Another bad defeat for Liverpool at Wolves puts the club in a difficult position, but what do you do if results are bad but the manager is unsackable?
It’s been a familiar sight in recent weeks, but at the end of his team’s 3-0 defeat at the hands of Wolves the Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp both looked and sounded a little broken by it all.
A thoroughly unhappy afternoon in the Black Country was rounded off by him snapping at a journalist in the post-match press conference, a reaction which may have been understandable considering the pressure growing around him in recent weeks, but absolutely not a successful ending to a pretty dismal weekend.
When Liverpool first returned after the World Cup break, it seemed some of the problems which had plagued the first half of their season may have receded. Two straight wins against Aston Villa and Leicester City lifted them back up to sixth place in the Premier League table. The charge for a European place was back on, alongside a run at defending the two domestic cups that they won last year and another pop at the Champions League.
It’s taken less than six weeks for much of this optimism to disintegrate again. Beaten by Manchester City in the EFL Cup and Brighton in the FA Cup, Liverpool’s defence of their domestic trophies is over for this season, while the Champions League round of 16 draw has given them a formidable two-legged tie to win against Real Madrid. Meanwhile in the Premier League, they’re without a win in 2023, with just a single point to show for their four league games.
A point from a torpid game against Chelsea was a return of sorts, but their other three league games didn’t just end in defeat; Liverpool conceded three goals against Brighton, Brentford and Wolves, and even more troubling was that the performances in all three of these games was poor, with few signs of things improving. At many – likely most – football clubs, such a state of affairs would lead to pretty swift action being taken. We live in an era of the hire ’em and fire ’em culture with regard to managers; a run of bad results would be enough to ensure that most managers simply get the push.
But Liverpool isn’t just any football club, and Jurgen Klopp isn’t just any Liverpool manager. He has built up an enormous amount of credit for what he has achieved with the club, winning them a Champions League trophy and their first English league title in more than 30 years. In the league of unsackable managers,…
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