Liverpool the team to beat this season. Klopp is doing some job.
But Chelsea are top…
Liverpool do have the best manager in the league in Klopp. That’s not enough though when you’re going head to head with the limitless resources of the three super franchises Chelsea and the two Manchesters. FGS have increased significantly the level of investment and Liverpool who have more or less operated at the same level as Spurs for the last decade have well and truly left Spurs behind now. Obviously the money Klopp has at his disposal still pales in comparison to what Chelsea can spend, financially backed by the rogue Russian state. Chelsea lashed out £72 million this summer on a rookie 23 year old goalkeeper from a mid table team in Spain. To put that in perspective for a normal soccer club subject to economic constraints, Spurs had to make do yesterday with fielding a starting XI which cost a combined total of £83.5 million to assemble, with six of the starting XI costing a combined total of just £11.5 million.
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Klopp hasn’t won a trophy with Liverpool in three seasons.
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Just two full seasons. Rome wasn’t built in a day. The hapless Brendan Rodgers was the incumbent at the start of season 2015/16. Klopp had to come and pick up the mess Rodgers had left. From recollection, his first game in charge was a sterile 0-0 draw at White Hart Lane against Spurs. Some difference 3 years on in the level of performance in London against Spurs.
He had Liverpool in a bigger mess at the end of the season. Look at the gap between Liverpool and Leicester in Klopp’s first season when Rodgers was sacked and at the close of the season. Ranieri managed to take Leicester 15 points ahead of Liverpool that season under Klopp.
Very few managers who break world transfer records for defenders and goalkeepers would be given the courtesy 4 years to win a trophy.
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Klopp finished above where Rodgers had Liverpool in the table when he left
And 15 points further behind Leicester at the end of the season.
Any season where a manager inherits the reins once its up and running is invariably a write off. He inherited Rodgers players and his hands were tied with those effectively until the end of that season. Klopp has had two full seasons as Liverpool coach now. He’s delivered European Cup football in both of those seasons. Prior to that, Liverpool had failed to secure European Cup football in 6 out of 7 seasons. He’s steadied the ship, built the foundation over the last two seasons. Liverpool are now in a position to challenge for and win the big prizes.
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As time goes by gaps tend to get bigger. Of course Rodgers was closer to Leicester when the season wasn’t on long when he was sacked. As I told you before anyway Klopp is an appointment you make for the long term and it seems I am being proven correct
Not many big clubs will write a season off for a manager.
Klopp would have been out the door now at most big clubs.
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Thank fuck I dont watch this shite anymore — the same people re-hashing the same arguments for 2 years now… just like football itself, unimaginative. You;ve a lad then claiming big clubs would rather a coca-cola cup win over a champions league final 
— He thinks boardrooms are run by fans who want mickey mouse trophies and not millions generated — the child like simplicity of some people is very refreshing in this horrible cynical modern age.
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The gap between little Leicester City and Liverpool.
I’m saying clubs would prefer to win trophies, as opposed to not winning them.
Klopp is a long term manager. You don’t seem to be able to get this through your head
A long term manager? Not many managers are given the sort of license to fail he has at big clubs.
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He hasn’t failed. They’ve steadily got better each season and are now one of the best teams in Europe
He has failed to win a trophy.
Managers are remembered for being successful and winning trophies, particularly at big clubs.
A big club would sack him for making millions by getting to a CL final
Yes, big clubs sack managers for not winning trophies.