Jurgen Klopp's reaction to Liverpool winning the Premier League in 2020 is a real tear-jerker

Liverpool look highly unlikely to win the Premier League this season.

With Manchester City commanding a nine-point lead and dropping just two points since October, the Reds seem helpless to prevent Pep Guardiola from winning a fourth title in just five seasons.

However, even if the Citizens create the dynasty that yet another Premier League crown would assure, Liverpool can hold their heads up high as the team that prevented Guardiola from winning five in a row.

Besides, Liverpool’s historic triumph in 2019/20 not only brought the club’s 30-year wait for a title to an end, but it also saw them become one of England’s greatest ever champions with an epic total of 99 points.

And that legendary achievement will always be credited in great part to the phenomenal work of Jurgen Klopp, who has worked wonders on Merseyside since taking over in October 2015.

To think that Klopp inherited a Liverpool side barely competing for the Champions League spots and turned them into the second-greatest ever Premier League winners in just five years is truly something special.

Even if it proves to be the only league title that the German brings to Anfield, it will always be an emotional and unforgettable one with the man himself feeling the gravity of the occasion when it happened.

In fact, almost two years on, Klopp’s interview with Sky Sports in the immediate aftermath of Liverpool being confirmed as champions lives on as emphatic proof of why he’s such a club legend.

In a tear-jerking chat that had many a Kopite welling up, the then 52-year-old showed remarkable class by thanking everyone from Sir Kenny Dalglish and Steven Gerrard who battled through Liverpool’s title drought.

According to talkSPORT, Klopp emotionally remarked during his