Liverpool's INSANE confidence strikes again

Liverpool are confident club. Everyone connected to them knows how big an institution they are in English and European football. When the Reds have their mind set on a goal, anything's possible.

This and so much more helps to make up the intangible feeling of being a Liverpool fan.

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Nothing is ever out of reach. You will constantly be stunned by what you're witnessing.

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Ahead of this season, the expectations around Liverpool were of securing a potential spot in the Champions League places and making an attempt at a trophy win. The squad that Arne Slot had at his disposal was good, but it and his credentials to deliver anything more were unknown.

Furthermore, very little money had been spent in the summer leading up to this season and the sheer impact of losing such an influential figure as Jurgen Klopp was incredibly difficult to comprehend.

Yet in reality, we all underestimated the team and the power of confidence and self-belief.

Liverpool's track record of succeeding against the odds

Back in 2019, the Reds had just come off the back of losing the Premier League title on the final day by one point as Manchester City went on to back up their 'centurions' season with 98 points.

198 points won in 76 games across two seasons - an average of 2.60 points per game in the Premier League across a period of two years. An achievement that was nothing short of mind-blowing.

Although, of course, it was an incredibly heartbreaking time for Liverpool fans, who had watched their team improve by 22 points from the season prior, reach the then third highest PL points tally of all time and still not win the league. Points were dropped in just eight games and one loss was recorded.

However, this team had confidence and an unfathomable amount of self-belief in themselves, so just less than three weeks later, they picked themselves up off the floor and won the Champions League - the club's sixth European Cup.

Those 90 minutes on June 1 firmly banished the demons of losing the competition's final in the season prior, after their heroic journey from the qualifiers to the final was ended by Real Madrid in 2018.

One season, they lost a Champions League; the next, they won a Champions League and lost a Premier League.

Emboldened by their European heroics, while saddened by their brutal domestic loss, Jurgen Klopp somehow found a way to get the team to a point where failure in the Premier League during the 2019/20 season wasn't an option.

Sepp van den Berg, Adrian and Harvey Elliott all joined the club that summer, with an overall transfer expenditure of just £1.3m, although Takumi Minamino joined midway through the season for £7.25m.

But with almost no recruitment at all, Liverpool continued the unbeaten streak that they had built during the end of the following season, and absolutely trounced the league, finishing the campaign on 99 points, sitting 18 points clear of their rivals at the time Manchester City.

While the title-winning celebrations were muted because of the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions, leading to claims that it was an 'unjustified title win' because it was a 'Covid season', the significance of the achievement should never be downplayed.

The Reds now have the second and fourth highest points totals in PL history. The win ended a 30-year drought for a league title, and it came just 12 months after a soul-crushing final day loss.

And all of that was achieved with a transfer spend of £8.5m for the season.

How Slot's title win is reminiscent of Klopp's

This season, as mentioned earlier, the expectations around the team were low. The transfer window was extremely quiet and underwhelming. The season had ended with a drop-off in the title race and it seemed for all the world like it would take Liverpool ages to reach the pinnacles of the Klopp tenure.

But the team was good. The players knew it, Slot knew it straight away, Klopp knew it and us the fans knew it deep down as well - although a bit of financial assistance with fresh transfers would have helped.

Yet, just like we saw following the 2018/19 season, ahead of this campaign we had a team that was outwardly dismissed and written off, despite the great feeling that was around the club.

Following a bright start in the league, claims were thrown around that we hadn't faced anyone good, and that once the more difficult teams came against us, we would be found out.

Only for the argument to now have flipped eight months later to suggest that Slot inherited a 'world class' squad - that no one believed was good enough to win the league with - alongside claims that the quality of the Premier League has declined, all because we've walked away with it once again.

As of Sunday April 27, at around 18:24pm, Liverpool were crowned Champions, after a 5-1 win over Tottenham at Anfield, an opposition that they have scored 15 goals against across four games this season.

Our title rivals, Arsenal, are 15 points behind with four games to go, and the Reds are on track for yet another 90 point season.

Maybe it's a pattern, Liverpool winning the league without any real spending in the summer, or maybe it's the club's instinctive nature. If anyone writes you off, you make it crystal clear to them why they were wrong to by focusing your time and energy into instilling a self-belief that will breed success.

What is next on the horizon for this team is yet to be written. Plenty of recruitment is needed for this team to compete next season, as many players have underdelivered this time.

Quality coaching might be enough to get you out of a hole once, but twice would be truly astonishing.

Eventually you need to utilise your resources and prepare the team accordingly.

But regardless of how the summer goes, I would be reluctant to start writing this team off for a prolonged period of success, even if you aren't expecting one.

As we all know, a confident Liverpool side can beat anyone on their day.

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