Jürgen Klopp admits past success is why he survives at Liverpool

Jürgen Klopp has claimed his past glories with Liverpool are the main reason he is not under pressure for the underachievement of this season. Klopp made the admission after the sackings on Sunday of Graham Potter and Brendan Rodgers by Chelsea and Leicester respectively took the total of Premier League managers dismissed this season to 12.

The Liverpool manager believes he would have been in a similar predicament to Potter had this been his first season at Anfield and that only credit in the bank for winning the Premier League and Champions League, among other trophies, will give him time to rebuild.

Liverpool are out of the Champions League and struggling to qualify for the competition next season after three successive defeats since their 7-0 destruction of Manchester United.

When asked to reflect on the sackings of Rodgers and Potter, the Premier League’s longest-serving manager said: “The elephant in the room is probably from your point of view why I am still sitting here in this crazy world? Last man standing.

“I cannot really explain that,. I am aware of the fact I am sitting here because of the past, not because of what we did this season. If it was my first season it would be slightly different. Yes, we have smart owners who know about the situation, but you had better ask them why that is the case.

“I am not afraid, but I don’t think that Graham was afraid. There is no need for being afraid. I am here to deliver. I am not here as a talisman or for murals on the walls of a house. I am here to deliver. I know as well I am still here for what happened in the last few years. I don’t like the fact and pretty much I have to rely on that. Is it right or not? We will see that in the future, but I am fully in, there is