Former boss Paul Lambert offers to help Jurgen Klopp settle at

A photo was released on the club website of Klopp putting pen to paper on his three-year contract to make the announcement official.

Defender Mats Hummels, who joined Klopp’s Dortmund from Bayern Munich in 2008 and was a key figure in their success, had nothing but praise for his former boss.

It has been a short stay for both men, who only took up their roles this summer having been chosen by the departed Brendan Rodgers following the departures of Mike Marsh and Colin Pascoe.

Head of performance Glen Driscoll and head of opposition analysis Chris Davies, who followed Rodgers to Anfield from Swansea in 2012, have also lost their jobs.

Bosnian Buvac, 54, and German Krawietz, 43, were key members of Klopp’s backroom team during his time at Dortmund. The Guardian reported the former Bundesliga manager is closing on taking the vacant job at Liverpool.

But the 56-year-old Italian has suggested he may only return to management next season.

ESPN FC has been told that Klopp is not planning a major overhaul of the Liverpool playing staff and will give the existing squad time to prove themselves.

Klopp arrived in Liverpool on Thursday to find the media waiting for him, the former Mainz player and coach at one point effectively confirming his imminent appointment during a brief interview given to a journalist through the intercom of his accommodation.

The Dortmund captain, speaking before Germany’s Euro 2016 qualifier against Republic of Ireland on Thursday, described Klopp as a “fantastic coach”.

When appointed, Rodgers’s replacement will work within the existing structure and what has become known as Anfield’s ‘transfer committee’. The Reds insists that the German accommodates Sean O’Driscoll and Gary McAllister in his first team staff. Both O’Driscoll and McAllister were signed ahead of the season and Liverpool FC are reclutant to let them go. Football is a results business and if you are not getting the ones you want, not winning leagues or cups, questions will be asked, and sadly for him that was the case.