Jurgen Klopp has hailed his Liverpool as the best he’s ever had as he prepares them for Saturday’s Champions League final against Tottenham.
The Reds missed out on the Premier League title to Manchester City by one point after finishing on 97 points, the third highest points total in English football history.
En route to the Madrid showpiece, Klopp’s manne also overturned a 3-0 semifinal first-leg deficit to beat Barcelona to return to the final they lost to Real Madrid in Kiev last May.
And the German coach believes the work his current squad has put in to get themselves to this point puts them above his former teams.
He says: “I don’t like to blame my other teams, to be honest. I love them all because they all gave their everything.
WORKING HARD: Liverpool ready for Madrid final. Photo: Peter Powell/EPA.
“This team is doing well. I’ve never been part of a final with a better team than this, that’s true.
“But in different times for different reasons my teams were good as well. I’m not so surprised because the boys are, how we call it, a mix-up - potential with attitude - in the best way I ever saw or experienced.
“That’s just brilliant, it’s exceptional and that brought us where we are.”
With both the Reds and Spurs having been out of action for three weeks now, Klopp adds: “[It’s] not negative because both teams had the same time to use or lose rhythm. Ask me three days or three weeks, I’ll always take three weeks."