Jürgen Klopp

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has admitted that it is going to be difficult for his side to finish in the Premier League's top four this season if they ...

It is difficult for City to defend that then we have good spells with the ball." I wouldn't say the first-half was outstanding but a game we have seen here before against City. "You can't win a football game. I am a big believer that if you are good, you should win football games," he told talkSPORT. So, nothing to do with top-four hopes. "Ooft.

Liverpool hopes of Champions League qualification were dealt another blow when they suffered a dreary defeat at Manchester City on Saturday.

I've never been to a football game apart from in PE and they would make me play football myself and I was terrible at it." The result means [Jurgen Klopp’s](https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/jurgen-klopp) side will most likely have to win eight of their remaining 11 Premier League games to have any hope of a top-four finish. But that didn't stop him getting involved in the festivities. [Jurgen Klopp names the four Liverpool players who were just 'okay' in Man City defeat](https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/jurgen-klopp-names-four-liverpool-26612080) [How Klopp's dream Liverpool midfield for 2023/24 could look after three major signings](https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/liverpool-signings-midfield-jurgen-klopp-26584872) [Liverpool player ratings as Virgil van Dijk and five others bad against Man City](https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-player-ratings-city-breaking-26610175) [Rate the Liverpool players after the 4-1 defeat by Manchester City](https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rate-liverpool-players-after-4-26611111) [Man City release statement after 'inappropriate' chants aimed at Liverpool fans](https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/man-city-release-statement-after-26612068) He wasn't very happy at all. His anger, though, did not. Jurgen Klopp wasn't very happy on Saturday. [Back in 2018,](https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/sort-arsenal-fan-aiming-liverpool-14631124) she said: "I'm not really a big football fan, my little brother and my dad watch football, they support Arsenal. [Why Liverpool boss said 'nothing' to his players after Man City defeat](https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/jurgen-klopp-said-nothing-liverpool-26610281) [Reds](https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fc) to crumble to a 4-1 loss against the champions. [Liverpool hit new low as former Man City boss mocks behind scenes after dismal defeat](https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/match-reports/liverpool-hit-new-low-former-26610231) [FSG sent £100m signal they cannot ignore as four new problems emerge at Liverpool](https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/fsg-signal-ignore-problems-liverpool-26610304)

It seems a stretch to suggest more than a third of the team were in reasonable form on Saturday, as Liverpool lost 4-1 at the Etihad.

of completely changing the momentum at 3-1 down. That was not the case again.” “We are in a situation all together, I don’t want to take them out of the situation, but I don’t think they were the problem now today. “I don’t really know 100 percent if the team started like this or the players started like that or whatever,” Klopp said of the goal. The manager was criticised for his lack of urgency in changing the game from the bench, with 70 minutes on the clock and a scoreline of 3-1 before his quadruple substitution. It seems a stretch to suggest more than a third of the team were in reasonable form on Saturday, as Liverpool lost 4-1 at the Etihad.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was not happy after Man City's 4-1 win and only singled out four of his players for their “OK” performances at the Etihad.

“We were lucky they weren’t in the most greedy mood. They scored a fourth one but then they were happy. “After that, we were just open, like, wow. These kinds of things absolutely cannot happen, but they happened. “We concede the first goal -- an open ball in midfield where we don’t even have a challenge -- then outside we are too deep and the counter-attack happens. “The key areas are clear: if you don’t control the double [No] 6, you have a real problem if you don’t control the double [No] 10.

The manager thinks the squad needs to reflect on why they let the game slip away from them.

If you want to get something from here, then you have to play 11 players, 14, 15 players have to be on the top of their game and that was not the case again. “The first half was OK, not just because of the result but because of the performance as well. From there, of course City was doing really well.”

There were no words of criticism from the manager in the dressing room, with his input saved for an inquest at the AXA Training Centre on Sunday.

[Chelsea](https://www.thisisanfield.com/liverpool-fc/chelsea) and [Arsenal](https://www.thisisanfield.com/liverpool-fc/arsenal) in just nine days. [Premier League](https://www.thisisanfield.com/liverpool-fc/premier-league).” He added: “Being good while you’re feeling good is OK, but not being good when you don’t feel 100 percent is obviously not possible in the [Man City](https://www.thisisanfield.com/liverpool-fc/man-city) struck three times in the second half. “We have to do that tomorrow, I told the boys now there’s nothing to say from my side tonight,” he told reporters after the game. [Jurgen Klopp](https://www.thisisanfield.com/liverpool-fc/jurgen-klopp/) has insisted he “knows what he has to do” in urging Liverpool to respond to their 4-1 defeat at [Man City](https://www.thisisanfield.com/liverpool-fc/man-city), with a meeting planned Sunday.

Welcome to the Liverpool.com daily Media Digest. From transfers to tweets, it can be hard to keep up with everything going on in the Anfield sphere.

