KOPS Tough to call title battle says boss

JURGEN KLOPP believes the rollercoaster Premier League season could be good for business.

A clutch of clubs are currently fighting it out at the top in what is proving to be the most widely contested title race in years.

And after a period when teams like Liverpool and Manchester City have set new standards in terms of collecting points, Kop boss Klopp reckons the campaign could be in for an exciting climax.

Klopp said: “Man United once won it with 75 points – so will this be the most exciting run-in with different teams? It could be.

“City could run away with it now because they are in a good position with a game in hand and are playing good football.

“But will it be the lowest points? I don’t know how many points are out there to get. We’ll see as well.

“What we are seeing is that it is a difficult season for all teams, maybe apart from West Ham, while Leicester looks pretty good.

“A lot of teams look good but we all have our ups and downs during the season.

“For sure, it is a year where you need to be lucky with injuries to be really on top of things, more so than in other years because of the intensity and because of the amount of games in a specific period.

“But I can imagine looking from outside it is really exciting, especially for the neutral fan. I don’t know who will be champions.

“It is very exciting that a lot of teams are in and some clubs are doing exceptionally well. But nobody knows.”

Liverpool face West Ham at the London Stadium today with their own challenge back on track after a

3-1 victory over

Tottenham in the capital on

Thursday.

He is full of admiration for the job that

David Moyes is doing with the

Hammers after spending the last seven years rebuilding his reputation following an ill-fated spell in charge of Manchester United.

West Ham are challenging strongly for a top-six finish after Moyes was given time to build a team in the same way he once did at Everton.

Klopp, too, knows how important it is for a manager to be given space to work.

The German revealed why he chose Liverpool in October 2015 just a few months after leaving Borussia Dortmund.

Klopp said: “It is easy for people to like Liverpool, especially from abroad.

“I’m not sure about English people. They have a lot of reasons not to like us, I think.

“But from abroad it is really easy to like Liverpool. I didn’t think about how many managers they’d had in the last few years.

“I was just happy about the call and I was ready to take the job.”