Liverpool have confirmed backroom stalwart Graham Carter is set to retire.
Carter’s links with Anfield begain in the 1970s as a first-team’s coach driver before taking up the role in an official and full-time capacity from 1986.
He became further integrated into the Reds’ backroom setup just 13 years later, when the late Gerard Houllier offered him the position of kitman.
The 69-year-old will call time on an illustrious spell in which the club has won every major honour, including last year’s long-awaited Premier League title.
Ahead of his final outing in Sunday’s encounter with Crystal Palace, Jurgen Klopp paid a glowing tribute to Carter’s decades of service to Liverpool.
He said: “We will say goodbye to Graham Carter.
“That will definitely happen, that we say goodbye to Graham Carter – kit man for 35, or even more, years at the club.
“The best kit man I ever had. We have a really good one here, but the most experienced kit man I ever had.
“Father figure, grandfather figure, whatever you want.
“We will say goodbye to him in an appropriate way.”