Scouser’

Colette Halliday said her partner Stephen Murphy received a similar gesture from Klopp just weeks before he died of pulmonary fibrosis.

She said that “out of the blue came this absolutely beautiful letter”, which she added was written in Klopp’s “unique Scouse-German”.

“We just all burst into tears when we read it,” she said.

“I was so pleased Stephen got to see it because he died about three weeks later.

“The kindness that [Jurgen] showed in writing that letter when he didn’t have to is the measure of the man.”

She said the letter ended with a message about how the “managers, players, owners, directors, staff and supporters” of Liverpool were “all supporting” Mr Murphy “and the best thing about this I know is what a difference it can make”.

“We’re all with you,” Klopp wrote.

“You’ll never walk alone.”

It will be that exact phrase that many of the city’s residents will hope he carries with him himself beyond his final game.