Klopp

[orly]

They've got a top class manager. That's [Poor language removed], no?

K o P i T e S b O y S

You're a lot like that gimp @neville - only popping up when the going is good.

Never forget when it looked like Doomsday was happening and they might the league - 'really hope yous get fourth, great to see Merseyside doing well'

The Palace saved the world and you went back to your venom

 

[PITA]

K o P i T e S b O y S

You're a lot like that gimp @neville - only popping up when the going is good.

Never forget when it looked like Doomsday was happening and they might the league - 'really hope yous get fourth, great to see Merseyside doing well'

The Palace saved the world and you went back to your venom

Palace made them cry but Stevie G lost them the league. They could have beaten Palace 13-0 and City would still have sorted it.

 

[Aar_the_Toffees]

Klopp is a good manager, and I'm sad he's gone to Liverpool. I think he will do a good job for them. It is worth putting a few caveats around that

However Liverpool's squad right now is a mess, much like Spurs was at the end of last year. It has a mixture of new-age dribbly CBs (Sakho) with no-nonsense orcs (Skrtel) a midfield with one winger (Ibe, who has gone backwards) a lot of engineroom runners, a surfeit of luxury playmakers and strikers parked out on the wings. This isn't including a lot of people on loan.

First thing he'll have to do is get rid of a lot of players, which will take time - took Spurs ages to get rid of Chiriches, Adebayor, Assou-Ekkoto, Paulinho, Soldado, Naughton, Stambouli etc etc - and work out which ones will fit his system. Unlike Spurs Liverpool's academy is half-baked at best with only a few players coming through. There are easily 10 players who need to be moved on (Lovren, Ilori, Balotelli, Lallana, Allen, Markovic, Enrique, Toure, Flanagan who is perma crocked, Origi etc.)

Klopp's team also typically work with heavy pressing and quick counter attacks. This was relatively novel when it was first introduced in 2008-12 but is standard now for mid-table teams who want a result away (Palace, West Ham, even Leicester). So teams will know what to do when facing it. Also, are you going to have Sturridge doing heavy pressing? It's physically intense which could mean more injuries to a team. When bringing in new players Klopp has always worked with a director of football who he will not have the same link to.

He's a good manager but expectations are very high and all the environment that was set up for him in Dortmund does not exist now. It's a totally different situation and I think success will need 2-3 years and he'll probably lose Coutinho this year as well to Barca

Would gladly take Lallana if it meant getting rid of Osman and Gibson.

 

[Aar_the_Toffees]

Di Matteo won the Champions League but is, as far as I'm aware, not currently gainfully employed. Just saying.

He's a character and I think that it will be interesting if he does join. Hope he fails but who knows what will happen. Reminds me of a Doris Day song.

"Character."

 

[Jags..class]

Let's be honest some of our fans are guilty of building the hype as well,he a good manager but good managers have also failed in this league. We are on the up ourselves. But its takes more then a decent manager. Patient and realistic expectations is needed from the fans and this is what the Liverpool fans don't have. They over hype wins and players in form and go overboard when they lose. It's a circus and managers turn into clowns. Klopp got the potential to become their clown. We will still have our laughs because most of it come from the rs fans. They will always be loaded, and have finished above us for years now. If some of our fans really expected the rs to fade away then they must have lost their marbles anyway. The name is to big and why they get a lot of sponser money.

 

[Ashtonian]

Why would we? We have Roberto Martinez.

if we didn't........

generally if we needed a manager we would all or most of us would love a klopp type appointment

 

[Ashtonian]

Torres was finished after Benitez ran him into the ground.

may be so. He just got worse and worse after he joined Chelsea as far as I know. I remember watching him come in vs psg a couple years back and just thinking he had become a shadow of the player he used to be.

 

[Jags..class]

if we didn't........

generally if we needed a manager we would all or most of us would love a klopp type appointment

Martinez is just as good as klopp

 

[Baines' left foot]

Which is pretty much the point of the thread. Keep all the vaulting material in one place

I like your style.

 

[ijjysmith]

Martinez is just as good as klopp

@MoutsGoat

 

[arbok]

As an Everton and Dortmund fan - this is the worst thing ever. I really liked Klopp and last season, nobody was going to beat Bayern and they had a bad run that went longer than expected. He's still a top manager.

The best I can hope for is that this is just a stepping stone for him and he takes over at a bigger club like Real or Man U.

 

[helpimonfire]

Yep..Deffo the same bloke. I might start calling him Harry.

 

[helpimonfire]

As an Everton and Dortmund fan - this is the worst thing ever. I really liked Klopp and last season, nobody was going to beat Bayern and they had a bad run that went longer than expected. He's still a top manager.

The best I can hope for is that this is just a stepping stone for him and he takes over at a bigger club like Real or Man U.

He has said his dream is to manage Man Utd... Kopites are keeping stum on that though.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Someone will make a killing selling those nerd specs outside the pi

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

He has said his dream is to manage Man Utd... Kopites are keeping stum on that though.

is there a link to him saying that mate ? cos that can go ALL over twitter