catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
In as far as they are willing too, they have backed Klopp. He has a wage bill that is drastically higher than when he came (nearly twice as big) and have allowed him to outspend City in wages. They have also allowed him to go big, and break transfer records on Van Dijk and Alisson, even though in both cases they were uneasy about doing so. As you say, this summer Jota for big money as well as Thiago, with 12 months on a deal, at 29, for 30m, probably earning 300k+ a week. The lad weakens the team.
Thats FSG's part in this and their side of it. And then Klopp, even when they give him 2 CB's doesn't start either, and doesn't even have 1 in the squad. It's almost as if Klopp is trying to prove some bizarre point, but American execs will not be impressed at all.
To give Klopps side, Klopp is the gold dust. For all FSG go on about their great recruitment, and how brilliant Michael Edwards is, nobody felt that was the case before Klopp arrived. They had jut presided over the joke summer, where they did what we did in 2017 with the Suarez money, wasting it on Balotelli, Benteke and Ricky Lambert. The transfer committee was hated and ridiculued and so too was the approach to transfers with data. Most of the players they bought were bad fits, and it took Klopp to arrive to turn it round. In essence he is the magic dust that knits it together.
A bit like Brands and Everton. People will understandably say it's Carlo making the players look better which is true, but in a lot of ways Silva made the playes look much worse. I digress slightly, but there are lots of people I find who ork in and around recruitment, who seem to think they are the starts of the show (see Steve Walsh) but the real magic is with the manager. So to some degree, Klopp must be looking at things and thinking, you were bouncing around half way up the table, having owned the club for 5 years going nowhere when I came.
Thats the dialectic. As with all things, contradictions are reduced when you are doing well, and widened at times of difficulty.
Suffice to say, if Klopp ends up going, I don't think they will appointing another Klopp. They will go for more of a yes man who will do as he's told. Maybe Gerrard, maybe Pep Ljinders.
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