players who should’ve been in the Team of the Year

The German feels most of his starting XI deserved to make the team (Picture: Getty)

Jurgen Klopp believes Liverpool should have had even more representation in the PFA Team of the Year despite having four players for the first time in the Premier League era.

The Merseysiders have never previously had more than three players make the best XI at the end of the season, but this year Virgil van Dijk, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Andy Robertson and Sadio Mane all made the team.

Title rivals Manchester City had six players in the Team of the Year, however, and Klopp believes more of his players should have featured instead – including joint top scorer Mohamed Salah.

‘It’s impressive, deserved as well, for me, my team is team of the season anyway,’ the German explained at his pre-match press conference ahead of facing Huddersfield on Friday night.

‘From my point of view there could’ve been four, five, six, even seven more [Liverpool] players involved.

‘The players in the Premier League make the decision, it’s the most honest competition of the year, even if the players don’t watch all of the games.

‘It’s even more special when you come in a team of the year as a defender because it mostly when players have played against them and thought after that it wasn’t easy.

Salah is level on 19 league goals with Aguero and Aubameyang (Picture: EPA)

‘Mo [Salah] would’ve deserved it again, again he’s up there with the top scorers, scored so many important goals for us.

‘Gini [Wijnaldum] plays an incredible season, 100%, Hendo [Jordan Henderson] is in a shape where if the players voted today he’d probably be in.’