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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp brazenly said “who cares” when asked if Manchester United will go 30 years without winning a top flight title. He also attacked Arsenal by stating that they are no longer a “suitable” rival.
Liverpool are three points behind league leaders United heading into Sunday night’s clash.
Klopp ended the Reds’ 30-year wait for a Premier League title in emphatic fashion last year.
United have not finished in first place since Sir Alex Ferguson announced his retirement in 2013.
Liverpool had to spend many years watching the Red Devils lift trophies in abundance under their legendary coach.
Now it might be Klopp’s turn to inflict decades of misery on his closest rivals.
But the Liverpool manager says no one will care if United go three decades without claiming the Premier League title.
“United’s potential is incredible, of course, so I don’t know about the next thirty years, but who cares?” Klopp smiled.
“It’s no surprise that United couldn’t win it in the last eight years. Because if you are not in a prominent place and you do not play the best possible football that year you cannot win it.
“The fact that you are Man United or Liverpool doesn’t mean anything. You win because you are the best in that specific season.
“They may have been close once, but then City came out in a crazy way and won it many times, Chelsea was still there, Leicester did in 2016. But I’m surprised United didn’t win, no.”
Meanwhile, Klopp also reflected on his five years at the helm of Liverpool and how each of his rivals has changed.
In a sly comment on the Gunners, Klopp explains how they are no longer a threat.
“I needed time not only because of the team we had, but much more because of the situation other clubs were in,” he said.
“They were just on a different level.
“Manchester United was on a different level when I arrived, City was on a completely different level, Chelsea of course a different level, Leicester became champion that year, Arsenal was still a suitable and suitable team, Tottenham was second in the year I arrived.
“So we didn’t have to solve our own problems, we had to go back to being competitive, that was the first thing.
“But of course that wasn’t enough for the people, they didn’t want to hear me say, ‘We have to beat Tottenham first and then them and then them, we have to come piece by piece.’
“They wanted me to say, ‘We’ll be there next summer,’ and that, of course, was impossible.
“We gave ourselves the time and that was what made the difference.”
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