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  • EPL: Klopp admits Liverpool ‘lost the plot’ against Villa

    EPL: Klopp admits Liverpool ‘lost the plot’ against Villa

    Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp admits his side ‘lost the plot’ in Sunday’s 7-2 loss to Aston Villa.

    The reigning Premier League champions were blown away at Villa Park, with Ollie Watkins bagging himself a hat-trick.

    And Klopp said there was no excuses after the shocking defeat.

    He said: “Yes [I can believe it] I saw it. So it is easy to believe because I was here. First of all you have to say that Villa did very well. They were very physical, very smart and very direct, we were not.

    “We had big chances which we did not use, but when you concede seven I’m not sure you can say it would have been 7-7. We made too many mistakes and massive ones obviously. It started with the first goal and around the goals we made massive mistakes.

    “We lost balls in the wrong area and did not protect properly. It looked like we lost the plot after it went to 1-0. It is not an excuse. Normally you can be 1-0 down and do the stuff you want to do. We created but did not protect ourselves properly so each ball we lost was a massive counter attack.

    “That is why we conceded and three goals were deflected. It’s unlucky but it is not a coincidence because it means it was not a proper block. There is nobody to blame apart from me and us.”

    Asked why his side lost the plot, Klopp continued: “It was unexpected but it happened tonight. For me it wasn’t a specific moment, we put all our rubbish things and mistakes in one game and hopefully we can start again.

    “Tonight wasn’t sloppy, it was just bad, I have to admit that but I can’t change it. I would love to have a training session tomorrow and Tuesday and to talk about it but the boys go back off to international duty. Hopefully they come back healthy and we use the two days to prepare for Everton.”

  • EPL: Good to beat Chelsea now, says Klopp

    EPL: Good to beat Chelsea now, says Klopp

    Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp played down the significance of their 2-0 win at Chelsea.

    However, he admits they caught Chelsea at the right time with the new-look team yet to gel.

    He said, “I liked the performance a lot. We are not playing for two things: three points and showing everybody ‘you better be ready when we arrive’ or whatever. That is not us. The next game will be incredibly difficult immediately for their own reasons because Arsenal are obviously flying for a few months already.

    “It will be really tough, but for ourselves, if we feel the way we play with adaptations, with improvements, with developments, it made us successful and will make us successful if we really throw it consistently onto the pitch. So, a Chelsea game away will be for the next 500 years one of the most difficult games you can ever play – and it will become even more difficult now when for Chelsea all of the things settle. That’s clear. For today, it was difficult enough for us but we did it and I am happy about that.”

  • Klopp laments EPL’s return to 3 substitutes

    Klopp laments EPL’s return to 3 substitutes

    Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp on Friday expressed his disagreement with the Premier League’s decision to return to a system of allowing up to three substitutes in a match instead of five.

    The German said it was not based on facts, and the well-being of players was not taken into consideration.

    In May, football’s rule-making body IFAB changed the regulations governing the maximum number of substitutes.

    This was to help teams battling fixture congestion as they looked to complete the season after a three-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    IFAB left it to individual leagues to decide if they wanted to adopt the rule this season and Premier League clubs voted at their annual general meeting last month against continuing to allow the use of five substitutes in each game.

    “I thought from a common sense point of view it would be clear we will have 20 (players in the squad) and five (substitutes),” Klopp told reporters. “It’s not an advantage. I don’t like that. We deal with this thing around the wrong facts.

    “It’s about players’ welfare and the highest quality in games for all teams…

    “Look at the other countries, Bayern (Munich) have the best team and have an advantage with the five subs (in the Bundesliga), but they play the most games.

    “Now it is 18 (in the squad) and three (substitutes). So, you have to rotate more. You need numbers and fit players. That’s the job we have to do. We have to make the decisions.”

    Champions Liverpool host second tier title holders Leeds United in their first match of the new campaign on Saturday and Klopp expects Marcelo Bielsa’s side to thrive in the top flight.

    “It’s not the most expansive style where they will open up. They are well-drilled and the way they defend is exceptional — pretty much man-marking plus one,” Klopp said.

    “They will face challenges because… some different animals are around than in the Championship (second tier).

    “But they will do well in the Premier League. It suits them more than the Championship and now they can show their full potential.”

