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UNDER-FIRE Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has spoken out on his future at Anfield as his team’s horror slump hit a new low with a 3-0 loss to Wolves.The Reds were easily beaten at Molineux on Saturday.
Jurgen Klopp has given spoken out on his future at LiverpoolCredit: Alamy
An own-goal by Joel Matip handed the home side an early lead.
January transfer Craig Dawson then doubled Wolves lead, powering a shot home on his debut.
And Ruben Neves then wrapped the game up in the second half, finishing well past Alisson to help move Wolves a few points away from the relegation zone.
Liverpool are in a rough patch, with Klopp’s men are sat 10th in the Premier League after 20 games played, collecting just 29 points.
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The Reds are yet to win a league game in 2023, losing three and drawing one.
The last win came against Leicester on December 28.
But despite Liverpool’s woes, Klopp is confident he can turn the Reds’ fortunes around.
When asked after the defeat if he has confidence in his own ability to improve Liverpool’s situation, Klopp replied: “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely.”
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Asked on HOW he turns Liverpool’s season around, Klopp said: “Not in press conferences. That doesn’t help, obviously.
“You know my job, I know my job, my job is not to explain here how I can build up my team.
“I will be judged by that from you and that’s fine.
“Let me say it like this, for today, it was not good enough, what I did.”
The German has also said that the loss to Wolves was one of the worst performances he has seen “for a while”.
Klopp said: “We had that subject [starting games slowly] through the first part of the season and now not so much anymore, but today it was, if you want, the pinnacle of our problems because in a game like this it is absolutely not allowed.
“You can criticise, you can judge us, you can say whatever want and you are probably right – I have nothing to say against that because these 12 minutes are not allowed.
“Coming here with all the things we did in the last few days – and during the whole season so far – with what we want, then you arrive here and this is the outcome, that’s really hard to take, I have to say.
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“We had other games with conceding early goals, we had that since the last season so it was now not that much anymore, but we didn’t win games so then it’s pretty likely when you lose games that you concede the first one.
“Again, these 12 minutes we were the worst for a while.” More

WOLVES have hit back at Jurgen Klopp after he dismissed their third goal against Liverpool.Ruben Neves sealed a magnificent 3-0 victory for Wolves’ against the Reds.
Ruben Neves netted Wolves’ third goal against LiverpoolCredit: PA
But Jurgen Klopp dismissed the goal saying he ‘did not count it’Credit: Rex
The Portuguese midfielder finished off a swift counter-attacking move by firing past Alisson to put his side three goals ahead.
The move was Wolves’ first attack after a long period of pressure from Liverpool as they tried to claw themselves back into the game after Joel Matip’s own-goal and Craig Dawson’s debut effort.
These circumstances of the goal led to Liverpool boss Klopp to dismiss it as counting in his opinion.
He said: “The third goal I don’t count because it was the first time they passed the halfway line in the second half.
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“The other two goals, going into a game with all the things we said during the week and before the game, then this is the start, is horrible.”
The comments then inspired Wolves’ social media admins to sarcastically troll the German manager.
The club posted an updated full time result on Twitter picture showing the final score to be 2-0, with a frustrated Neves pictured.
The post received a lot of praise from the club’s fans as it was ‘liked’ over 43,000 times.
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One fan commented: “I saw what you did there, lol 👀.”
A second tweeted: “The whole admin team needs a raise…”
A third wrote: “Jeff Shi, who does our social media please, please give them a big fat raise!
“Thank you in advance on behalf of all Wolves fans.”
A fourth said: “Admin wins again.”
A fifth added: “😂😂😂 just makes the win even better 🐺🖤💛 well done.” More

LIVERPOOL manager Jurgen Klopp has run out of ideas after the loss to Wolves.That is according to Paul Merson, who issued a brutal assessment of the Reds’ performance following their 3-0 loss to Julen Lopetegui’s side at Molineux.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp suffered a humiliating loss to WolvesCredit: Rex
Paul Merson suggested Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is running out of ideasCredit: Getty
The Midlanders took the lead after just five minutes thanks to an own goal from Joel Matip.
Craig Dawson doubled Wolves’ lead just seven minutes later and Ruben Neves sealed the hosts’ triumph on 71 minutes.
That makes it only one win out of the last seven matches across all competitions for Liverpool, who also count four losses.
Merson insists Klopp’s current squad is “a million miles off” last season’s team that almost won an unprecedented quadruple.
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The Arsenal legend also believes the German tactician may have to make an important decision about his future as he is struggling to turn things around.
Merson told Sky Sports: “First time I’ve seen Klopp just sitting there…
“I don’t like the word ‘lost’, he’s not lost but I don’t think he knows what else to do now.
“I think he’s watching this time and it is a million miles off where they were last year, a million miles.
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“I think he’ll wait until the Champions League, I think he’ll wait for the Real Madrid game.
“If he gets a couple of players fit such as [Virgil] Van Dijk then it’s a different game if they go and beat Real Madrid over two legs.
“Watching this I don’t see them doing that. Without Van Dijk, [Joel] Matip and [Joe] Gomez don’t look the same players without him.
“The full-backs have lost their way and the midfield’s getting overrun.
“You’re looking at players who were consistently 8 or 9/10 last year who are now consistently 4 or 5/10 now.” More

