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Jurgen Klopp's £7m-a-year contract at Liverpool could make the 48-year-old the third-highest paid manager in the Premier League.

Jurgen Klopp will earn £7million a year at Liverpool — if he delivers on his promise to take them back to the top.
The German coach has signed a three-year contract to manage the Reds, which, with bonuses, would put him just behind Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger in the list of the highest-paid managers in British football.
He has told his new American employers that he believes he can deliver on the target of a top four finish this season. And if he returns the club to the summit of the game, then his bonus-based salary would reflect that.
Former Borussia Dortmund boss Klopp, who has two Bundesliga titles and a Champions’ League final on his CV, touched down at Liverpool John Lennon airport just after 5pm on Thursday aboard a private plane that stopped on the apron of the runway well away from the assembled media's camera lenses.
He was then driven to a city-centre hotel, where he was met by Reds officials including chairman Tom Werner - who flew in from the States this week to greet him - and chief executive Ian Ayre.
Klopp then put pen to paper on a contract agreed earlier in the week that will keep him at Anfield for the next three years, with an option for a further 12 months.
The appointment was confirmed at 9pm on Thursday in a simple two-line statement on the Reds' official website:
"Liverpool Football Club are delighted to announce Jurgen Klopp has been appointed as the club's new manager.
"The German coach has signed a deal to take the helm at the Reds and will be presented at a press conference at Anfield on Friday morning."

Red ink: Klopp and chief exec Ian Ayre are all smiles as he puts pen to paper

Speaking to reporters in Germany before jetting to Merseyside, he insisted he would throw his heart and soul into the job.
“From tomorrow I am 24/7 a Liverpool man, but for now we have to do some private things and that’s no time for media,” he said in explaining Thursday's media black-out.
Klopp flew to Liverpool on a private jet chartered by the club with his wife Ulla, son Marc and trusted lieutenant Peter Krawietz, who was his chief scout and head of video analysis at Dortmund and will perform a similar role at Anfield.
The 48-year-old will also bring in his former Dortmund assistant manager Zelko Buvac, who is regarded as his right-hand man and will be the manager’s eyes and ears in the dressing room.
That means Brendan Rodgers’ recently appointed assistant boss Sean O’Driscoll will leave the club, and he will be joined at the exit door by analyst Chris Davies and also head of performance Glen Driscoll, who were both key elements of Rodgers' staff.
First team coach Gary McAllister, who also arrived only in the summer, will also be stepping down, but he has been offered an ambassadorial role at the club, and is thought to be staying on.
Dutchman Pep Lijnders will also continue in his ‘elite player development role’ with the first team squad after being appointed to that position recently.
Klopp caused a real stir in the city on Thursday, with hundreds of fans flocking to the hotel in an attempt to catch a glimpse of the new manager.
He will meet those players not on international duty at the club’s Melwood training ground, and will work with the squad next week for the first time ahead of his bow as the new boss, which comes next Saturday at Spurs.
The German then faces a frenetic programme of four games in 10 days, culminating in a pivotal Halloween trip to Chelsea that will tell him much about his new squad