Zeljko Buvac return and how Jurgen Klopp survived break up with Liverpool 'brain'

When Zeljko Buvac unexpectedly quit Liverpool in April 2018, there was no real telling what might happen next.

An assistant manager is crucial to the set-up of any football club and when Jurgen Klopp's right-hand man unofficially departed just two days before the Reds' second-leg clash with Roma in the Champions League semi-final, there was a natural period of uncertainty.

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From the outside, anyway.

Klopp had worked with Buvac - a man the manager famously and affectionately dubbed 'The Brain' - since 2001 and his name echoed around social media whenever the Reds stumbled for a long time after his departure.

In all honesty, few had real insight into what exactly Buvac's role entailed during his two-and-a-half year stint at Anfield, or the impact he truly had on Klopp or the squad, but that did not