EPL Will Be Tough For Conte, Pep – Klopp

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp believes the Premier League is attracting Europe’s top coaches because it offers the “biggest challenge” in the game.

Klopp took over as Liverpool boss last October, and he has been joined in England this summer by former Juventus and Italy coach Antonio Conte at Chelsea and Pep Guardiola at Manchester City.

Guardiola arrives at the Etihad widely considered to be the best manager in world football, having won 14 trophies at Barca and three consecutive Bundesliga titles at Bayern.

With Jose Mourinho having taken the reins at Manchester United, several of the most high-profile coaches are now in England.

“I think all these managers are here because competition makes it really interesting,” Klopp told the Liverpool Echo. “If you are three times in a row Spanish champions, three times in a row Bundesliga champions, then you think OK, let’s try something else.

“If you are looking for the biggest challenge, then you need to go to England. That’s the difference 100 percent. It’s not like they wanted an easier job. They wanted this.

“Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all. There are the most teams who can [win the title].”

The former Borussia Dortmund head coach added: “It’s not easy in Germany where all the clubs take points from each other. If you want to be in front of Bayern Munich, you have to win all the other games and then a minimum of one against Bayern. They don’t lose.

“There are a few teams in England who have always been playing Champions League in recent years but nobody is satisfied. It’s because one other team has always been better.

“In this country it’s a very different kind of difficulty. Here you have a number of clubs who think they should be No. 1.

“In Germany, there is one team who think they have to be No. 1 [Bayern] and one team who think they should be [Dortmund]. The rest hope for I don’t know what.”