I think he actually does. Some of the comments and excuses from him after spending half a billion quid scream it.
He knows he peaked last season, flunking and fluke-ing a league title, with shippmanns asthmatics still full of salbutamol and running.
The new signings are not the same kind of players as those who they replaced (Diaz is a massive miss for them, even the crab Nunez and also Jota but not to a lesser degree) so they canāt do what they did last season.
Add salah and van baders huge new contracts and drop off in form while being undroppable, and the over paying of wirtz and isak (also undroppable) and even the fullbacks which has totally unbalanced the team he had.
The fans have already turned on him, so he must be thinking wtf, this aināt worth it, Iāll have me pay off.