Liverpool: Premier League Champions

'We have to change from doubters to believers.' Those where the words that Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said in his first press conference when he was appointed the job in October 2015. Now, those words have change to past as Liverpool are crowned Premier League champions for the first time ever and their first league title in thirty years. They did have some help from Chelsea as the Blues beat Manchester City 2-1 yesterday at Stamford Bridge thanks to goals from Christian Pulisic and Willian, meaning Liverpool have won the league with seven games to spare, a Premier League record. Despite its inevitability, Liverpool's achievement this season should not be underestimated as they have blown the competition to finally reach the holy grail.

Following last season where they won the Champions League but missed out on the title despite gaining 97 points, many questioned how Liverpool will pick themselves up this season despite amassing the third highest points tally in English football history but were beaten by a fantastic Manchester City side last season led by Pep Guardiola. Jürgen Klopp, however, have kept faith in the squad that he has built for over four years and it has bear fruit over the past two years, winning the Champions League, the Club World Cup and finally the Premier League.

Liverpool's history in the Premier League era has been filled with inconsistency and near misses. Since the advent of the Premier League, they were slow to adapt to the changes which enabled the likes of Manchester United and Arsenal to dominate the league in the 1990s to early 2000s from poor recruitment, poor infrastructure, poor managerial choices, better finances from their rivals, etc. The likes of Chelsea and Manchester City with their new money made the task for Liverpool a lot harder to compete, with the competition ever increasing.

Despite winning various cups and European titles since 1990, Liverpool's quest to win the Premier League have been close on numerous occasions from the 2001/02 season, 2008/09 and the 2013/14 season having world class players from Steven Gerrard, Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler, Xabi Alonso, Sami Hyypia, Jamie Carragher, Fernando Torres, Pepe Reina and Luis Suárez under the likes of Gérard Houillier, Rafa Benítez and Brendan Rodgers, who were close in winning Liverpool the title but to not avail from horrible slip-ups to freak moments.

The late 2000s and early 2010s were a pretty dark period in Liverpool's modern history with the short stint of Roy Hogdson and the financial troubles under American owners Tom Hick and George Gillett as the club were in the brink of administration before current owners Fenway Sports Group (FSG) brought the club in late 2010. FSG have improved Liverpool finances gradually and following the sacking of Brendan Rodgers in October 2015, they made their biggest signing in appointing Jürgen Klopp as manager.

The German has been able to the club in his own image with the backing of Fenway and the support of those behind the scenes from Mike Gordon, President of FSG to technical director Michael Edwards, who oversees transfers at Anfield. From the signings of Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mané, Alisson Becker and Virgil van Dijk, tactical improvements and a never say die attitude, Liverpool have became a rampant winning machine in the league and in Europe as they haven't tasted defeat at Anfield since March 2017 and only lost a Champions League tie at home once. Making Anfield a fortress.

Their achievements don't stop there. They can still break the record for the most points in a league season, the biggest gap between first and second, and having a perfect record at Anfield. Whatever happens, Jürgen Klopp has put himself in Liverpool history and it's rightfully deserved from him, Fenway, and the players for making Liverpool fans believers and they could dominate for years to come.