The Chelsea boss is struggling for friends after a woeful
start to the season, but his Liverpool counterpart says he
knows what he is going through and feels he has not
stagnated
Jurgen Klopp has expressed sympathy for Jose Mourinho as a poor
start to the season leaves him on the brink of the sack at Chelsea.
Reports have suggested that Mourinho's time at Stamford
Bridge could come to an end if his side lose to Klopp's Liverpool on
Saturday, having led the Premier League champions through a
woeful defence of their title so far, as they sit 15th after 10
league games.
However, the new Reds boss insists it is possible for Mourinho
to turn it around - pointing to his own experiences as proof that it
is possible
Borussia Dortmund fell out of the Bundesliga title picture
spectacularly last season under Klopp, and went into the winter
break bottom of the pile before recovering and scraping European
qualification.
"I wasn't interested in what was being said in public last season,"
Klopp said of those struggles. "I had a responsibility to the Dortmund
fans and players.
"If people didn't understand our problems, then I didn't care. You
have to rule your own situation.
"Most of the problems are in the press conferences when you have
to find the answers. Sometimes you don't have the time to change
things between matches.
"Mourinho isn't a worse coach than last year. The players aren't
worse than last year. Things happen. I feel for him as I had
something similar but it's not the end of the world. They can still
play football and that's our problem."
Clashes between Liverpool and Chelsea have taken on an extra edge
in recent years, with the sides' rivalry intensifying off the back of
the Merseyside club's contentious Champions League semi-final win in
2005.
But Klopp pointed out that this season's clash may not live up to the
billing.
"It is a big match but in 15 years in football I've had some big
matches," he added. "I don't read the newspapers so I don't know
what you think about this game but it wouldn't change anything if
I knew it because I am full of motivation to win games.
"The better the opponent the more excited the world around us is.
Maybe in history it was a great game. Now it is ninth versus 15th."
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