one of my most controversial opinions is that Jurgen Klopp just isn’t that good. Won hardly anything for the squad he had.
that’s not to minimise Slots achievement which is fantastic, especially in season 1
I mean pipped to the league by City twice, when Liverpool themselves got 92 and and 97 points. Basically coming across a gulf oil state when whilst spending money are more pragmatic about it than other elite sides.
Then the spend 16/17 - 23/24 (Klopp was autumn 2015)
Liverpool Income 90, 184, 41, 48, 17,31, 81, 60 = 552
Liverpool expenditure 126, 173, 182, 10, 85, 94, 146, 172= 988
Net 436m
City Income 35, 91, 57, 71, 64, 94, 162, 138= 712
City Expenditure 216, 318, 78, 99, 174, 140, 155, 260= 1,44billion
Net 728m
436m net spend over 8 season, 54m a year and we know for a fact that the city wages etc blow liverpool out the water so factor that in to.
Inherited a side that had finished 6th, some 20 points behind city and included world beaters such as Balotelli, Origi, Lambert etc
Could arguably have another 2 prem titles on his hands when the City 115 drops, dont think it works like that but on a technicality, took the rag and tag liverpool side to the euopra final, losing to emmerys incredible seviilla and he lost two champions league finals to madrid, the second in close fashion and the first was an absolute farce in which ramos purposefully went out and crippled salah and didnt even get a card, and salah was HIM at that moment.
Not to mention the regular obliterations of Peps city and just the blood and thunder football and not this metronomic possession nonsense we see that dominates the landscape.