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The Liverpool documentary which was originally intended to bring viewers behind-the-scenes insight from the club’s 2023-24 season has been tweaked following the departure of Jurgen Klopp last summer.
Klopp announced in January 2024 that he would be leaving the club at the end of the campaign after nine brilliant years with the club. At the time, the Reds were chasing a possible quadruple, but the team ended up with just the Carabao Cup to show for its efforts during Klopp’s swansong on Merseyside.
The documentary, which is being produced by London-based company Lorton Entertainment, was first announced in January 2024, just weeks after Klopp announced he would be leaving the club at the end of the season.
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However, while the announcement came 12 months ago, it is reported by The Telegraph that the deal to produce the documentary in the first place was struck long before it emerged that the German would be leaving the club.
The series, which was originally scheduled to be eight episodes long, is now expected to include just four episodes, with Klopp having been re-interviewed with a wider focus on his time at the club as a whole since leaving last May.
Other key figures in Liverpool’s success across Klopp’s near nine-year stay at Anfield are also reported to have been interviewed for the series, which is said to have been picked up by a streaming platform, although it is not yet clear which one.
A key part of Liverpool’s decision to do the documentary, which is a club project, was the potential to generate significant income. Rival clubs such as Manchester City, Tottenham and Arsenal each generated millions from series documenting behind-the-scenes goings-on at their clubs in recent years.
The City, Tottenham and Arsenal series, which were released in 2018, 2020 and 2022 respectively, were all produced by Amazon Studios and are on Amazon Prime, while Netflix and Disney+ have had success with their respective series covering Sunderland and Wrexham in recent years.