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Liverpool news: Jurgen Klopp named LMA manager of the year

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp before the Premier League match at St. James' Park

German claims award despite his Liverpool side missing out to Pep Guardiola's Manchester City in the Premier League title race.

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has been named the 2021/22 League Managers' Association manager of the year.
The German won the award for the second time in three years despite the Reds missing out to Pep Guardiola's Manchester City in a thrilling Premier League title race.

Speaking at the LMA awards ceremony, Klopp thanked his fellow managers for voting for him.

"This being voted for by my colleagues is obviously most important prize you can get," the 54-year-old said.

"I don’t believe in individual prizes in football generally, it is a team sport and I would be nothing without these boys there.

"It is all about what we can do together and what we did together."

Klopp, who also collected the LMA Premier League manager of the year gong on Tuesday night, picked out Nottingham Forest's Steve Cooper as a man who could have beaten him to the award.

After taking over at ther City Ground with his new side struggling in the Championship, Cooper guided the Tricky Trees to a fourth-place finish and the forthcoming play-off final.

Chris Wilder was the last manager working outside the top flight to win the award, doing so in 2019 after winning promotion with Sheffield United.

Other contenders this time around included last year's winner Guardiola, Eddie Howe, who transformed Newcastle's season after taking over in November, Brentford's Thomas Frank and Patrick Vieira, of Crystal Palace.

Klopp's men briefly went favourites to win the title - and stay in the hunt to win an unprecedented Quadruple - on the final day of the season on Sunday.
City trailed Aston Villa 2-0 with 15 minutes to go, leaving the door seeming ajar for Liverpool to strike. However, Guardiola's men scored three times in five minutes to turn that game on its head - and secure a fourth Premier League crown in five seasons.
Having already won the FA Cup and EFL Cup, Liverpool still have the chance of finishing the season with three trophies. They face Real Madrid in the final of the Champions League in Paris on Saturday.
The LMA Championship manager of the year prize went to Fulham's Marco Silva after he guided the Cottagers back to the Premier League as champions.
Wigan's Leam Richardson took the League One honour, with the League Two award going to Exeter's Matt Taylor.
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