Holier than thou Jurgen Klopp upset Chelsea is loved more by owner

Add Jurgen Klopp to the list of managers ignoring their own situations while criticizing Chelsea for being in the same situations.

This will be prefaced by saying that Jurgen Klopp is an amazing manager. He is arguably the best in the world as he has never come into a club full of established superstars or fresh off a series of titles, yet he still turns them into juggernauts. It may not happen right away, but pound for pound, Klopp may yield more for a midtable/bottom of the top six club than anyone else.

With that out of the way, Klopp is also one of the most self unaware managers in the world. He is a sore loser, which is not necessarily a bad trait for someone at that level of the game, but he is a sore loser in the sense that he blames anything and everything for his team’s struggles even though the other team likely faced the exact same issue. Too windy? Check. The pitch was too dry? Check. The broadcasters cut the game early? Somehow a check.

His latest go to has been to explain that his poor (literally) Liverpool simply cannot afford to compete in this market like Chelsea. The Covid crisis has hit his club too hard and they are not bankrolled by “an oligarch or nation” like Chelsea or presumably Manchester City. They are only bankrolled by a billionaire which clearly is not the same. What Klopp is really getting as is that he is upset that Chelsea’s owner simply loves Chelsea more than Liverpool’s owner loves Liverpool.

Who is Liverpool’s owner anyways? Most people know Fenway Sports Group, who are worth $6.6 billion. Sure, that has to be split with the Boston Red Sox, but there is plenty to go around. In their defense, Roman Abramovich does have more ($12.4 billion) but he’s also got several other companies that vie for his attention besides Chelsea.

But let’s get down to what Klopp is really talking about: transfers. Klopp is upset that the Blues have been spending this summer and taking his targets when the majority of other clubs cannot afford to throw money around like that. Well, let’s be honest. Those clubs can, it is just that their owners are squeezing the purse strings while Abramovich is going on with business as usual.

Don’t forget the important part either: Chelsea has basically only spent money they already had from player sales. Eden Hazard and Alvaro Morata funded the vast majority of this summer’s transfers. Plus, the transfer ban allowed (forced) the Blues to sit on that pile of cash. Where was the energy from Klopp when the Blues were banned? It surely wasn’t being used to draw the comparison to Philippe Coutinho’s sale and the transfer spree that came off of that.

Perhaps the most egregious comment is Klopp saying Liverpool is a different type of club. Did he forget when Liverpool broke the then transfer fee records for Allison and Virgil van Dijk? What about £70 million for Naby Keita to barely find a place for him over two seasons? What about six of Liverpool’s top 10 most expensive transfers of all time coming under Klopp? Crickets?

Again, Klopp isn’t a bad coach, he just gets upset when things don’t go his way when others have to face the same conditions and come out better. He surely knows Liverpool is no different than Chelsea in how they spend money, he just doesn’t want to acknowledge that the Blues had a big pile to sit on and an owner willing to back the club in a summer when everyone else is frozen.

Of course, Fenway Sports Group could have done the same for Liverpool. Or the Glazer’s with Manchester United (because Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s complaints are never far behind either). It is just that Roman Abramovich loves his club more.