The 2023/24 Premier League season is over, and in the final round, Liverpool beat Wolverhampton Wanderers by 2-0 at Anfield, courtesy of goals from Alexis Mac Allister in the 34th minute and Jarell Quansah in the 40th. The Reds’ job was made a little easier by a reckless moment from Wolves right-back Nelson Semedo, who earned a straight red card for foul on Mac Allister, six minutes before the Argentina international scored the opening goal.
But with the points from this game meaning very little for either side going into it, the focus of every home fan inside the iconic venue was on bidding farewell to Jurgen Klopp, who sat in the Anfield dugout for the last time.
Klopp’s farewell
Klopp succeeded Brendan Rodgers as the Liverpool manager back in October 2015. At the time, the Reds had fallen far from their glory from the late ’70s and throughout the ’80s. The entire Rodgers tenure went without a single trophy added to the cabinet, and though Liverpool came very close to winning the league title in 2013/14 for the first time since 1990, the campaign was mostly fueled by the brilliance of Luis Suarez who left the club the following summer, and the last season of strong influence from the iconic captain Steven Gerrard. Ironically, it was Gerrard whose infamous “slip” eventually lost his team the race, and Rodgers simply wasn’t able to build on what had been achieved.
Having been already known for his charisma from his Borussia Dortmund days, Klopp started building a similar reputation from his first interview as the Liverpool boss, stressing the need for the Reds to “turn from doubters to believers”, and pointing out that returning to the very top of football would be no easy task.
“If I sit here in four years, I am pretty confident we will have one title,” he said, and even such a cautiously optimistic statement, caused some from rival camps and the British media to smirk with skepticism.
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Author : Veselin Trajkovic
Publish date : 2024-05-20 09:03:50
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