Manchester City being found guilty of serious financial breaches only makes the achievements of Liverpool Football Club during that era feel even more monumental.
England’s grandest institution stood almost alone against a machine that dominated English football, yet Jürgen Klopp, Anfield and those famous red shirts kept dragging themselves back into the fight, season after season.
Liverpool reached heights of ninety-seven and ninety-nine points, conquered Europe, conquered England and produced football worthy of one of the greatest sides this country has ever seen.
There is something almost poetic about looking back now at the seasons in which Manchester City were crowned champions ahead of Klopp’s Liverpool, because history has a habit of remembering more than simply whose name was engraved on the trophy.
What Jürgen Klopp built at Liverpool was never merely a collection of medals, it was an era, a rebellion and another immortal chapter in the history of England’s greatest football institution.
And with everything we know today, the legend of that Liverpool side only grows larger with time.
🚨 BREAKING: Cody Gakpo to stay at Liverpool. Manchester City had £75m + £5m bid rejected by #LFC & pursuit over - confirmed between all sides in direct communication. #MCFC now fully focused on attempting to sign Enzo Fernandez from Chelsea @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/r47xBCrALk
🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞��𝗡𝗚: Virgil van Dijk speaks out against the hydration breaks!
🗣️ “I have been watching almost every game and I don’t really like the hydration breaks. And for the people watching on television it’s also not great.”
“If it’s REALLY HOT, then obviously you need it, but you need to look at it game by game.”
“But I think I have said enough already…..”
Won us the league. Handled the Jota tragedy with immaculate humanity and connection. Just because the footy was a bit rough people were saying absolutely abhorrent things about him. Will be a legend forever and rightfully should stay on the banner on the kop
Fuck the owners for that timing. Announce it last week and give him the final game and give him a nice send off.
Instead a league winning manager for Liverpool sat on the bench alone staring into the void feeling isolated.
Absolute joke.