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Jurgen Klopp has agreed a three-year deal to become Liverpool manager. The 48-year-old German replaces Brendan Rodgers, who was sacked on Sunday after three and a half years in charge with the club 10th in the Premier League.

Klopp has been out of work since May, when he ended a seven-year spell at Borussia Dortmund to take a sabbatical. He is expected to have Zeljko Buvac and Peter Krawietz – his former assistants at the Bundesliga club – as part of his coaching staff at Anfield.

Sean O’Driscoll, who was Rodgers’s assistant, has left the club while Gary McAllister has been removed as first-team coach, although he is considering the offer of another role with the Reds.

No contract has yet been signed but that is viewed as a formality when Klopp arrives in Liverpool later yesterday. He will be officially unveiled by Liverpool today. After seven years as Mainz boss, Klopp joined Dortmund in 2008 and led them to two Bundesliga titles.

They lost to Wolfsburg in last season’s German Cup final — his final game — at the end of a campaign in which they struggled domestically, finishing seventh in the league.

Klopp will take over a Liverpool side who have won only four of their 11 games in all competitions this season.

The international break means his first game in charge is a Premier League match at Tottenham on October 17.

Klopp will have work within the existing structure and what has become known as Anfield’s “transfer committee”.

It is the group that plots and carries out transfer strategy and up until Sunday night consisted of Rodgers, scouts Dave Fallows and Barry Hunter, the man in charge of analysis Michael Edwards, FSG’s Anfield representative Mike Gordon and chief executive Ian Ayre. — BBC Sport.