It’s hard to believe that Liverpool began this season as reigning Premier League champions.
Not only that, but they were arguably the most formidable champions since Arsenal won the title in 2004.
Last term, Jurgen Klopp’s side won the title by 18 points ahead of Manchester City in second as an illustration of how dominant they were.
This time around, Liverpool are eighth in the Premier League table and 22 points behind Pep Guardiola’s side at the summit, with 11 games to play.
Klopp’s troops lost a sixth-successive league game at Anfield on Sunday after going down 1-0 to relegation-threatened Fulham.
Yes, the German manager has a crisis of defensive options, but there still seems to be something a little more worrying happening on Merseyside right now.
Club icon Steven Gerrard led Rangers to their first Scottish Premiership title on Sunday and Chris Sutton, writing in The Mail, claims that Liverpool’s hierarchy could genuinely hire him to replace Klopp in the ‘near future’.
He said: “The higher-ups at Liverpool must be looking at Gerrard now and thinking he’s got to be their man in the future. Maybe the near future, if things continue to go so pear-shaped for Jurgen Klopp. “
Is this true? Well, no.
Klopp has too much credit in the bank at Liverpool and there’s no way he’d be sacked without being given a chance to turn this around next term.
We’re talking about a manager who broke their 30-year wait for the Premier League title and led them to two Champions League finals in three years – winning one, in 2019.
If he wants to stay at Anfield, he will.
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