Ronnie Whelan not yet ready to join Jurgen Klopp doubters

Photo: Ronnie Whelan with Jim Barry, Barry Group managing director, left, and Danny O’Carroll who plays Buster in Mrs Brown’s Boys, supporting the Seeing is Believing; Free Eye Tests campaign at O’Brien’s Costcutter/Amber forecourt on the Bandon Road in Bishopstown, Cork. The initiative is part of a campaign by the Fighting Blindness charity to tackle age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness for those aged over 50 in Ireland. The charity is offering free eye testing around the country this week. See www.amd.ie Picture: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision

Ronnie Whelan has heard it many times before, since he sat on the famous perch with the rest of Liverpool’s last great team: That first rumble of doubt about a manager in which so much hope has been invested.