Well he'd have one less PL medal and a fair bit less cash for starters. It's been a very good move for him so far. Things might have been different had Klopp come in when he was here, but Man City were a far more attractive proposition than we were in 2015. I don't blame him for leaving, it's just the manner he did it in (and his rat agent didn't help).
By that logic everyone of our stars, Mane, Salah, and Firmino should have left us in the summer. They were under no disillusion on who the favorites were entering this season to win the PL and it wasn't us, nor the demand their talent was felt at other clubs where trophies are much more certain. You would not have had a problem if they all demanded to leave and we just let them go?
Klopp or no Klopp our underdog status entering the season was undoubtedly true, even more the year before with Mane and Firmino, before Salah. That the likes of Bayern, Barca, City and Juventus all could have used a Salah or Mane and they all have a much better chance of winning a league and equally as good of a chance as winning the CL. But they didn't, I can't so for certain why, but it can't be for Klopp alone, he's just a single guy after all. No amount of charisma could overcome everything Liverpool faced entering the season. No, I could only speculate, but it could have only been the message Klopp was saying: of pride in competition, in the pride of overcoming the odds and the challenge of taking on all comers and coming out on top.
At 20 and his entire career ahead of him that pride should have been there, at least for a little while longer. Sterling was not Mbappe, he was not a certainty. He had a lot of promise, but there are a mountain of kids with a plenty of promise who stalled because their clubs didn't develop them properly. But we did develop him properly and that's where the mutual pride should have been.
It might not be entirely his fault, but letting a star player at all of 20 years old go is the lowest I have ever felt at this club. Even more so than the Hodgson era, when we at least still had a few more years of Gerrard and the hope a better owner would come. The closest we have ever been to being Ajax, or Porto, a complete stepping stone academy club with zero pride in actually winning it all. It might sound entitled, but we deserved better than that at the time. Even with all their fuck ups up to that point this club, FSG, Rodgers deserved better than that. At least they were trying with Lallana, Lovren, Can and Balotelli. That's my thoughts on the matter anyway.