Jurgen Klopp has called for everyone to ‘calm down’ as Liverpool fans continued protests about the failed European Super League plot by calling for their owners to go.
While the hated European Super League might be dead in the water, fans of the ‘big six’ English clubs involved continue to vent their fury up and down the country.
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There have been protests at Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City, Manchester United, Tottenham – and now Liverpool fans are calling on owner John W Henry and his FSG group to sell up outside Anfield.
American billionaire Henry delivered a personal apology to Reds supporters after the club pulled out of the Super League just 48 hours after it was announced.
Speaking before the 1-1 draw with Newcastle, Klopp called on pundits to ‘calm down’ and accept a mistake had been made.
“I’ve seen the pictures over the last few days, last night Arsenal and Chelsea as well. I really think you all have to calm down,” he told BT Sport.
“There are three journalists all the time, talking all day about it. It’s winding up people. We are still in a pandemic.
“People are out there without face masks shouting their opinions. Pundits have to calm down.
“Yes, we didn’t want it, but let’s deal with it. The people, they learned their lessons, 100 per cent.
“So just relax a little bit, we have to carry on. That’s always what we have to do.”
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But to many Liverpool fans, the behaviour of their ownership has caused irreparable damage, going against the foundations built by legendary manager Bill Shankly.
Outside Anfield on Saturday, one banner told Henry he had ‘blood on his hands’ and another said the club was ‘built by Shanks, broken by Yanks’.
Klopp also moved to defend the club’s owners yesterday, insisting they aren’t bad people, even though he disagreed with their plans.
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“Our owners are not perfect, like I’m not perfect, but they’re not bad people,” Klopp said on Friday.
“They have learned their lesson, I’m sure. My only hope is that our relationship with fans will be stronger after all this.
“There was no personal apology from John W Henry, but that was not necessary in my opinion because I was mentioned in the apology, and the team as well, so that was personal enough for me.”
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