  • Liverpool boss, Jurgen Klopp wins Premier League manager of the season

    Liverpool boss, Jurgen Klopp wins Premier League manager of the season

    Liverpool FC coach, Jurgen Klopp has been named Premier League manager of the season after guiding the club to their first league title in three decades.

    The 53-year-old German beat Chelsea’s Frank Lampard, Leicester City’s Brendan Rodgers, who Klopp replaced at Liverpool in 2015, and Sheffield United’s Chris Wilder.

    Liverpool coasted to the title, they narrowly lost out on to Manchester City in the previous campaign.

    They garnered 99 points, winning 32 of their 38 league games, to finish 18 points clear of Manchester City.

    Klopp, who coached Liverpool to the Champions League trophy in the 2018/19 season, picked up in July the League Manager’s Association manager of the year award.

    The Premier League award – Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold won the young player gong on Friday — is a cumulation of votes from the public combined with those of a panel of football experts.

  • Liverpool not arrogant, you need to learn – Klopp tells Lampard

    Liverpool not arrogant, you need to learn – Klopp tells Lampard

    Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has snapped back at Chelsea rival Frank Lampard after Wednesday’s blow-up at Anfield.

    Footage emerged which shows the moment the Chelsea boss lost his cool and exploded into a heated, foul-mouthed argument with Klopp and the Liverpool bench, repeatedly telling his counterpart to “f*** off”.

    “We are not arrogant. We are pretty much the opposite,” Klopp said on Friday.

    “Frank was in a competitive mood, I respect that a lot. For me after the game it’s over. What Frank has to learn is to finish it with the last whistle.

    “Speaking about it after that is not okay. During the game, words used ok, But final whistle, close the book. He didn’t do that and I don’t like that.

    “From my point of view you can say what you want, it’s after the game it’s completely over. I’ve said a lot in the past.

    “He came here to win the game to make Chelsea qualify for Champions League. I respect that a lot, what he has to learn to finish it with the last whistle. He didn’t do that.”

  • EPL: Don’t get arrogant, Lampard warns Liverpool

    EPL: Don’t get arrogant, Lampard warns Liverpool

    Frank Lampard sent a warning to Liverpool after Wednesday’s eight-goal thriller at Anfield.

    The Reds won 5-3 on a special night in which they lifted the Premier League trophy for the first time in 30 years.

    Lampard exchanged words with Liverpool’s bench after Trent Alexander-Arnoldmade it 2-0 with a terrific free-kick.

    And the Englishman says his counterparts shouldn’t get ‘arrogant’ about their title victory.

    “For me it wasn’t a foul from Kovacic,” he said. “And there were a lot of things that were ongoing.

    “And on the bench, I’ve got no problem with Jurgen Klopp; he’s managed this team and it’s fantastic. [But] some of the bench, there’s a fine line between when you’re winning — and they’ve won the league, fair play to Liverpool Football Club — but also don’t get too arrogant with it.

    “That was my thing. But done. That’s it. In match play you get emotional, and that was it.”

  • Jurgen Klopp confirms Liverpool exit plan

    Jurgen Klopp confirms Liverpool exit plan

    Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp has revealed when he may leave the club and return to Germany.

    The German also said it is not clear at the moment whether he stays in football after the Liverpool job.

    The former Borussia Dortmund manager says he will manage Liverpool for the next four seasons.

    Klopp has spent five years at Liverpool after taking over from Brendan Rodgers in 2015. He has guided the Reds to a Champions League trophy and their very first Premier League title in 30 years.

    He signed a new contract at Anfield in December 2019, which tied him to the club until 2024, should he avoid being sacked.

    Asked if he was planning on returning to Germany, Klopp told SWR, “Definitely to live, after my career. Most likely even to Mainz.”

    On how long he’ll remain at Anfield, he added: “Four years in Liverpool.”

    After that he confirmed he may be interested in returning to management, but added he may retire from football.

    He said: “In five years the world can look very different again.”

  • Jurgen Klopp writes open letter to people of Liverpool

    Jurgen Klopp writes open letter to people of Liverpool

    Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has penned an open letter to the people of Liverpool – including Everton fans – after the Reds were confirmed Premier League champions.

    Klopp admits it was the first time he’d written to a newspaper, but felt moved by what the club has achieved.

