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View image in fullscreenJürgen Klopp’s farewell tour descends from heavy metal to a heavy heart

Manager’s Liverpool reign is fizzling out as they once again fail to turn their supremacy into three points at West Ham

After the game, as he was asked to consider the imminent departure of Jürgen Klopp, David Moyes was in jovial mood: “I’ll be glad he’s gone.

Luis Díaz was threatening and entertaining, Trent Alexander-Arnold played a handful of fabulous passes, and Andy Robertson, despite having played all but six minutes of Liverpool’s last five league games and operating, in Klopp’s words, “on the edge”, was effervescent.



They are a team that is straining but sagging.

The heavy metal football of Klopp’s heyday has been replaced with something that is just heavy.

He said little in a brief post-match press conference but there were a few phrases that revealed a dark mood: “I tried to do the right thing”; “It will be the next generation not me any more”; “I’m sorry I don’t have better news for you, or anybody else.”

It is not just Liverpool’s results that are not right at the moment.

While it might be a bit presumptuous to describe him in these moments as melancholic there was certainly no evidence of enthusiasm; it was as if his shoulders and his form had become engaged in a battle to see which could slump further.

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A couple of hours later, as the final whistle blew on this game and, to all intents and purposes, on Liverpool’s season, the first player on either side to retreat down the tunnel was Salah.

He played only the final 12 minutes, and if for much of the match his side was evidently desperate for a player with precisely his skillset – lightning pace and an eye for goal – he did little once introduced to suggest he still possessed it, or to replace in anyone’s memory that argument with Klopp on the touchline that immediately preceded his introduction.
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