Coaches judge each other not on trophies- Jurgen Klopp ahead of UCL Final

The German tactician will feature in the fourth cup final during his time with the Reds.

Liverpool will face Tottenham Hotspur in the UEFA Champions League final on Saturday and the Reds boss, Jurgen Klopp accepts that he would be judged on the trophies despite the brilliant season of 2018-19. The Merseyside red have a chance to win their first silverware under the German coach.

Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino defended Klopp, insisting that Jurgen should not be judged and measures for losing two Champions League deciders in the past. Although the Liverpool manager agreed with Pochettino that he is already been judged on his lack of trophies.

"I think Poch is right but that's not important," he said, via The Guardian.

"The thing is, you – the outside world – it is your right to judge us by what we win and what we don't win."

"Look back in 20 years and nobody will talk about our brilliant season unless another team comes close to 97 points but for me, as a person, it will stay forever."

"That is probably what Poch is like as well but the outside world is like this and we have to accept that. To judge a coach by what he is winning is a silly thing because we all have different circumstances. We all have different teams, different clubs. We have to fight with or against different things."

⬇️ PLEASE LEARN ⬇️Klopp: "I lost the last six finals I was in. They were hardly the best days of my life, but they didn't make me a broken person or whatever. For me, life is about trying again and again; if only the winners were allowed to survive then we'd all have to go." pic.twitter.com/rBOjcy2WLb

— Fields Of Anfield Road (@FOARsite) June 1, 2019

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Out of the six finals that Klopp has lost, three of them have come for Liverpool. Since October 2015, he lost the League Cup and the Europa League final in 2015-16 and the UEFA Champions League final in 2017-18.

But there is much for the coaches, than just winning the trophies.

"Coaches, most of us, judge each other not on trophies. And not because most of us don't win but because we know about the job," Klopp said.

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"I don't say Pep Guardiola is the best – which is what I really think – because he constantly wins the league he's in."

"It's because of the football they play and the things he's doing," Klopp said.