Financial advantage in football doesn’t guarantee success, but it can moderate failure. No matter the number of zeros on the end, financial disparity exists across almost all levels of football.
It is easy to moan about clubs that aren’t your own spending millions on players and blowing your own team’s plans out the water. We all do it, well Liverpool supporters do anyway – and so we should.
Without someone who can work miracles, like Klopp, consistent success is becoming increasingly unattainable for the mere mortals of the football world. Soon it will take just that, a miracle, for anyone but oil-rich or state-owned football clubs to become the best.
It was some kind of guarantee that they would still be able to sit at the top table of football.