Having missed out on the Frenchman, [Liverpool](https://www.liverpool.com/liverpool-fc-news/features/liverpool-gerrard-kane-premier-league-26577091) opted not to target any other midfielders, which looks to have been a big mistake given their problems this season. “The two midfielders in Hendo (Jordan Henderson) and Fab (Fabinho) worked a lot. Cody (Gakpo), especially in possession, and Ali (Alisson Becker) of course. If you want to get something from here, you have to play 11 players. [Aurélien Tchouaméni](https://www.liverpool.com/liverpool-fc-news/features/liverpool-transfer-tchouameni-jurgen-klopp-26522318) from Monaco last year, only for Real Madrid to win the race. 14 or 15 players have to be on top of their game. [Sign up to the Liverpool.com newsletter here — it only takes a few seconds!](https://www.liverpool.com/newsletter-preference-centre/) Credible, incredible and anything in between: we round it all up in one place here, taking a sideways look at the day’s media goings-on from around the world. [Liverpool](https://www.liverpool.com/liverpool-fc-news/transfer-news/liverpool-transfer-jurgen-klopp-summer-26610810) has been linked with the same midfielder who turned down a move to Anfield last summer. [Klopp](https://www.liverpool.com/liverpool-fc-news/features/jurgen-klopp-mohamed-salah-liverpool-26610827) said (via [the ECHO](https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/jurgen-klopp-names-four-liverpool-26612080)). [Liverpool](https://www.liverpool.com/liverpool-fc-news/features/liverpool-jurgen-klopp-ai-chatgpt-26610640) boss was understandably downbeat after his side’s [4-1 humbling at the Etihad](https://www.liverpool.com/liverpool-fc-news/features/liverpool-player-ratings-mohamed-salah-26610835), which further damaged their hopes of finishing in the top four of the Premier League this season. [FSG and Liverpool can benefit again from Chelsea issue as Todd Boehly faces new $600m problem](https://www.liverpool.com/liverpool-fc-news/features/liverpool-fsg-chelsea-todd-boehly-26543172)

Signed by Brendan Rodgers during the summer of 2015, Ings arrived at Anfield on the back of a successful four year spell with Burnley. The forward was handed a ...

"When I went there [to Liverpool], the squad was very big at the time: there were a lot of strikers. Despite still being a Premier League player, Ings has conceded his time with the Reds could well have gone differently had he not been as unfortunate. In terms of 'what if', you just don't know. You just don't know. Signed by Brendan Rodgers during the summer of 2015, Ings arrived at Anfield on the back of a successful four year spell with Burnley. Making his full return to action in October 2016, Ings sustained another long-term injury which would keep him out for nine months.

Liverpool will allow Calvin Ramsay to secure a loan exit from Anfield this summer, according to today's report from The Sun. The 19-year-old has remained in ...

Latibeaudiere is out of contract in the summer, reinforcing the importance of either getting him tied down to a new deal or finding a replacement. It's a gamble taking a risk on a 19-year-old but with the teenager already impressing at a senior level in the Scottish Premiership previously and Kakay available as a more experienced option, this could turn out to be an excellent loan deal for all parties. Aaron Drewe could be a potential option but he's unlikely to start every week (if he stays beyond the end of this summer) and if that's the case, he should be given the opportunity to go out on loan, develop there and come back to the English capital as a much better player. [doesn't expire until the summer of 2024](https://www.qpr.co.uk/news/club-news/osman-kakay-signs-new-four-year-contract) - but Gareth Ainsworth's side could potentially cash in on him this summer to avoid losing him for free next year - something that ought to be considered by QPR's board when deciding which positions need to be addressed. [Joel Latibeadiere is yet to put pen to paper on fresh terms](https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/swansea-city-dealt-double-contract-25822605) and that could leave Russell Martin's men with a severe shortage of options on the right-hand side. [a knee injury that looks set to keep him out for the remainder of the campaign](http://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/21913488/liverpool-klopp-calvin-ramsay-loan-next-season-transfer/) and that won't work in his favour as he potentially looks to force his way into the Reds' first team for next term.

Former Liverpool striker Danny Ings has revealed all about his nightmare spell at Anfield during an interview with Sky Sports. Now a West Ham United player, ...

"When I went there [to Liverpool], the squad was very big at the time: there were a lot of strikers. He later left after falling out of favour and has now opened up about the torrid time. [Southampton](https://www.sportbible.com/southampton), [Aston Villa](https://www.sportbible.com/aston-villa) and now West Ham. In terms of 'what if', you just don't know. You just don't know. [West Ham United](https://www.sportbible.com/west-ham-united) player, [Ings](https://www.sportbible.com/danny-ings) was signed by [Brendan Rodgers](https://www.sportbible.com/brendan-rodgers) in 2015 and moved to Merseyside after an impressive spell at [Burnley](https://www.sportbible.com/burnley).

MICAH RICHARDS: What is going on with Liverpool? You will have to go a long way to find someone who has more respect for Jurgen Klopp than me, ...

I remember Khaldoon Al-Mubarak coming in to see us at Manchester City when we had lost games but it was always with a message of staying positive. It’s disappointed me because I thought it was absolutely unbelievable when they managed to sign a Brazilian of his class. He is an excellent coach and I backed him during his time at Chelsea, but it feels like he needed one more move elsewhere before he took a job of that stature. Brendan Rodgers gave Leicester City one of the greatest days in their history in 2021 when he won the FA Cup. The levels they had shown were off the scale, which makes what is happening now so baffling. ](/sport/football/article-11927897/Jurgen-Klopp-SAVAGES-Liverpool-says-FOUR-players-OK-Man-City-loss.html)

Liverpool are next up against Chelsea in the Premier League with Jurgen Klopp facing some selection posers.

Fabio Carvalho, who wasn't in the squad at City, is a more unlikely selection. If not, the other decision is whether to revert to a regular three up front with Darwin Nunez expected to be fully fit after his cut ankle. Centre-back, too, could see changes, with neither Ibrahima Konate nor Virgil van Dijk covering themselves in glory at the Etihad. Both Joe Gomez and James Milner are alternatives at right-back. Andy Robertson was well below his best with Kostas Tsimikas having replaced him before full-time at left-back, while Trent Alexander-Arnold had a tough afternoon. Liverpool will now look to avoid a fourth successive loss when they travel to similarly-struggling Chelsea on Tuesday.