Will Jurgen Klopp Leave Liverpool On A Whimper?

Last night was just so frustrating. I really hope Liverpool can win the league by some miracle and we don’t go out of that with a whimper too. For me, we’ve only really had 3 successful / title challenging seasons in Jurgen Klopp’s era and that was 18/19 (2nd and Champions League (CL)), 19/20 (Premier League (PL)) and 21/22 (2nd and Cup double).

The first 3 years of his tenure was building us up from nothing, so being successful or mounting a legitimate challenge wasn’t really possible, but the job Klopp did in those early years to rebuild on a limited budget was still exceptional. Nobody can deny that or ever take it away from him. That 5 year build up to winning the league was magical for the Liverpool FC family.

The 4 years that have come after the league title winning season has mostly been chalk and cheese though compared to how it began though and the 21/22 Quad chase is starting to look like the blip in this period! Especially considering we started investing so much more in the playing staff and it just hasn’t pushed us on to the next level (in my opinion due to the change in tactics away from what brought us the success).

In 20/21 we immediately followed winning the league with a dreadful season where Alisson had to score a header against West Brom to scrape 4th. Then the 21/22 season we may have come away with the League and FA Cup, but we got found out in the CL final against Madrid and lost the league by 1 point. 22/23 was the worst season of the lot finishing outside the top 4 and just generally not playing well all year with only a Community Shield to show for ourselves.

Then 23/24 season we’ve yet again limped through the season scraping a League Cup final against Chelsea and we’re now on the cusp of bottling all 3 of the other pieces of silverware in less than a month. We were running on emotion and it’s all just derailed itself.

I’ll be gutted if the Klopp era ends with only 1 PL and 1 CL in the middle. Klopp and the players can’t let that happen, surely? That just would not do justice to the emotional journey we’ve all been on together. Klopp is the best manager we’ve had in my lifetime, but if we don’t win the league this season, has he arguably under achieved? 18/19, 19/20 and 21/22 are the only season’s where you can argue we’ve really given it a right go in the title race and come away with a decent return in terms of silverware.

3 seasons in 8 as it stands and I know he was hampered at the start by what he inherited, but the…