COMMENT: The German is in his seventh season with Borussia Dortmund but, just like his opposite number at Arsenal, his best days with the club may be behind him

Given football’s unquenchable thirst for instant gratification, it is an achievement in itself that Jurgen Klopp remains in charge of Borussia Dortmund in his seventh season at Signal Iduna Park.

His beard, tree bark brown with flecks of white, gives the impression of a man readied for all seasons, but the increasing depth of the frown lines on his forehead are a telling sign of his troubled existence throughout a harsh autumn.

For Klopp, the last six years have followed a near perfect upward linear trend. Three years after his appointment, the 47-year-old lifted the Bundesliga in 2011, before repeating that feat a year later and winning the DFB Pokal in the same season.

In Europe, he guided Dortmund to the 2013 Champions League final, where they were beaten by Bayern Munich in the final, but bounced back to reach the quarter-finals last season, only to be thwarted by eventual winners Real Madrid.

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