I guess you never watched Liverpool before they got Salah and Alison. They finished 8th in their first season under Klopp and scraped a 4th place in his second. People always like to forget the past. This is from a manager that had a wealth of experience from Borrusia.
I watched Liverpool before we got Salah and Alisson. Klopp inherited a side that had struggled for the previous 15 months, lacked any sort of identity, couldn't score more than a goal a game when Sturridge wasn't fit and rapidly going backwards. In that first season our results remained hugely inconsistent but Klopp still made tangible improvements and changes - from his very first game there was a clear change in terms of style of play and philosophy, we were scoring freely again and week by week you were seeing improvements in performance level. It's also worth noting that we played a crazy amount of games that season due to FA Cup replays and making it to the final of the League Cup and Europa League, beating several strong sides on the way.
As for his 2nd season, I'm not sure why you're making out that finishing 4th was an underachievement. As you say, we finished 8th the previous season (and 6th the season before), yet despite having a negative net spend we climbed back into the top 4. Lets add some context to that too though. Up until November time we were competing with Chelsea at the top of the league, the team had taken a clear shape and we were playing excellent football. We lacked the depth in attack and a defence to sustain that form though and when Coutinho picked up a lengthy injury, followed by Mane leaving for AFCON and then returning only to get injured and miss the remainder of the season a month or so after, our results suffered.
You then have the next season, with another negative net spend and we're reaching the CL final and have put together one of the best sides in European football. We lacked the depth to be able to compete on multiple fronts though and our league form suffered in the final couple of months of the season when injuries built up and we were concentrating on the CL.
I don't think we need to bother going over last season or the start of this season. Klopp hasn't only improved us each season he's been at the club but he's done so with a clear long term plan which has meant we haven't just had the on spike in improvement, we've been able to build on the success of the previous season and get better and better. He's done all of that despite inheriting a squad not nearly as strong as the one Ole did* and having a combined net spend in 4 years as Liverpool manager of equal or even less than Ole spent this summer alone.
*Yes Utd's performances and results fell off a cliff at the end of Mourinho's reign but Utd still had one of the most costly assembled squads in world football and had finished 2nd just 6 months earlier. Other than a short term spike in results, what has Ole changed or improved? Is there any clear change in style of play or an obvious foundation that's being built?
