Jurgen Klopp needs to do some creative accounting

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp wants to build another Fab Four at Anfield and that starts with the signing of Timo Werner.

The interest is mutual and it’s the worst kept secret in football history. German-to-German they’ve been getting ready. The first step in the road to Merseyside started last summer when Bayern Munich poisoned the well and threw the baby out with the bathwater.

Now Timo Werner is calling Klopp’s name, asking and pleading with the former Borussia Dortmund manager to take him on a Liverpool adventure.

But that will require one of two things to happen. Either Klopp reformats the side to include all four world-class attackers, or he backs a rotation policy the likes of which have never been seen on Anfield.

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There is no way that Michael Edwards would be convinced to part with a serious sum of money for a player to fill the Xherdan Shaqiri role, and so the gaffer would have to do some creative accounting in order to make room for Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino, Mohamed Salah and Werner in the squad.

And so the Fab Four could be reborn. It’ll be a slightly different monster to the version that included Phillipe Coutinho, but it’ll still be oh so fabulous.

This version could include Firmino dropping back into a no. 10 role in a 4-2-3-1 with Mane and Salah either side of him and Werner up top. Klopp has tried this formation before and doesn’t really like it as it takes away some midfield control, and it would give him a selection headache there.

How, for example, would you fit Fabinho, Jordan Henderson, Naby Keita, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Gini Wijnaldum and James Milner into that two?

The rotation option would seem the most likely in the short term as Timo Werner adjusts to the pace of the Premier League and gets used to what Klopp demands of the team.

But don’t discount a return to a Fab Four that could be bigger, better and more fabulous than anything Liverpool has ever seen.