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Jurgen Klopp will be partly to blame if the Premier League is not completed and Liverpool receives the title, according to a former Reds foe.
Former Wimbledon player and Northern Ireland manager Lawrie Sanchez does not believe the season will be fully completed and Liverpool’s achievement, even if they were awarded the title, would be forever tarnished with an asterisk next to their name in the log books.
The last Premier League club meeting on Monday again confirmed the clubs’ desire to complete the season, with match suggestions that can still be played on club grounds rather than neutral venues.
But with some players like Sergio Agüero and Danny Rose continuing to express concern about restarting as early as next month, when the daily death tolls are still in the hundreds, Sánchez, who scored the Wimbledon winner against Liverpool in the final the 1988 FA Cup. – He told the Irish Independent that he doesn’t see how football can start again in June.
He said: “For me, the plans they are preparing will not come true and the season will never end.”
“Sergio Agüero came out and said he was concerned about going back to football while we are still in the middle of this and that he will not be alone.”
“I don’t think players will be quarantined and not allowed to leave a team hotel for two months and if they go home after training they may live with older people, and that means many players will choose for not participating, playing.
“That means playing against weakened teams, in empty stadiums and all the teams that play on neutral grounds. Do we really want to see that?
“So what happens when it turns out that a player or a coach or even a physio has contracted the virus? Is it necessary to quarantine the whole team for two weeks and put all their games back? I can’t see it and it’s because of That I think the plans they are working out will never happen.
“Although it would be nice to see the promotion and relegation ordered before having a break and waiting for the virus to be controlled or neutralized by a vaccine, but that all seems like a long shot at the moment.”
Sánchez, who led the third-tier Wycombe Wanderers to the FA Cup semifinals in 2001, where they lost to Liverpool at Villa Park, also believes that the winter break that came this season, that Jurgen Klopp was a defender of High profile, cost him. The Reds have a chance to tie the title before soccer was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I think you can declare Liverpool as champion, but you should have him as champion with an asterisk forever,” he said.
“It is ironic that Klopp was the manager pushing more than anyone for a winter break and because they had that break in the season, Liverpool lost all of their momentum and the fall in form and time taken out of the season means they could Having had they won the league by now if they didn’t have that break.
“If the league is not complete, I don’t think anyone would object to them being champions, as they are way ahead on top, but there will always be that mark against them because they never made it to the finish line.”
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