Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has jokingly questioned why he nonetheless has a job, as golf equipment across the Premier League jettison their managers with the season getting into its house stretch.
Chelsea sacked Graham Potter on Sunday with the membership sitting 11th within the English Premier League, hours after relegation-threatened Leicester Metropolis parted methods with Brendan Rodgers.
Tottenham Hotspur parted methods with Antonio Conte late final month, whereas 12th-placed Crystal Palace allotted with the providers of Patrick Vieira.
Klopp has been at Liverpool since 2015 however regardless of guiding them to the Premier League and Champions League titles he’s below strain, with the Anfield membership a comparatively low eighth within the standings – eight factors off the highest 4 after shedding 4-1 to Manchester Metropolis on Friday.
“The elephant within the room might be, why am I nonetheless sitting right here on this loopy world? Final man standing,” Klopp informed reporters forward of Liverpool’s Tuesday conflict in opposition to Chelsea (Wednesday AEST).
“(Chelsea and Leicester) are usually not within the spots the place they count on to be. I respect (Potter and Rodgers) loads. Actually good individuals and implausible managers, each of them. However issues can go improper.
“All of us settle for that a part of the enterprise, however that is it. Conte was final week, (Bayern Munich coach Julian) Nagelsmann and now these two.
“The season is in a decisive half, individuals are afraid of possibly not reaching their targets.”
Nagelsmann was sacked by Bayern Munich throughout the current worldwide break together with his facet one level behind leaders Borussia Dortmund within the Bundesliga.
The Premier League has had a file 12 managers sacked this season, which Klopp described as an “terrible quantity”.
“It’s how it’s. Some golf equipment are under-achieving, positively us too,” he mentioned.
“There are expectations on the market, rightly so, and for those who do not attain them, then you need to settle for the choices.”
On his personal future, the German supervisor mentioned Liverpool have “good homeowners” however insisted he wouldn’t wish to be in a job due to his earlier success.
“I am right here to ship, I am not right here as a talisman or for murals on the partitions of homes,” he mentioned.
“I do know as nicely I am nonetheless right here due to what occurred in the previous couple of years, I do not like the actual fact I’ve to depend on that.”
