Klopp: “Qualifying for the CL was Always for Financial Reasons”

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Blood, guts, and the balance at the botto of the excel spreadsheet. Liverpool FC is somehow, someway, still in the fight for fourth place. They can improve their position with a win at home, where they have inconceivably lost four straight (and winless in six), against fifth-placed Chelsea tomorrow. The financial implications of the modern game has never been clearer than during this period, with clubs’ revenues getting hit badly by the coronavirus pandemic. Jürgen Klopp however, made it clear that he isn’t being pressured by the owners to make the top four at all costs:

We all understand this situation - that’s it pretty much. It’s not that the owners called me and said “if you don’t qualify for the Champions Lea...