PHOTO: Liverpool’s legend, Collymore hails Antonio Conte, calling him best manager in EPL, and Klopp should learn from the best

Collymore who once played  for Liverpool, has criticised both Manchester City coach, Pep and that of Liverpool, for their lack of respect to the English Premier league, and as a result, they are both  struggling to adapt and keep pace with the likes of Chelsea...

While praising the Chelsea manager for his foresight  to recognise the problem with his team and fixing it immediately to get results, the likes of Manchester City and Liverpool seems to be struggling to fix theirs, losing games after games, even with the so called ‘smaller’ teams...He said:

‘Jurgen Klopp’s biggest crime this season was telling fans and players alike that they could play that way — his high-octane, heavy-metal football — and expect no physical drop-off.

‘Playing Klopp’s way would leave a player knackered by January or February — which is what has happened.

‘Klopp has his own philosophy like Pep Guardiola, who couldn’t kid us with some of his tactical innovations, like full-backs playing in central midfield, that had people saying he was a genius who has revolutionised the sport.

 ‘But they both should have gone into this season open-minded and more respectful of English football.

‘To say they are failures is ridiculous, but now I’d like to see them look at someone like Antonio Conte.

 ‘After six games at Chelsea, he realised he needed to respect what the league he’d joined was about, realised what he was trying wasn’t working and rectified it by changing his formation and making sure his team were good at the things their opposition would be — like corners and set-pieces.

‘And who is the best manager in the Premier League? The man who is top of it, and will be opposite Klopp at Anfield on Tuesday night — Conte.’