Klopp: We Will Be Judged On Trophies

By Joshua Walters

Jurgen Klopp has admitted that despite his side's impressive run this season, they will be judged on trophies  as he stressed he will never forget Liverpool's "brilliant season". 

The Reds, regardless of their dazzling performances, missed out on the Premier League title to Manchester City having recorded 97 points, a highest number of points in the Premier League era for a runner-up.

But Klopp's men have their destiny in their own hands as they have a chance to win a silverware in the Champions League final against Tottenham Hotspurs in Madrid.

With Klopp set to face Mauricio Pochettino's side, the Argentine trainer believes his colleague should not be judged on trophies.

Klopp, though agreed with Pochettino but said he knows why he will be judged on that.

"I think Poch is right but that's not important," he said, via The Guardian.

"The thing is, you – the outside world – it is your right to judge us by what we win and what we don't win.

"Look back in 20 years and nobody will talk about our brilliant season unless another team comes close to 97 points but for me, as a person, it will stay forever.

"That is probably what Poch is like as well but the outside world is like this and we have to accept that. To judge a coach by what he is winning is a silly thing because we all have different circumstances. We all have different teams, different clubs. We have to fight with or against different things."

A defeat for Liverpool will see Klopp losing three finals after taking charge in October 2015 having been beaten by Sevilla at the St. Jakob-Park in Basel, Switzerland in an Europa League final on 18 May 2016.

However, the 50-year-old trainer, who admitted he knows why he will be judged on silverware concluded that,  there are more to assess coaches on than just silverware.

"Coaches, most of us, judge each other not on trophies. And not because most of us don't win but because we know about the job," Klopp said.

"I don't say [Manchester City manager] Pep Guardiola is the best – which is what I really think – because he constantly wins the league he's in.

"It's because of the football they play and the things he's doing."