Jurgen Klopp is shameless! Liverpool manager's 13 biggest whinges after embarrassing Tottenham replay calls

Two months after Klopp's arrival on Merseyside, Liverpool had dropped to 10th in the Premier League table, with five draws and three losses posted in his first 16 games at the helm. The 'Gengenpressing' tactical approach that served him so well at Borussia Dortmund wasn't working with the Reds - which he blamed on the English weather.

Klopp told reporters: "There is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather. The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany and you have to keep things simple. Players who are not from the UK have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style of football as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple."

Liverpool reached the League Cup semi-finals in 2016-17, and lost the first leg of their tie against Southampton 1-0 at Anfield. Klopp's side then exited the competition after being beaten by the same scoreline at St Mary's, despite dominating possession with 83 percent of the ball.

Instead of pointing to a lack of cutting edge, Klopp insisted that his old nemesis, the wind, was the main reason for Liverpool's failure.

"First half, it was difficult – the wind was really strange, it was difficult to handle," he said. "You saw one or two times when the ball stopped in a moment when nobody knew about it. That was difficult for a football-playing side."

In January 2018, Liverpool's FA Cup hopes went up in smoke after a surprise 3-2 fourth-round loss to West Brom at Anfield. Lengthy VAR reviews took place in the first half as West Brom saw a goal disallowed, Liverpool had a penalty awarded, and the visitors' had their third goal of the game upheld.

There was only four minutes of stoppage-time, though, and Klopp suggested that match broadcaster BT Sport was responsible for the reduction.

“What I heard was that the actual extra time in the first half should have been 10 minutes," said the German coach. "It was only four. I heard that television said it’s not longer than four minutes.

"Of course that’s not possible, you can’t cut match time because there is something else to broadcast. I don’t know what was on afterwards, maybe the news or something. It was 10 minutes and so you need to play 10 minutes longer. You can't say, ‘It’s now a little bit too long.’”

Liverpool faced West Brom again three months later in the Premier League, this time at The Hawthorns, and slumped to a 2-2 draw after surrendering a two-goal lead late on. The visitors were certainly guilty of allowing their concentration levels to dip, but Klopp was more frustrated over the state of the pitch, and couldn't resist a petty dig at the all-but relegated Baggies.

"It was a difficult game, especially after the pitch got drier and drier, we had the ball constantly and it's not so easy," Klopp complained. "West Brom obviously decided not to water the pitch at half-time again. It was quite difficult.

"I was not happy with the pitch. You never played football, obviously. It makes a massive difference. If you're like West Brom, the ball constantly in the air, you don't need a wet pitch. That's how it is and we have to deal with that. They can do it next year, playing with a dry pitch in the Championship."

Liverpool emerged as the main challengers for Manchester City's Premier League crown in 2018-19, and in December, Klopp attempted to turn the heat up on Pep Guardiola's side. He sensationally claimed that the other 18 teams in the division try harder against the Reds than City, who he believed were being shown far too much "respect".

"They don't have the same respect for us that they have for Man City, for example," Klopp stated. "Against City, you watch it and wonder what they are doing. A week later they play us and they are thinking, 'right, let's try'. City deserve that, but it makes a big difference because we have to be 100 percent concentrated all the time."

Klopp took aim at the snow when Liverpool dropped two valuable points at home to Leicester City a month later. Only one end of the Anfield pitch had actually been cleared in an apparent attempt to give the Reds an advantage in the match, but the Foxes still managed to earn a 1-1 draw on the night, with Klopp insisting his team couldn't play in their usual free-flowing style.

"You saw that the ball didn't roll really," he said after the final whistle. "If you then have the ball pretty much for 70 to 80 percent of the time, it makes life really uncomfortable. The only problem is if it stays on the pitch and that was actually the case."

Klopp was fined £45,000 for his criticism of the match officials after a 1-1 draw away at West Ham in Liverpool's next Premier League outing, despite the fact his team benefitted more from incorrect decisions.

Replays showed that Sadio Mane's opening goal should have been ruled out for a James Milner offside in the build-up, and Divock Origi got through one-on-one with Lukasz Fabianski in the dying moments of the game after the linesman missed another offside - but the West Ham keeper kept out the Liverpool striker's shot.

