Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp jokingly questioned why he nonetheless had a job as golf equipment across the Premier League sacked their managers because the season enters its house stretch.
Chelsea sacked Graham Potter on Sunday with the membership sitting eleventh within the league, hours after relegation-threatened Leicester City parted methods with Brendan Rodgers. Meanwhile, Tottenham Hotspur additionally parted methods with Antonio Conte late final month.
Klopp has been at Liverpool since 2015 however regardless of guiding it to Premier League and Champions League titles, he’s below strain with the Anfield membership eighth within the standings — eight factors off the highest 4 after shedding 4-1 to Manchester City.
“What can I say about that (the sackings)? The elephant in the room is probably why am I still sitting here in this crazy world? Last man standing,” Klopp advised reporters forward of Tuesday’s sport in opposition to Chelsea.
“So I think both clubs are not in the spots where they expect to be… I respect them (Potter and Rodgers) a lot. Really good people and fantastic managers, both of them. But things can go wrong.
“We all accept that part of the business, but that’s it. Conte was last week, (Julian) Nagelsmann and now these two. The season is in a decisive part, people are afraid of maybe not reaching their targets.”
Nagelsmann was shockingly sacked by Bayern Munich in the course of the worldwide break regardless of being in a a lot more healthy place within the league.
The Premier League has had a report 12 managers sacked this season, which Klopp described as an “awful number”.
“It is how it is. Some clubs are under achieving, definitely us too… There are expectations out there, rightly so, and if you don’t reach them, then you have to accept the decisions,” he stated.
On his personal future, the German supervisor stated Liverpool has “smart owners” however he didn’t like the truth that he was nonetheless within the job due to his earlier success with the membership.
“I’m here to deliver, I’m not here as a talisman or for murals on houses’ walls,” he stated.
“I know as well I’m still here because of what happened in the last few years, I don’t like the fact that I have to rely on that.
“But we have to sort it, we cannot just continue playing like we do from time to time. Not always, thank god. That’s not allowed, really. I’m really disappointed about us, but it happens and we have to find a way out.”
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com