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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp branded “an idiot” by West Brom’s James McClean

He said: “It was the best atmosphere in my time in England, absolutely great and I wanted to say thank you”.

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“He’s still very young – you don’t realise how young he is sometimes!”

With the Reds struggling to beat Swansea, and then failing to win any of their games against Newcastle United, FC Sion and West Brom, there is still a lot of work to be done before the Merseysiders can truly start challenging the big guns in the Premier League.

“The players and fans are obviously behind him, even though it is clear he will need better players to take Liverpool back to the top and maximise the team’s potential”.

Jordan Henderson has cited Divock Origi’s 96th-minute equaliser against Tony Pulis’s team as evidence of the indefatigable spirit Liverpool have developed under Klopp.

“Every moment with him is a good memory for me rather than picking a particular one up”.

“Maybe the crowd were disappointed but they didn’t let us feel that”.

“Plenty of others, meanwhile, will pour scorn on Klopp for lining Liverpool’s players up in front of the Kop at the final whistle and making them bow repeatedly”, wrote Dominic King of The Daily Mail.

Mignolet’s error, one of a number he’s made in recent games, may give Jurgen Klopp something to think about in the long term, but the German had more pressing concerns with 15 minutes to go in the game when Jonas Olsson headed the Baggies into an unlikely lead.

“But for me that ugly, unambitious stuff where sides are not really bothered about trying to create chances is simply the product of the business side of football nowadays”. “Usually I shake hands, I did not today because it was not a friendly game”. I have no problems with that.

Liverpool, who were drawn against Augsburg in the last-32 of the Europa League, and their fallibility at set-pieces were exposed by West Brom who scored with their only two efforts on target, both coming from corners.

“The two worst tackles in the game were James Milner’s challenge on Gardner and Martin Skrtel’s challenge on Salomon Rondon”.

If the reaction of the Anfield crowd – and a poll on the Liverpool Echo website – is anything to go by, he might have stuck the right chord.

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The news will come as a blow as Liverpool desperately try to find ways to get Sturridge back to fitness for a prolonged period, with the 25-year-old enduring another injury-plagued season that’s restricted him to just three appearances so far.

Juergen Klopp and Simon Mignolet