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Klopp wins Premier League manager of the season

By AFP |   15 August 2020   |   12:45 pm  

Jurgen Klopp has been named Premier League manager of the season after guiding the club to their first league title in three decades.

The 53-year-old German beat Chelsea’s Frank Lampard, Leicester City’s Brendan Rodgers, who Klopp replaced at Liverpool in 2015, and Sheffield United’s Chris Wilder.

Liverpool coasted to the title, they narrowly lost out on to Manchester City in the previous campaign.

They garnered 99 points, winning 32 of their 38 league games, to finish 18 points clear of Manchester City.

Klopp who coached Liverpool to the Champions League trophy in the 2018/19 season picked up in July the League Manager’s Association manager of the year award.

The Premier League award Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold won the young player gong on Friday is a cumulation of votes from the public combined with those of a panel of football experts.

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