What am expecting from ‘Incredible’ Chelsea next season – Klopp finally reveals
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has conceded that facing Chelsea this season has been difficult, and he expects even harder next season.
For the previous five years, Liverpool and Manchester City have been the top two teams in the Premier League, but Klopp believes that will not be the case next season.
Klopp said he expected the gap to narrow in his pre-Wolves press conference when asked if he could see any other team contesting next season.
“We play Chelsea and I see that,” the Liverpool boss explained. “The [FA Cup] final, where was the advantage?
“I was over the moon about our first half-hour against Chelsea. It was the best half-hour we played against them because they’re so incredibly difficult.
“So we all learn and we will see how the squads will look next year and all these kind of things.
“But you do know Erik ten Hag is arriving at United, and they don’t wait now five years or whatever. They will go big.
“You have Tottenham. Obviously, Antonio Conte is very, very ambitious.
“They already have a good team. To play two competitions they maybe need a few more players – they will bring them in then that’s it.
“It’s not about that. Nobody has to worry that the gap will stay forever.
“It was the hardest work to get here, so if we put the foot a little bit off the gas the 16 points it is at the moment is immediately three points, and three points are nothing.
“It’s all about us, to make sure that we can be as good as possible, and about the rest, we don’t have a real influence on that.
“Again, we have a talented group and we will have a talented group next year.
“We have to make a proper machine of it again. Then we go and then we will see.”