Cristiano Ronaldo's poor form did not go unnoticed by Jürgen Klopp

After last season's runners-up finish in the Premier League and Champions League, the 2022/23 season did not get off to the best start for Liverpool. The team managed by Jürgen Klopp won only two games out of seven in the domestic competition and is in ninth place in the championship. And in international competition, they were thrashed 4-1 by Napoli in the first matchday and recovered with a 2-1 home win over Ajax.

So, after the draw against Brighton, Klopp was asked in an interview with AS if he felt the team had lost confidence and that's why they were not getting the results. And to answer, the German DT used Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi as an example: "Do you think Cristiano Ronaldo has a lot of confidence at the moment? That happens to all of us. Lionel Messi started last season in more or less the same way.

And, he continued, "You have to take a step in the right direction, and when you're ready then the confidence comes back. In individual sports you can fight your way out of it. In a team sport you have to do it all together. It can be more complicated. And on Liverpool's inconsistent start to the season, he said: "After the Napoli game, we realised that we hit rock bottom and that we had to change things quickly.

We didn't play Wolverhampton, but we played Ajax. Then we didn't play Chelsea, so we couldn't continue the good feeling we had against Ajax. Later we hosted Brighton, a very good team, and we conceded two goals very early on. When you see a problem and you think you have the solution you expect to be able to fix it instantly, but in football that's not usually the case,' he added.

Klopp compared Liverpool's poor form to that of Cristiano Ronaldo

There is no pressure on Klopp from within Liverpool, it has to be said. This is not Chelsea, where a manager is sacked at the first sign of trouble. Klopp has as much credit on the bench as any manager in the game, and rightly so. What he has done with this club, this team, has been magnificent. He will have time to turn things around, and it would be brave to bet against him doing so, but if Fenway Sports Group are paying close attention to what is happening, they will surely realise that time is one thing, and support and backing is another, and that Klopp is going to need plenty of both in the transfer market going forward.