Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool No. 2, Zeljko Buvac, Reportedly Granted Work Permit

New Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp will have his most trusted coaching assistant with him for the first game of his tenure, after Zeljko Buvac was granted a work permit.

James Pearce of the Liverpool Echo reports:

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New Liverpool assistant boss Zeljko Buvac has been given the green light to start work alongside Jurgen Klopp. The 54-year-old experienced Bosnian coach will oversee training for the first time at Melwood on Wednesday afternoon after flying in to Merseyside.

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Simon Jones of the MailOnline earlier reported the man known as "the Brain" in Klopp's back room team was anxiously waiting for clearance to link up with the German before the Reds face Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane in Saturday's lunchtime kick-off. 

Buvac and Klopp were team-mates during their playing careers for Mainz in the 1990s, and they have partnered each other for 14 years in coaching, with the Bosnian as Klopp's assistant manager. 

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Klopp has started work at Melwood with assistant Peter Krawietz as they look to reshape Liverpool into top-four contenders.

The new manager has said he will give the current crop at Anfield time to impress himself and his coaching staff, proclaiming to Bild (h/t Jones): "I am not interested in how much money I will be allowed to spend in January. It is only October and I don't even know how many games there are left until the winter. But we clearly have plenty of games left and we will be taking a look at our own players first."

Liverpool have spent no time reshuffling their famed Boot Room after Klopp's appointment, with current assistant manager Sean O'Driscoll shown the door after just four months at Anfield, as reported by James Cambridge of the Express. Gary McAllister has also relinquished his coaching position, moving to an ambassadorial role within the club.

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Klopp faces the biggest challenge of his sporting life as he looks to manage outside of Germany for the first time in his career. Bundesliga expert Uli Hesse of ESPNFC.co.uk believes the coach may struggle, with his fellow countrymen finding it hard to make an impact on foreign shores:

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No matter how you look at it, the track record of German coaches abroad does not bode extremely well for Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool. However, he does like a challenge—and we may safely assume that he'll do better than Felix Magath, the first German coach in England's top flight, who got relegated with Fulham and was sacked when his team sank to last place in the second division.

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The name of Klopp carries a certain gravitas, and Liverpool have done extremely well to tempt the world-class manager to Anfield to take on one of the toughest jobs in Europe.

The German's profile fits the current needs that owners FSG crave, having both the acumen and personality to carry the weight of expectation. 

However, it will be difficult to translate the success of his time at Borussia Dortmund to a club who have failed to win the league title for a generation.