Rafa was challenging for silverware almost every season and his specialty is always with the cup.
04/05 - Champions League Winner
05/06 - FA Cup Winner & UEFA Super Cup (if that matters)
06/07 - Champions League finalist
07/08 - Champions League Semifinal - most underwhelming season
08/09 - 2nd place in Premier League - pretty close run
09/10 - the ultimate downfall
All these under the shit administration of Tom Hicks and George Gillet.
15/16 - League Cup finalist, Europa League Finalist, and 8th place league finish.
16/17 - Round 4 FA Cup, 4th place league. Semi Final League Cup
17/18 - Champions League finalist, 4th place league, early exit in domestic cups.
The best players he had was Gerrard, Carragher, Hyypia. He had minimal and slow rebuild with Alonso, Garcia, Reina and co. Klopp came in with a much better starting 11 and a better owner.
I'm not knighting Rafa or dissing Klopp. I just don't know how you came up with Rafa was not consistent in challenging silverware even more so less than Klopp when you can actually see, Klopp is behind in the 1st 3 seasons. Just because he had a crap final season doesn't mean that is all we should remember him by. Rafa did more with less and I hope Klopp can do much better with this much resources available to him.
Come on, it was less competitive back then when Rafa was in charge. We only have one super rich club which was Chelsea.