Klopp Warns Liverpool Over Champions League Success
Jurgen Klopp has cautioned his side not to be carried away by their Champions League glory as he wants them to remain focus going into the 2019/20 season.
Liverpool defeated their domestic rivals Tottenham Hotspurs 2-0 to clinch the Champions League title at the Wanda Metropolitano on June 1.
And Klopp, who is willing to win a Premier League trophy with Liverpool has urged his squad to put behind their Champions League success and concentrate on the new season.
"The players aren't the problem. How would they change in four or five weeks?" Klopp told a news conference.
"The new situation is that it was a big achievement for the club, a big achievement for each individual. They had a completely different summer.
"Everybody is talking to you about it. If you win something then everybody feels the need to tell you first of all congratulations, then where they watched, how they felt, how their family felt, how their friends felt, how their dog felt.
"It's all nice but of course it keeps you in that moment. I want to be completely focused on the new season from a specific point. That's the one thing.
"When we said we have to get rid of the backpack of the history of the club so we can make a step in the right direction, we have to make sure our own history – even though it's a very good one – doesn't keep us in that moment.
"That's very important. We will do that, but we have to learn it. Nobody gives you a book that you can read about how to deal with a Champions League win."
