Jürgen Klopp has said Liverpool’s Champions League comeback against Barcelona was worth more than silverware and his team have produced a season to savour regardless of who wins the Premier League.

The Liverpool manager will deliver the club’s first league title for 29 years on Sunday should his team defeat Wolves at Anfield and Manchester City fail to win at Brighton. They can also become champions of Europe for a sixth time on 1 June with victory over Tottenham in Madrid.

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Klopp’s wait for a first trophy as Liverpool manager will continue even with 97 points, however, should Pep Guardiola’s champions win a 14th consecutive league game. But, while insisting Liverpool will fight to the last second to win the Premier League, Klopp maintains a season of consistent quality with incredible highs such as Barcelona will not be undermined by City retaining the title.

“It’s really not about me, it’s really about the club,” the Liverpool manager said when asked about winning his first trophy at Anfield. “We all have to make the best of the circumstances that we have. That’s what we try. If that leads to silverware then wonderful, but we cannot do more. If people judge me on not winning something in the past or winning something in the future, I cannot change that. All I can do is my best and I am 100% sure I do my best. It’s not perfect, because it’s me, but I cannot do more.

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The sensible permutations are simple. A win for Manchester City and the trophy will continue to adorn sky blue ribbons for another year. Any mistake, and Jurgen Klopp’s side can grab a first title in 29 years. Guardiola will be expecting a routine win away at Brighton and Klopp will equally anticipate three points against Wolves at Anfield, but what about that elusive 39th match? The 2018-2019 Premier League handbook states that in the case that the title "cannot be determined because two or more clubs are equal on points, goal difference and goals scored, the clubs concerned shall play off one or more deciding league matches on neutral grounds, the format, timing and venue of which shall be determined by the Board."

For everything to be equal on Sunday evening Manchester City will need to lose 4-0 at the Amex coupled with a 4-4 draw at Anfield. Both teams would finish on 95 points, with a goal difference of +65, and 91 goals scored.

There is a precedent for this absurdly fantastical turn of events. Sort of. Guardiola hasn’t been immune to a hammering as City boss, overseeing the club’s 4-0 defeat to Everton in January 2017, while a trip back to the winter of 1983 would find an FA Cup occasion that did, in fact, see Brighton demolish City by a scoreline of 4-0.

For Liverpool, meanwhile, the mere mention of “4-4” conjures up memories of a Premier League classic in which the Rafa Benitez-led Reds were on the receiving end of Andrei Arshavin’s brief dalliance with genius.

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“This season has been a year full of wonderful moments together. Looking forward to games, enjoying games and last Tuesday was the icing on the cake so far. Wow. That’s exactly the picture we want to draw for the outside world – this is Liverpool, it’s possible here, it’s possible in this club and in this city with the people around. That’s the picture. A moment like this is worth more than silverware.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Klopp leads the celebrations in front of the Kop after the incredible comeback against Barcelona. Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images

“The job is to develop as far and as high as possible so it gets more and more likely that you win silverware and that’s what we’ve done so far. Now we go to a final and we’ll play it, learn from the past few years and see what we can do there. Sunday is our last Premier League game. It’s not in our hands what we get but it doesn’t make our season a little bit less good. It’s just a different finish.”

Klopp said he does not need “any more hope or belief than I already have” for the final day and that Liverpool’s focus has only to be on defeating a dangerous Wolves team. The hosts collected several injuries during the semi-final comeback against the Spanish champions but Klopp said the message from a defiant dressing room was: “It’s only pain.”

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He added: “Strange things can happen. The ball still has to go in. Our last game [at Newcastle] was decided with a header from a free-kick. There is a bunch of players around and one head is in the right spot and thank God it is one of ours. Then City decides the game the next day with a shot from Vincent Kompany from outside the stadium. Wolves can score, Brighton can score and then everyone has to deal with the situation. I didn’t need any other signs that things like these are possible because they are.

“It was a week of miracles, of big football moments, and if there could be a big football moment on the weekend that would be nice. The week is not over yet.”

Klopp described the Champions League final as a meeting of the “two teams who showed the biggest heart in the whole competition” but was fiercely critical of the exorbitant prices fans are being charged in Madrid and of Uefa’s “irresponsible” choice of locations for finals.

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Klopp said: “With Madrid it’s unbelievably expensive, but it’s not another part of the world at least. Going to Baku for a Europa League final is really funny. The guys who make the decisions, I don’t know what they have for breakfast. Last year we went to Kiev, which is a wonderful city, but that a Russian team or a team from that part of the world would be involved is not really likely. These decisions must be much more sensible and reasonable. It looks irresponsible.”

The timing of the Nations League finals also attracted the ire of Klopp, a long-time critic of Uefa’s latest competition. “On the 1st June we play a Champions League final and on the 6th there is a wonderful tournament called the Nations Cup,” he said, sarcastically. “Everybody looked at me when I said it was not such a good idea and, whoops, there are two teams in the final who are English. If we don’t learn to deal with our players in a better way, competition-wise, it’s the only chance to kill this wonderful game. Because without the players, it’s not a good one.”