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2016 League Cup final: Manchester City beat Liverpool 3-1 on penalties. “Bottler.”
2016 Europa League final: Liverpool 1-3 Sevilla. “Fraud.”
2018 Champions League final: Real Madrid 3-1 Liverpool. “What’s he won?”
What has Jurgen Klopp won?
Jurgen Klopp has won the heart of a city who were starved of hope, starved of belief.
Jurgen Klopp has achieved the most unfathomable of results, the types of scorelines that you wouldn’t have allowed yourself to believe were possible.
Luis Suarez certainly had no qualms about celebrating against his former employers in the video below…
Mentality can take you a long way in football. It can also set you back an equally long way. Losing a cup final, let alone three of them, should have immeasurable consequences; only a master motivator can pick his side up to go again. And again. And again.
Klopp is that, and more.
His belief, his passion, his uniting of the players and the supporters; ask any supporter of the five-time Champions League winners if they would rather have won a Carabao Cup, or enjoyed the comeback wins over Borussia Dortmund and Barcelona, and they’ll say the latter.
Just look at Jose Mourinho and Manchester United. It really isn’t about trophies, at all.
One Carabao Cup, one Europa League title, one Community Shield. Great. The whole place is in disarray and the fans have never hated the players or the club more – they have even started a campaign against their own team on Twitter.
Tottenham fans will tell you the same. They’ll laugh in your face if you say that Mauricio Pochettino needs a Carabao Cup to cement his position as one of the best coaches in the world, and will also tell you that the night in Amsterdam they’ve just experienced is worth more than 100 Carabao Cup successes.
Football is about longevity. Football is about creating memories that will go down in the club’s history and stay with you for a lifetime – how many United fans can even discuss Mourinho’s legacy as positive despite collecting three pieces of silverware?
One of Pochettino or Klopp will be on the losing side in the Champions League final, and one will undoubtedly be called a bottlejob. A fraud. All of those things.
What have they won? A place in the memories and heart of each and every one of their club’s supporters.
Is that worth more than a trophy? Probably.
