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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is confident that the “power of the club” means that they will never be without Champions League football for long.
While Klopp is not considering the possibility of not qualifying for Europe’s elite competition this period, he insists Liverpool will not return to the wild years of the early 2000s.
After spending eight of the 10 seasons in the Champions League since the 2001-02 season, they spent six seasons from the 2010-11 either in the Europa League or out of Europe altogether.
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Having won the tournament for the sixth time in 2019, their current streak of four consecutive seasons is threatened after they lost a beat in the race for the top four.
Liverpool, however, hold a 2-0 lead heading into their round of 16 tie against RB Leipzig next week.
Liverpool have a 2-0 lead heading into their round of 16 tie against RB Leipzig next week.
Before Sunday’s home game against Fulham, live Sky sports, Klopp sought to allay fears that missing this season would be the precursor to another long absence.
“This club will not be a regular outside of the Champions League. This year is difficult, we know, but the potential and the power of the club is completely different,” he said.
“I have not known the team for 10 years but we are ready for a battle in this era, and with the team that we have together.
“The seasons have momentum and we never made it this year, that’s true, but this club is in a very good position. In a difficult time, obviously, but in a better position than other clubs, I would say.
“Obviously I did not think about what happened in the past but what I can say is that nobody has to worry about the future of the club because it is in good hands and they have a very good team together, and that is obviously the basis of a good future. . “
The loss of Champions League football would mean that the club would suffer a significant financial impact in addition to the ongoing effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Jamie Carragher assesses where it all went wrong for Liverpool this season after Klopp’s side suffered their fifth straight loss at home
It could also affect the composition of the team both in the transfer window and in terms of players who may want to leave.
Klopp dismissed that prospect and marked a hard line in terms of players for whom the Champions League was a priority.
“I know we have the loyalty of the players. It is not a situation where a player on the squad says, ‘We are not in the Champions League, so I have to go.’ That will not happen. I know them well enough to know it. ” that, “said the manager.
“The club is in a different situation and it will not be a problem with new players, I can say that.
“We said it years ago if a player doesn’t want to come to us because we don’t play the Champions League next season, then I don’t want him.
“And if a player wants to leave because we don’t play the Champions League, then I don’t want it. It’s not something personal, but it’s always like that.
“You always need to find the right team for the challenges you face. Then do it. It’s nothing I worry about.”
Klopp: Salah’s frustration with the substitution is a ‘normal problem’
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Jamie Carragher questions Liverpool’s decision to take out top scorer Mo Salah when they needed a goal during their loss to Chelsea
Klopp says Mohamed Salah’s frustration at being substituted during Liverpool’s Premier League loss to Chelsea on Thursday is a “normal problem” as he praised the forward’s excellent goal record this season.
Salah, who has scored 17 goals this season, the most goals in the league, was visibly unhappy and shook his head after being replaced in the 62nd minute of the Reds’ fifth straight loss at Anfield.
Liverpool manager Klopp revealed after the game that he had made the substitution because the Egyptian international was “feeling the intensity.”
Right after the substitution, Salah’s agent Remy Abbas Issa posted a cryptic response to the change, tweeting just one point.
When Klopp was asked what he had to do to make sure there was no lasting problem, he replied: “Talk. That’s the way it always is. I’m not even sure if this situation is a reason for ‘proper talk’ about it.
“We were 1-0 down, that does not make any player happy, you leave and you can react in different ways because you are not happy with the general game.
“Besides that, they replace you [as] a striker and believes that he should stay on the field. All of that is completely clear and is a normal problem. It’s a normal life. “
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