Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville has said that it's "scary" for the rest of the Premier League that Jurgen Klopp has stayed as long as he has at Liverpool.
The German coach arrived in 2015 and has since turned the Reds into one of the best club's in world football. A UEFA Champions League final defeat to Real Madrid in 2018 was followed up with victory 12 months later over Tottenham Hotspur. And Klopp ended the club's 20-year wait for a league title by lifting the Premier League in 2020.
Since then, the Reds have enjoyed success in the FIFA Club World Cup, UEFA Super Cup and this season the Carabao Cup and FA Cup, meaning Klopp has won every club trophy available to him in England. There's still another Champions League final to play for, meeting Madrid once again this weekend in Paris.
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The Merseyside club could have completed an unprecedented quadruple this season but lost the Premier League title to Man City on the final day of the season by one point. Pep Guardiola's side have been a thorn in Liverpool's side over the past few seasons and Neville believes that the two managers, Klopp and Guardiola's, longevity so far and beyond is a 'worry' for the rest of the league.
"The worry for the rest is, that I thought these two managers would be gone two or three seasons ago," Neville told his Overlap Sky Sports podcast. "I thought 'they’re going to do four years, five years, and then they’ll go, that next challenge will come – Barcelona, Real Madrid, wherever the next challenge is' – the problem is now they’ve both embedded themselves into these two clubs.
"They recognise that the league’s the best it’s ever been, the rest of the leagues in Europe aren’t in a stronger position, the clubs that they’re at are giving them everything that they want and more, and they’re now going to be here for another three years maybe, four years and that’s the scary thing."
Klopp put pen to paper on a new long-term contract last month, keeping him at the club until 2026 at the earliest.
