Liverpool boss Juergen Klopp jokingly questioned why he nonetheless had a job as clubs across the Premier League sacked their managers because the season enters its residence stretch.
Chelsea sacked Graham Potter on Sunday with the membership sitting eleventh within the league, hours after relegation-threatened Leicester City parted methods with Brendan Rodgers. Meanwhile, Tottenham Hotspur additionally parted methods with Antonio Conte late final month.
Klopp has been at Liverpool since 2015 however regardless of guiding them to Premier League and Champions League titles, he’s beneath strain with the Anfield membership eighth within the standings — eight factors off the highest 4 after dropping 4-1 to Manchester City.
“What can I say about that (the sackings)? The elephant in the room is probably why am I still sitting here in this crazy world? Last man standing,” Klopp instructed reporters forward of Tuesday’s sport towards Chelsea.
“So I think both clubs are not in the spots where they expect to be… I respect them (Potter and Rodgers) a lot. Really good people and fantastic managers, both of them. But things can go wrong.
“We all settle for that a part of the enterprise, however that is it. Conte was final week, (Julian) Nagelsmann and now these two. The season is in a decisive half, folks are afraid of possibly not reaching their targets.”
Nagelsmann was shockingly sacked by Bayern Munich during the international break despite being in a much healthier position in the league.
The Premier League has had a record 12 managers sacked this season, which Klopp described as an “terrible quantity”.
“It is how it’s. Some clubs are beneath reaching, undoubtedly us too… There are expectations on the market, rightly so, and if you happen to do not attain them, then you must settle for the selections,” he said.
On his own future, the German manager said Liverpool have “sensible house owners” but he did not like the fact that he was still in the job because of his previous success with the club.
“I’m right here to ship, I’m not right here as a talisman or for murals on homes’ partitions,(*12*)I do know as nicely I’m nonetheless right here due to what occurred in the previous few years, I do not like the truth that I’ve to depend on that.
“But we have to sort it, we cannot just continue playing like we do from time to time. Not always, thank god. That’s not allowed, really. I’m really disappointed about us, but it happens and we have to find a way out.”
