Jürgen Klopp, Liverpool coach, he warned his Premier League rivals that his team will not stop in his quest for more success after securing the title on Thursday. Chelsea's 2-1 victory against second-placed Pep Guardiola's Manchester City allowed the ‘reds’ to become champions of England for the first time in 30 years.
Klopp is a great idol for the Anfield fans. “You are everything to me”, the followers sang when celebrating the title. Steven Gerrard, legendary former captain of Liverpool, said a few days ago that “we must prepare a statue for Jürgen.” But this Friday Klopp made it clear that “I do not want a statue, it is not my motivation,” he told the Sky channel.
Looking to July 2, when Liverpool will visit City as champion, Klopp said that the 'red' players will come out as usual. “We are champions but on the pitch we will behave as if we have never won anything.”
This Friday, hours after the noise, Klopp attended several media in a videoconference. “The consistency that the boys showed is really so exceptional that I cannot describe it and we will not stop, we will not stop,” he said.
We will not stop means that we want better, not that we will win everything
“We really have to stay focused, and we will, we see the opportunity … but 'we will not stop' does not mean we will win everything, we just want to improve,” added the German Liverpool coach. Very happy, Klopp stated that “in the history of Liverpool this burden of 30 years will no longer be without winning a league title and we had to create our own history, which is our wonderful background, the basis for what we do.”
However Klopp, who a year ago won the Champions League with Liverpool against Tottenham, said that there is no guarantee of greater glory for the quality of the rivals in the English championship.
“The other teams are already really good and will be better, City is absolutely exceptional. Therefore, I cannot promise that we will win everything, but I can promise that we will try everything to improve ”, were the words of Klopp.
“That is possible because there are parts of football that we can improve, of course. Consistency is difficult to improve, if we can maintain that level of consistency it would already be really good. But we are in a good place, that is why we are here. ”
Last season, Liverpool lost a game and scored 97 points, but stayed one of the then champion, the City of Pep Guardiola, which shows that there is little margin for error when trying to be English champion.
“We knew that if you want to win the league, you are practically not allowed to lose any game because City generally does not lose. They never stop since Pep is there, so they never stop, and we will try too. We will try not to stop, to improve and make things happen and make them special. “
“We did not do more than last year, we did it again. I'm not sure it was possible to do more, from the point of view of training and intensity, we were already squeezing everything out. ”