‘I don’t want a statue!’: Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp stays humble as a Premier League champion.

Jurgen Klopp insists he does not want a statue in his honour as the LIverpool manager stayed humble in his first press conference as a Premier League champion. 

Manchester City‘s loss at Chelsea on Thursday night means Liverpool have an unassailable lead at the top of the Premier League table, and have clinched their first top-flight title in 30 years. 

It is Klopp’s fourth trophy at the club since arriving in 2015, and after a night of celebrations the manager spoke at Anfield on Friday about what this latest triumph means for the club – and about a call to his family just before the title was confirmed. 

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp spoke about the weight of history on Friday afternoon

‘I called my family 10 seconds before the final whistle,’ Klopp revealed in a press conference. ‘I told them I loved them and they said they loved me. That was a really nice moment.

‘I was never sure it would happen, but I never doubted it. It’s incredible. We were good four years ago, really good three years ago, unbelievable last season, and this season is absolutely exceptional – second to none.

‘I still want to live for 30 or 40 years, I’m not interested in a statue. You don’t have to compare me with these iconic figures.

‘The last 13 months were pretty special for us. It is an incredible time in my life, to be honest. I couldn’t be more thankful to be part of it. And we will not stop.

‘I cannot promise that we’ll win something, but I can promise that we will try our hardest to improve.’ 

The Liverpool manager also spke about the weight of history at Anfield, and thanked the supporters for showing patience in his early years at the club. 

‘The history is no burden anymore. The history is now our wonderful background for the basis of what we are doing,’ Klopp told Sky Sports News.

‘When I came in, we had to say ‘don’t compare us anymore with anybody’, with this wonderful, fantastic people who played for this club and won everything for this club in the past. We cannot – the world’s changed. 

‘We need to get the opportunity from you actually, our supporters, to find our own way. This is only possible because nobody lost patience with us in any moment. Football managers is a nice job but a difficult one as well because we cannot really ask for time. 

‘We have to deliver immediately, people have to see the steps we make and people saw them because they wanted to see them. So the story was possible.’