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A Dutch columnist has ripped into Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool in the wake of the Reds’ midweek Champions League exit. It’s quite a slump from this time last year when there were genuine hopes of an unprecedented quadruple, the first part of which had been secured by winning the Carabao Cup. Klopp and several of his players have now come in for stinging criticism from one journalist in an unforgiving rant. Henk Spaan wrote in his column for b042f600/: “Is Liverpool a top club? Can you call a team a top club with someone like Milner at the centre of midfield?

Liverpool can only be called a top club if you look at the budget.



If he were sitting idly by as his team’s Champions League campaign fizzled out, would Spaan be berating him for that too?