Incredibly, Klopp claimed that the officials attempted to make up for the Mane goal with a series of calls against his side in the second half, as he said to Sky Sports: "We had good moments, coming through the channels and scored the goal, which I’ve now been told is offside. This explains a little bit the second half, because I think the referee knew at half-time.

"He knew it for sure at half-time, and then you saw a lot of strange situations. They were not decisive but just rhythm breakers. That obviously didn’t help us. If I’ve made a mistake in the first half, I don’t want to open the gap even more as a human being."

Liverpool were held to a goalless draw by Manchester United later in February, with the hosts hampered by injuries to three players in the first half. However, Klopp expressed his belief that the personnel changes actually gave United an advantage, telling reporters: "It was a strange game. We started really, really well, exactly as we wanted to start. Then the injury crisis started as well. That obviously cost us our rhythm. It was like, 'What's going on now?'

"United played with a completely new midfield, pretty much a new three up front. We lost the rhythm and couldn't get it back."

Liverpool opened their 2020-21 Champions League campaign with a tricky away fixture against Ajax, and walked away with all three points thanks to a Nicolas Tagliafico own goal. Ajax had plenty of chances themselves, though, with the Reds scraping over the line in the end thanks to some last-ditch defending, heroics from Alisson, and the post.

But in typical Klopp fashion, he blamed the pitch for Liverpool's physical struggles on the night. He said: "The pitch was really tricky, it was deep, muddy a little bit. Maybe you can't see it from outside, but it was like this because both teams looked really exhausted pretty early."

Klopp added: "Surprisingly, the pitch was not good. I thought a football playing side would have a good pitch."

Liverpool slipped to a 1-1 draw away at Brighton in November that season, with Pascal Gross' stoppage-time penalty cancelling out a Diogo Jota effort for the visitors.

James Milner had to be withdrawn in the 74th minute with a hamstring injury, which Klopp suggested was down to BT Sport scheduling lunchtime kick-offs for teams who had played in the Champions League earlier in the week.

In an extraordinary rant at journalist Des Kelly, the Liverpool manager said: "I don't know how often I have to say it, but you pick the 12:30 kick-offs. Between now and December, there is one more Wednesday to Saturday.

"These are difficult times. I am just saying it how it is... Wednesday to Saturday 12:30 is really dangerous."

Liverpool suffered a big blow in their 2020-21 title pursuit after a 1-0 loss to Southampton at St Mary's, with former Reds striker Danny Ings grabbing the winner just two minutes in. However, Klopp felt Liverpool should have been given a penalty for a perceived foul on Mane, and vented his frustration by taking a swipe at arch-rivals Manchester United.

The former Dortmund boss said: “I hear now that Manchester United had more penalties in two years than I had in five-and-a-half years. I’ve no idea if that’s my fault, or how that can happen."

Liverpool got their hands on their first League Cup under Klopp in 2021-22, but had to get through the semi-final stage the hard way after a 0-0 first-leg draw with Arsenal at Anfield. The clash was pushed back eight days to January 14 after the initial fixture was postponed due to a number of Covid-19 cases in the Liverpool camp - which ultimately came back as 40 false positives.

Arsenal battled to a draw with 10 men after Granit Xhaka was shown a red card in the 24th minute, and Liverpool only managed one shot on target despite their numerical advantage.

Trent Alexander-Arnold was the only Reds player to feature against Arsenal after being laid low with the virus, but Klopp bizarrely seemed to suggest that the whole team had failed to recover from a virus that they never actually had.

"It's strange, even without symptoms, the boys came back and it's not exactly the same," he said to Sky Sports post-match. "I don't think there's any explanation for that, but we have to consider that as well."

Liverpool's chances of winning the Premier League in 2022-23 were ended in January, as a 3-1 humbling at Brentford left them 15 points behind leaders Arsenal having played a game more.

Klopp accused Brentford of using underhand tactics to get the win, telling Sky Sports: "Of course, I’m not 100 percent happy, I will have to watch it back again and again because the two corners where they scored, one of them was offside or whatever it was, and then the other one of course we don’t behave perfectly.

"But they are stretching the rules in this moment, they are pushing, holding and everything and the refs, that’s obviously what you can do, that’s why it’s really difficult and we could have done better.”