COOL OR NOTHING KLOPP:

I let other people worry about Liverpool’s wait for Premier League title

RELAXED Jurgen Klopp claims he leaves the burden of Liverpool’s search for the league title to others.

The Reds have never won the Premier League and last finished top of the top-flight table way back in 1990.

Klopp’s success at steering them back into the Champions League last season has raised hopes among Kop fans that he could be the man to finally end that long drought.

The charismatic German ended Dortmund’s nineyear wait for a Bundesliga title six years ago and went on to land a League and Cup double the following year.

Having smashed Liverpool’s transfer record with the £37million capture of Mohamed Salah this summer, Klopp now wants to sign RB Leipzig’s Naby Keita and Southampton’s Virgil van Dijk.

Should he land those highquality targets the Reds fanbase would be once again daring to dream. Klopp, however, is refusing to indulge in the fantasy.

“I don’t think about it,” he smiled. “But a lot of people in Liverpool think about it!

“I’m not a little bit like this. I don’t take chances like this. Actually I don’t like tags like ‘special manager,’ or ‘first manager in 100 years to win the double with Dortmund.’

“I’d be fine to win the cup and then the championship in another year.

“Winning them together they say makes me really special. I don’t need this. If it happens it’s good, but it’s not my motivation.”

Klopp claims Leipzig are “lucky” not to have to sell their best players – as he was forced to do at Dortmund.

As Dortmund boss, Klopp was forced to sell World Cup winner Mario Goetze to Bayern Munich for £31.5m in 2013. Robert Lewandowski quit to join the German champions on a free 12 months later.

Since Klopp’s departure two years ago, Dortmund have lost Ilkay Gundogan to Manchester City, Mats Hummels to Bayern Munich, and Henrikh Mkhitaryan to United.

But the Liverpool boss has had a £66million bid for Keita rejected, with Leipzig’s billionaire owner Dietrich Mateschitz insistent that his club do not need the money.

Klopp said: “Mr Mateschitz? What did he say? Lucky him. Lucky man, huh? They don’t have to sell players.

“When I was at Dortmund we always had to sell players but clubs don’t have to sell players any more so obviously I’m a little bit too late.”