Liverpool supervisor Jurgen Klopp says his aspect won’t relaxation on their laurels subsequent season after ending a 30-year wait to win the Premier League. The newly topped champions head to closest challengers Manchester Metropolis on Thursday trying to construct on their 23-point lead on the high of the desk. Klopp warned of the menace that Metropolis, a resurgent Manchester United and Chelsea, bolstered by the signings of Timo Werner and Hakim Ziyech, would pose subsequent season. Nonetheless, he dismissed any notion that Liverpool will slacken off after setting a record-breaking tempo to assert the title with seven video games to spare this season.
“We won’t defend the title subsequent yr, we are going to assault it,” mentioned Klopp on a videoconference on Wednesday.
“I’ve discovered while you suppose you’ve got reached the head, you might be already on the way in which down.”
“We do not really feel that. I do not really feel lastly happy. It is one other step. It is a large one, an unbelievably large one, however not the one factor I wish to discuss with the boys about in 20 years’ time.”
There have been wild celebrations from Klopp, his gamers and Liverpool followers final Thursday when Metropolis’s 2-1 defeat at Chelsea lastly ended the three-decade wait.
However having had their title celebration delayed by three months because of the coronavirus pandemic, Klopp desires to complete the season strongly and get again in rhythm forward of a fast turnaround into the 2020/21 marketing campaign.
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“We put together Man Metropolis with full focus,” mentioned the German. “That does not imply we are going to beat them, however it means we’re ready. That’s how we are going to put together subsequent season as properly.
“We aren’t drained. We’re simply in the course of one thing.”
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