Former professional footballer and apparent pundit Danny Mills deserves the furious fan fightback he’s getting after comments he made about Liverpool.
While the Red half of Merseyside is away celebrating Jurgen Klopp’s four year anniversary in charge of the club, shock jocks have taken to the airwaves in an awful hunt for airtime.
talkSPORT are the worst of a bad bunch, and really it goes against every moral fiber in your body to give them more oxygen, but they’ve taken the biscuit with this one.
Every week there’s some washed up former professional or manager who nobody will touch anymore alongside Alan Brazil and his merry band looking to say things just to stir up callers and get Twitter mentions.
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We’re not going to make you watch it, but Mills asked if one trophy in four years at Liverpool was enough to call Klopp a great manager. This obsession with silverware gathering and cabinet stacking completley misses the point about the ability of most managers in the game.
Do you know how hard it is to win one? Very. There’s only four chances to win one in England, one three of those can be decided on a complete one-off fluke and the other is a 38 game slog through fixture congestion, bad owners and player power.
And his words complete ignore the rebuild Klopp did after Brendan Rodgers left Liverpool. We had that one campaign of magic under Rodgers but the German essentially ripped things out and started again from the bottom.
Klopp transformed players like Roberto Firmino into the star he is now, led the Reds back to the Champions League and attracted people like Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah to the club while shifting all the deadwood.
Liverpool also reached three European finals in three years (two Europa League and two Champions League) and finished second with 97 Premier League points behind a breathless Manchester City.
Come on Mills, give it a rest.