Liverpool's gamble on Bajcetic may be the key to a new dynasty for Klopp

What makes Sir Alex Ferguson and Pep Guardiola the best of the best is that they created successful footballing dynasties with more than one set of players.

Ferguson built three title-winning sides at Manchester United, while Guardiola has dominated English and Spanish football for a sustained period with both Manchester City and Barcelona.

Jurgen Klopp is deservedly seen as one of the best coaches to ever grace the game, but to be held in the same regard as Ferguson or Guardiola, he now needs to revive a Liverpool squad past its peak and shape a new group capable of rekindling their pursuit of trophies once more.

That is why 18-year-old Stefan Bajcetic has been thrust into the first team quicker than many expected. Teams can go stale quickly in the unrelenting Premier League. Just last season Liverpool went agonisingly close to an unprecedented quadruple, but the same set of players, minus Sadio Mane, have flopped this time around.

Klopp had to gamble to have any hope of starting another Anfield revolution. The energy and fire in Bajcetic is just what the doctor ordered.

“He’s a great player and person, he always tries to work hard,” Mohamed Salah said of Bajcetic after Monday’s Merseyside derby. “Since he started playing for us, he has been our best player.”

Every team has its cycle. Klopp assembled this current crop several years ago, helping create a near-imperious side capable of brilliant football. In any other era, this red machine would have won two or three more Premier League titles, had they not had to deal with the closest thing to a perfect team ever witnessed in the English top flight – Manchester City.

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