Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has insisted that the current group of players will need to create their own history rather than getting burdened by the comparisons of the past.
The Reds go into the international break with 26 points in 11 league games as the leaders in Premier League and there has been comparisons with sides of the past. It has been nearly 26 seasons ago that Reds have managed a league title.
“It’s a really good moment and I know that everybody compares with the past, especially at Liverpool,” he told the club’s official website. “Three years ago, 10, five, 25 years ago — but this team is new, we are new.
“Our story started a few months ago so you cannot compare us with anyone else. You cannot carry the history on our backs, we should feel free for creating something in the near future.
“If everybody wants to say ‘We wait now for 20-something years for silverware’ or whatever, we can say ‘OK, we [have] tried, actually, only since a year.’ So that gives us the freedom to look in the future quite optimistically.”
