It wasn’t any lingering hostility though, from the intense rivalry with the “enemy” Manchester United that the German accepts will flavour Liverpool ’s approach on Sunday. Instead, it was his admiration and sheer excitement at meeting a manager he has admired down the years, and with whom he has a “really good relationship”. “When I met him first it was, ‘Alex Ferguson’ with another word in the middle. (Image: NEIL HALL/EPA-EFE/REX)But the Liverpool manager is not about the start believing he can emulate the Scot, even though his team has been compared to the first great one Ferguson created at Old Trafford. It does not feel ‘ooh’ because it is Sir Alex Ferguson.

Source: Daily Mirror January 17, 2020 22:30 UTC