When Jürgen Klopp told the Liverpool squad that he would be leaving at the end of the season, he jokingly blamed them. He said that they had got ‘too good’, meaning he could walk away safe in the knowledge that the team is well set up for the future.
Many a true word spoken in jest, as they say. Clearly, there was a real will from Klopp to leave Liverpool in rude health — look no further than the fact he stuck it out last season, when he could have walked away in the manner he left Borussia Dortmund.
Yet even he cannot have expected to sign off with such an emphatic improvement in the club’s fortunes. There is still a legitimate possibility that Klopp could leave on the back of a quadruple, although Liverpool will not be allowing itself to really entertain that scenario just yet.
