Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp admits the burden of past title triumphs is off the shoulders of his players after they were confirmed Premier League champions.
Manchester City's loss at Chelsea on Thursday night means Liverpool have an unassailable lead at the top of the Premier League table, and have clinched their first top-flight title in 30 years.
"The history is no burden anymore. The history is now our wonderful background for the basis of what we are doing," Klopp told Sky Sports News.
"When I came in, we had to say 'don't compare us anymore with anybody', with this wonderful, fantastic people who played for this club and won everything for this club in the past. We cannot - the world's changed.
"We need to get the opportunity from you actually, our supporters, to find our own way. This is only possible because nobody lost patience with us in any moment. Football managers is a nice job but a difficult one as well because we cannot really ask for time.
"We have to deliver immediately, people have to see the steps we make and people saw them because they wanted to see them. So the story was possible."
