Roy Keane was angry with Liverpool boss for same thing Chelsea manager has just admitted
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Roy Keane once criticised Jurgen Klopp for conceding the Premier League title, just as Enzo Maresca appears to have done this season.
Despite being just over a month into the campaign, the Chelsea head coach looks to have abandoned hope of his team adding the league crown to the Club World Cup trophy they secured in the summer.
Liverpool have already established a five-point advantage at the summit following five victories from five matches, while the Stamford Bridge club sit in sixth place, seven points adrift after Saturday's 2-1 reverse at Manchester United.
Although both clubs still have 33 fixtures remaining, Maresca believes the Reds possess too much quality to be caught following their impressive summer transfer dealings.
The Italian said: "If they continue in this way, I think it is impossible to catch them, not just for us, but for all the clubs.
They have been doing a fantastic job since last year, and the players they have decided to buy shows the intention of the club to go again for the Premier League and the Champions League, and that is quite clear."
Klopp made similar remarks in February 2021, when the German acknowledged that Manchester City, who held a 13-point lead over Liverpool at the time, had moved too far ahead to be reeled in.
Speaking following a 3-1 loss at Leicester, Klopp confessed: "I don't think we can close the gap.
We are not worrying about the title, we are not silly."
That didn't sit well with Keane, who slated the Reds for making what he saw as excuses following a string of injuries and branded them "bad champions."
"They are making a lot of excuses.
There's a way to be beaten but I don't see that [in them]."
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While Chelsea aren't defending champions, Maresca's admission so early in the campaign is unlikely to have impressed Keane.