OLIVER HOLT: Is this an apparition that we see before us? Is it real? Is Liverpool-Manchester City at Anfield a football match or a ghost-game? Will it remain in the sport's history books or will it be erased when City's guilty verdicts on 114 charges of financial chicanery meet their punishment sometime in the months ahead? There was a time when any Premier League clash between these two sides would have been regarded as the best advertisement for the English game that there could be. Not anymore. This game is being played at a wonderful stadium but it might as well be in a circus tent. It is not a match. It is a giant and terrible curiosity. The great managers who helped to define this collision between modern giants - Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola - are both gone and now this clash stands for something else: it marks the start of a period of slow torture for the top flight in this country‚ a period when we cannot know whether there is any permanence attached to results that involve City. A period when we will not know whether we should believe what we see.

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KIERAN GILL: Jurgen Klopp missed out on his first win as Germany manager with Liverpool forward Cody Gakpo scoring the stoppage-time volley which denied him. It was a fine finish from Gakpo and an equalling exquisite cross from Ruben van Bommel after Serge Gnabry had given away the ball in the build-up. That ensured the Netherlands‚ now managed by Barcelona and Spain legend Xavi‚ avoided losing in Amsterdam. A draw was the deserved result at the end of what turned into a nasty Nations League clash. The tackles were flying in‚ though there were two apparent muscular injuries which will have a pair of Premier League managers concerned. Kai Havertz of Arsenal and Brian Brobbey of Sunderland - both of whom have started every league game for their clubs this season - needed substituting. It was while the latter was down injured that Germany controversially scored their opener.

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Jurgen Klopp has reportedly introduced four rules for Germany stars as the former Liverpool boss seeks to turn around the fortunes of their national team. Klopp will take charge of Germany for the first time on Thursday when they face the Netherlands in the Nations League‚ after being unveiled as the new national team boss in July. The 59-year-old‚ who took the job after a two-year break from the dugout‚ will hope to restore Germany's standing after a decade of underperformance at international tournaments.

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The Real Madrid star came close to signing for the Reds as a teenager‚ with Klopp previously revealing secret meetings and Mbappe's mother pushing for him to move to Merseyside. But he instead signed for Paris Saint-Germain‚ and the rest is history. In a stunning admission earlier this year‚ Klopp‚ who was covering the World Cup quarter-final between France and Morocco for German television station Magenta TV‚ detailed live on air how Mbappe was almost a Liverpool player in 2016.

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Jurgen Klopp has hit out at the 'pathetic' German media for leaking his first international squad announcement as Germany head coach. Klopp‚ who was unveiled as the national side's new boss in July following a two-year break from the dugout after leaving Liverpool‚ has announced a 44-man split squad‚ which will be used across four Nations League fixtures. The unusually large squad will be separated into two to handle an extended three-week international break‚ as they face Netherlands‚ Greece and Serbia.

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