[Blue Baggie]

It's good that having just attributed everything Klopp has done to luck, you take nothing away from him.

Salah failed at Chelsea and wouldn't have been in many lists of the world's best players when he arrived at Anfield; Mane was at Southampton, was every other club after him and did he cost an arm and a leg; Alisson, well, you had to know about keepers to know he was more than just a girl's name, and Van Dijk had illustrated his status as the world's best defender marking Scottish centre forwards hmmmm. He took on Wijnaldum when his career was hitting a dip, Oxlade-Chamberlain was down as a permanently injured show pony, he brought Trent A-A through and gave him responsibility straightaway. Fabinho looks like quite a good recruit too (in about five different positions).

True Coutinho is worth any number you can think of on a going day, but would struggle with the Baggies Reserves at other times ….. and maybe several years down the line Suarez doesn't now look worth £65million, but at the time if any player can ever be worth that, he was terrorising everyone he played. against.

If you sell players when their value is at or above their true value that is NOT luck. That's good business. If you buy and develop several players who a few years down the line would be in the squad for a World XI that can't be just good fortune. Klopp is pretty damned good.

Taking nothing away from either side I hope next season when the Baggies play Liverpool they show you just how good they can be …… and you in true  Baggie tradition do the same in return. You need luck to win anything, but you don't get 23 points clear of Manchester City on the back of a fortune cookie.

I don't disagree with anything you said at all, the luck I refer to was the fees he managed to get. As neither player is worth half of what they were sold for. The other big 5 Arsenal / Man City / Chelsea/ Utd / Spurs have purchased players but not managed to capitalise on them. I think a slice of good luck is involved and it's Liverpool's turn. Klopp deserves all the credit though. It's tough at the top as they say. But the rewards make it all worth while. The 23 points margin is brilliant in this day and age, but for me Arsenals season of the invincible's was the finest performance over a season.