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There hasn’t been much major transfer activity at Liverpool this month and it’s all quiet on the Anfield front in that regard today but they’ve had their fair share of huge news in the past week.

The decision of manager Jurgen Klopp to step down at the end of the season came as a shock to the football world and has been bigger than any January transfer window move.

Klopp’s assistant Pep Lijnders will also be leaving along with the German and the 41-year-old Dutchman has been speaking about making his exit after the ‘last dance’ and his partnership with his “proper football brother” coming to an end.

“I owe this club everything. They don’t owe me anything, to be honest. It’s 10 years full of dedication,” Lijnders told the Liverpool website.

“I always said I will finish with Jürgen; the moment I will not assist anyone else, that’s the moment I will go and I will manage. That was always the case.

“So when we spoke, it was clear for me: OK, then I go and manage, and we end this project together [that] we started.”

Liverpool are still challenging for trophies on four fronts. They are top of the Premier League, in the Carabao Cup final, in the FA Cup fifth round and in the last 16 of the Europa League.

“I think everybody just wants to make it a special ending. For that, we need to give everything on the training pitch, we need to continue proving why we are different, why our identity is intensity,” added Lijnders.

"In a few months’ time I will sit down with my manager, now is not the time, but then I will see what kind of options do I have, which club really wants [me] and in that moment I will make a decision."