Strange truth behind photo of Liverpool's 2019 Champions League winners

We're getting to point now where the tributes to Jurgen Klopp are going to start flowing.

Just two weeks of the Liverpool manager's tenure remain, and he'll face his penultimate Anfield match in charge when Tottenham come calling to Anfield on Sunday afternoon.

Well-wishes, favourite games and goals are going to come from all angles, and you're also likely to get a few people naming Klopp's best XI from his near nine years in charge at Anfield.

Shall we do it ourselves? Well Alisson is obviously in goal, and three of the back four are sewn up in Virgil van Dijk, Andy Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold. The other centre-back? It's a tight one, but Joel Matip probably just edges it over the likes of Joe Gomez, Dejan Lovren and Ibrahima Konate.

In midfield Jordan Henderson has be there, while Fabinho was one of the transformative signings which took Liverpool to Champions League and Premier League glory so he's in. James Milner has a strong shout for the third midfield spot but he was always more of a utility man, so we'll go with Gini Wijnaldum. The the front three obviously picks itself, and that is Mo Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane.

It's a classic line-up, right? And it is also the one which began the 2019 Champions League final when Liverpool beat Tottenham 2-0 in Madrid thanks to Salah's early penalty and a late strike from sub Divock Origi. Remarkably though, that was the only time Klopp ever named that XI during his time in charge.

Matip had begun that 2018-19 season as Klopp's third choice to partner Van Dijk, behind Gomez and Lovren, while Fabinho was introduced slowly in his first season meaning that Henderson would often play deeper and Milner or Naby Keita would come in.

That's when Klopp played his usual 4-3-3 anyway. He would also often use a 4-2-3-1 formation in the first half of this season, meaning plenty of starts for Xherdan Shaqiri on the right of the attack as Salah played in the middle.

Injuries and midfield rotation - when Wijnaldum famously scored twice against Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final, a match Firmino and Salah were injured for, he'd only come on at half-time - meant that Klopp was often chopping and changing his line-up.

Then the following season, the Premier League title winning one, there was an early injury for Alisson, then a longer one for Matip, and the opportunities for Klopp to pick the team ebbed away. They'll always have Madrid though.