JURGEN KLOPP must have felt such a fool sporting the armband denoting football’s green weekend as his team was left utterly humiliated.The climate change initiative spread across the English game is all about the sustainability of the planet with every player and boss wearing backing it.
Joel Matip’s early own goal put Wolves aheadCredit: Getty
Craig Dawson’s first Wolves goal made it 2-0Credit: Getty
Ruben Neves scored the thirdCredit: Getty
It was another disappointing afternoon for LiverpoolCredit: Alamy
Yet sustainability is exactly what his team can no longer count on.
And Klopp’s world looks lie it is coming the end.
Liverpool are running on empty and delivered the shocking, shambolic performance that confirmed there is more than one club now in crisis on Merseyside.
Joel Matip scored a horror own goal, Craig Dawson slammed in a second for Wolves in a nightmare opening eleven minutes that said everything about how far and how fast Klopp’s men have fallen.
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Remember, they were two games away from completing an historic quadruple last season – the team Klopp proudly called his “mentality monsters.”
Now so many of the same players – and especially those supposed to be guarding the back door – are not even going through the motions.
The German declared after last month’s 3 – 0 Prem defeat at Brighton that it was the lowest point of a managerial career that now stretches 1,002 games.
Yet this was worse, so bad that he stood transfixed on the Molineux touchline unable to comprehend the utter inadequacy of his team’s defending.
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The displays of Matip, of Joe Gomez, Andy Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold, as well as those in front of them supposed to be closing down opponents were a betrayal of all that Klopp stands for tactically.
Geggenpressing ? This was simply depressing for the German.
Liverpool have now conceded more Prem goals – 28 in 20 games – than they did throughout the whole of last season.
True enough £75M defensive kingpin Virgil van Dijk is missing with hamstring problems and Ibrahima Konate has joined him having suffered the same injury.
Yet Matip and Gomez have been there all the way through the good times.
Now the going has become tough, but they are not getting going.
The Anfield edifice is crumbling before our very eyes and Klopp’s opposite number Julen Lopetegui will not have believed what he was seeing.
Only five minutes in Robertson slacked up instead of speeding up to close down Nelson Semedo who drilled the ball forward for Hwang Hee-chan.
Matip was slow to react to the mistake able only to find himself in the wrong place at the wrong time as Hee-chan swung from a narrow angle, the ball skidding into the net off the beleaguered defender.
Robertson again didn’t know whether to stick or twist on his left flank as Matheus Da Cunha delivered for Max Kilman to shoot.
Gomez’s header was weak, hitting Stefan Bajcetic on the penalty spot and Dawson, making his debut following a £3.3M entrance from West Ham blasted a right footer high into the net.
To think that Wolves had only scored six Prem goals at home this season.
Suddenly, before the Bovril had gone cold, they had the double that sent Liverpool into an even deeper downward spiral – that’s only one point from their last four games.
Last season’s domestic cup double and that incredible surge towards greatness is only a memory now.
While Klopp’s players have completely forgotten how to play.
Indeed they could easily have been three down by the 26 minute as Matip, who had seemed in a daze from the start, was ambushed 30 yards out by Matheus Nunes, Alisson then doing a brilliant one on one job.
Few of the goalkeeper’s team mates showed such defiance with Cody Gakpo a near by – stander, Darwin Nunez flattering to deceive as he does, Mo Salah all but isolated.
Here seemed a decent shout for a penalty when Naby Keita’s short deflected onto Kilman’s arm but neither referee Paul Tierney nor VAR Lee Mason were interested.
The coup de grace for a Liverpool team that has lost all identity as triple Champions League finalists with one triump, 2020 Prem champs and last year’s trophy double came in the 72nd minute.
Gomez, as Matip had been mid-way through the first half was caught in possession, sub Joao Moutinho robbing him.
The midfielder sent over a cross-field pass to fellow sub Adama Traore, Robertson stranded.
The winger clipped back across to Ruben Neves who had run thirty yards forward to meet the pass.
He sprinted past Thiago like he wasn’t there and the Spanish star certainly didn’t even see him as the Wolves skipper steadied himself to leave poor Alisson for dead.
That goal summed up everything that has gone wrong within Anfield while it was met by the thunderous reception of Old Gold fans who know are beginning to believe they are onto a good thing with new boss Lupetegui.
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Bruno Lage’s successor now has ten points from his six Prem games in charge with Wolves not only out of the drop zone but now looking up, not down.
The opposite is the case for Klopp and a team that now have a new mentality – as losers. More

TURKISH giants Galatasaray are the frontrunners to sign Liverpool defender Nat Phillips, according to reports.Phillips has struggled for chances under Jurgen Klopp this season and has made just two starts.
Nat Phillips is wanted by GalatasarayCredit: Getty
Those were against Crystal Palace in August when the Reds were short of centre-backs and the Carabao Cup tie with Derby.
As a result, he could leave Anfield before Tuesday’s transfer deadline.
And The Athletic claim that Galatasaray, who are seven points clear at the top of the Turkish Super Lig table, are interested.
The Istanbul giants are said to be in pole position with talks currently ongoing.
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Three options are being considered with a loan, a loan with an option to buy and a permanent deal all under discussion.
Liverpool value Phillips at £10m.
The defender is also attracting interest from Germany, but he’s said to be open to signing for Galatasaray.
Phillips has made just a handful of appearance for the first-team in the last couple of years.
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His lack of game-time saw him loaned out to Bournemouth for the second half of last season.
Phillips’ Anfield contract expires in the summer of 2025. More