Klopp tells Nev to shut up about Kop potential and that ‘it’s easy just to talk in an office’

Poch: We played at Watford like it was a trip to the park. Now if we don’t have the desire & focus against Liverpool at Wembley...

JURGEN KLOPP has told TV pundit Gary Neville: ‘You don’t know what you’re talking about’.

The ex-Manchester United and England defender had advised Klopp to forget about winning the Champions League and instead concentrate on an all-out

MAURICIO POCHETTINO will admit, “Houston, we have a problem”, if his Tottenham space cadets repeat their Watford crash landing against Liverpool’s stars today.

The Spurs boss has claimed his team played like a testimonial outfit in front of pop superstar Elton John in their last game – and showed a lack of respect to their opponents.

Fifth-placed Spurs, who signed no new players in the summer, welcome the league leaders who have invested £170million in their title challenge.

And the Argentine said: “If Saturday we play in the same way (as in the Watford match), rather than take off players, I will be on the phone to say, ‘Houston, we have a problem!’”

“Come on. If, against Liverpool at Wembley, you do not have the desire and the focus to play... It is not about playing well, it is about attitude and to say, ‘Hey, come on, we are aggressive and we try to win’.

“If you watch the Watford game again, you see we played so slow, so sloppy, from the beginning. It was like we thought, ‘OK, it is a nice afternoon in Watford, Elton John is in the stands’. It was like going to Hyde Park with my child.

“It does not mean we are going to kill someone. It is only to be responsible. To win games, we need to be focused for 95 minutes.

“If not, you always pay in football. if you are disrespectful, you pay. If you do not pay today, you pay tomorrow. That is what is so important in football.

“When the opponent is below you, sometimes people can get confused. To respect the opponent is to score once, twice, three, four, five, 10 goals. To not show respect is to think it is a poor team, play so slow, think 2-0 or 3-0 is enough, then waiting for the game to end.

“To show respect for the opponent is to go and kill with every single action. That is the way you show it. You need to be aggressive. That is how I understand football.” The Spurs boss also accepted his share of the blame after the high of beating Manchester United.

“After United, all the signals from the team were that we were going to crash,” he said. “I am guilty because I saw that but I cannot change that situation.

“Now to win against Liverpool can change the mood and perception but we need to be consistent.”

Pochettino insisted it is too early to judge his club’s title credentials against the bigspending Reds.

“Today to talk is empty words because we don’t know what happens,” he added. “Football is about results and we’ll see what happens, whether we are right or not.”