'Last man standing' - Klopp says he only kept his job based on past performance

April 4 - German Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has lamented the rate at which Premier League managers are losing their jobs and says he's only still at his club because of past successes .

Chelsea sacked Graham Potter on Sunday, with the club 11th in the league, hours after relegation-threatened Leicester City offloaded Brendan Rodgers. Meanwhile, Tottenham Hotspur parted ways with Antonio Conte at the end of last month.

Klopp is the oldest current manager in the English top flight, having been at Liverpool since October 2015, but is going through one of his toughest times.

Despite guiding them to Premier League and Champions League titles, he is suddenly under pressure with the club at Anfield eighth in the table - eight points behind the top four.

"What can I say about it (the sackings)? I'm the last man standing," Klopp told reporters ahead of tonight's game against Chelsea.

"I respect them (Potter and Rodgers) a lot. Really good people and fantastic managers, both of them. But things can go wrong.

"That's how it is. Some clubs are underperforming, certainly we are too…There are expectations out there, rightly so, and if you don't meet them, you have to accept the decisions."< /p>

"I also know that I'm still here because of what's happened over the past few years, I don't like having to rely on that."

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