Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has told Sky Sports that his biggest ambition at the club is simply to play the kind of football that is fondly remembered.
The German has been a big hit at Anfield since replacing Brendan Rodgers at the club last season.
In his first seven months in charge, he led them to both the League Cup final and Europa League final.
They have continued that fine form into this season and are currently looking like serious contenders for the top four.
Reds fans are excited about the club’s future under the German’s leadership but he says his main aim it just to get his side playing attractive football.
“My biggest ambition? Only to play football which we like to remember when we watch it back,” Klopp told Sky Sports.
“I think that’s the goal in life, to use the time you have together and to create moments which you can enjoy when you look back. It cannot happen that you finish 15th if you do this.”
Liverpool are currently fourth in the Premier League table with 13 points from their first six games.
Their football has attractive, to say the least, with them currently the second highest goalscorers in the division behind Manchester City.
This weekend saw them at their best as they comfortably beat Hull City at Anfield. They return to action this weekend when they take on Swansea City away from home, a game that they lost 3-1 last season.
Liverpool’s excellent 5-1 win over Hull City at Anfield on Saturday produced a bizarre yet welcome statistic.
At Anfield in the previous league campaign, it took until April. 20, 2016 for the Reds to rack up a plus seven goal difference — remarkable even by modern Liverpool’s lowered standards.
After wins over Leicester and Hull, they have reached that seven-goal mark this season by September.
Last season was complex for a variety of reasons — not least Jurgen Klopp replacing Brendan Rodgers in October — but even that was no excuse for the poor home form.
It was hard for any supporter to take but for the older generation even more so. League title wins were founded on an impregnable Anfield. In the 1970s when clubs played 42 league games, it wasn’t unusual for the Reds to go a whole season without a single home defeat.
In season 1976-77 they won 18 and drew three. In 1978-79 they won 19 and drew two. Fast forward to 2015-16 and it was utterly wretched with only eight games won.
Fans understood the club was not at its strongest but when visiting Anfield becomes a chore, that’s when a few alarm bells began to ring.
Klopp has always had much to say about the part the supporters can play in Liverpool’s resurgence. A little too much, some might venture. After the 4-1 win over Leicester, he even begged fans not to sing this name until any victory was well and truly secured.
That gives you an inkling of where Liverpool were at — when a 3-1 lead after an hour at home can’t be considered “secure”.
It’s become clear how Klopp wants his team to play and that the energy from the crowd has a role too. Liverpool have flown at both visiting teams from the first whistle, unsettling the opposition and igniting Anfield.
Goals at just the right times certainly helped in asserting that style and revving up the optimism throughout the stadium.