    Published in the Liverpool Echo, the letter in part read: “I have the great privilege of being manager of Liverpool Football Club. It is a privilege that I carry with me every single day because I know that I am working for you. I knew that Liverpool was a special place before I came here almost five years ago but it is only when you get to know the people that you feel the city’s heartbeat and then you are able to realise just how special it is.

    “This does not only apply to Liverpool fans either. I am obviously biased because Liverpool is my club but I am not so biased that I cannot see that Everton fans are the other side of the same coin and that the rivalry that exists is so important to the city’s identity.

    “I know that this is not their favourite time and if roles were reversed it would not be our favourite time either but in Carlo Ancelotti, Everton have a great manager and a great person and I have no doubt in my mind that their improvement since he arrived will only continue. Everton is a great rival in every sense. I do not need anyone to remind me of this.

    “For us to finish above Everton and the 18 other Premier League clubs is an unbelievable achievement. I respect all of them because between us we combine to make English football so competitive and so compelling that people all around the world are captivated by it.”

     

  • Klopp hoping to keep Liverpool’s EPL-winning squad intact

    Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp said on Saturday his main focus now was to ensure the squad that delivered the Merseyside club’s first top flight title in three decades was intact.

    The German said his task was to see to it the squad was not broken up in the near future.

    Liverpool’s 30-year wait for their 19th English top flight title ended on Thursday after second-placed Manchester City were beaten by Chelsea.

    It gave Klopp’s side an unassailable 23-point lead with seven games left.

    Klopp, who took charge of Liverpool in 2015, has overseen a period of sustained dominance, delivering the UEFA Champions League last season and the league title this year.

    “I cannot promise we will dominate football now, nor do I know if it is time to talk about major upheavals,” he told German newspaper Bild. “But I know our goal is to keep the team together.”

    The 53-year-old Klopp believes Liverpool are not in the same boat as his former club Borussia Dortmund.

    The German side lost key players such as Shinji Kagawa and Robert Lewandowski in the seasons that followed their back-to-back title triumphs in the Bundesliga in 2011 and 2012.

    “The problem was that our (Borussia Dortmund) team was picked up by other clubs. That hasn’t happened here and now the team has been exceptionally consistent for two and a half years,” the German added.

    Borussia Dortmund’s Jadon Sancho is a transfer target for Liverpool, according to British media reports, but Klopp admitted he does not envisage his side making a move for the English winger.

    “The red jersey will look very good for Jadon. But I don’t think such a transfer will take place this summer. If he moved to Liverpool, I would be the most surprised of all,” he said.

  • EPL: Liverpool’s history not burden anymore, says Klopp

    Liverpool are no longer burdened by their painful 30-year title drought and have written a new chapter in the club’s history after they were confirmed Premier League champions, Manager Jurgen Klopp said on Friday.

    The Anfield club, which dominated English soccer in the 1970s and 1980s, last won the old First Division title in 1990, but have finished as runners-up five times since.

    Seven different managers have tried and failed to recapture Liverpool’s long-lost domestic glory before Klopp arrived at Anfield in 2015 to — in his own words — turn the Merseyside club from “doubters into believers”.

    “Without knowing it at the time, that was probably the most important thing I said to my players, that we have to create our own stories and history,” Klopp told Sky Sports.

    “Meanwhile, the history is no burden anymore. The history is now our wonderful background, it is the basis for what we are doing.

    “When I came in, we had to say, ‘Don’t compare us anymore with the fantastic people who played for this club and won everything in the past’. We needed to get the opportunity from our supporters to find our own way.”

    Klopp, who also delivered Liverpool’s sixth Champions League crown last season, dismissed the idea of having a statue made in his honour, like former managers Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley, who have been cast in bronze outside Anfield.

    “I don’t want a statue, that is not my motivation,” the German manager said.

    “It’s clear the team are in a good moment, we are young enough to still go for something.

    “It’s a moment like last year’s Champions League final, you carry on. It’s good to be in this club at the moment.”

    Liverpool’s next match is a trip to Manchester City next week, and Klopp laughed at the idea of receiving a guard of honour from last year’s champions as well as any other opponent they play in their remaining games.

    “We’ll see, I don’t think we can influence that. “We are champions, and on the pitch, we will behave as though we have never won it,” he added.