The transfer window didn’t gain Jurgen Klopp many friends, especially in Catalonia, where he’s been seen by the media as an enemy.
The local press are still annoyed with the Liverpool manager for his repeated public statement ruling out a Philippe Coutinho move to Barcelona. How dare he.
And after the Reds’ 4-1 loss against Tottenham, Sport found the perfect timing to have a rage against him.
They say Spurs have ‘applied the definitive KO’ to Klopp’s chance of the title, even though the manager was sure he could fight for the trophy with the current squad.
Sport claims Klopp thought Salah, Firmino and Mané would be an offensive trio that could be compared to Barcelona’s Dembele, Messi and Suarez, or PSG’s Neymar, Cavani and Mbappe, or Real Madrid’s Cristiano, Bale and Benzema.
That’s why he told Liverpool’s owners FSG that they should keep Coutinho, say Sport, and it wasn’t necessary to spend millions like Manchester City and PSG, because the squad was good enough to lift the trophy.
There are fourteen paragraphs of annoyance against Klopp, saying he thought he could live Leicester City’s fairy tale, but hasn’t been able to do that. The German is presented as Liverpool’s fool, living in an alternative reality, there’s a great irony to the whole thing.
Sport is really acting like a spoiled child who didn’t get the Birthday present it asked for. Klopp, on the other hand, is doing his job as any other person would.
