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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"

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Lallana: "Reaction to Klopp's arrival has been a bit over the top"

Bullets in the post. The cult wont like that.

Klopp backtracking from his criticism of the FA treating players like 'horses' wont go down well either. Apparently his press conference this morning was 'funereal'.



Bubble burst.
 

sageyefc said:
Forza pot noodle head.



The other 2 cracked me up aswell, the fat biff and the meff with the glasses that looked like the lad from pheonix night
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Why do you mock me so.

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catcherintherye said:
Ancelotti wouldn't have touched them with a barge pole.

What's becoming clear are 2 things. 1) They are operating a completely flawed "moneyball" plan & 2) Post Rodgers they are not willing to shift form it.

Klopp coming out and defending the committee, defending selling his best players, saying he's not worried about looking for cheaper recruits etc is very clear evidence that he is on board with FSG plan. No top manager would accept a committee made up of computer nerds looking to shoehorn a method used is baseball onto a completely different sport played in another continent selecting cut price players as acceptable.

I kind of dreaded the day they sacked Rodgers. I always thought they'd not only bin him off but also reflect that there are no shortcuts or easy solutions with football which (unlike baseball) is a global game. I thought that reflection may have meant they gave the manager the choice of how to spend 300 million and they might start doing what Benitez did which was signings good players for good money. With a top manager (like Ancelotti) they would be very dangerous with that approach.

United are not the force they were, Chelsea are a farce and Wenger isn't the manager he was. Look back to some of those Benitez teams, with Alonso, Gerrard, Mascherano, Agger, Torries etc I would say they would be the strongest team in the league currently. I was really worried that when Rodgers went we'd see a return to that.

As it is they are now linked with an 18 year old from Porto for 35 million. It is an utter farce. Two games is a short time to judge someone but after two games I knew that Martinez grasped what was required to make a winning/creative team. More importantly than just his obsession with pressing, Klopps press conference about the broad outlook of the club don't worry me one bit. He is going to enable FSG to keep living out their fantasy of moneyball.

This Liverpool, under this manager and their ownership are going to get nowhere near winning the top trophies. I could see them going backwards as Klopp could end up losing the plot with these.
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It is a systemic problem. It's not a way of operating that's had success in the PL. The mindset here is for one person who controls all aspects of the playing side of the club. Even at a huge organisation like United that's been true - despite the undoubted power CEO's like Kenyon and Gill had. A manager has to be seen as the guvnor over here by players and supporters or they're not fully respected. That's our culture and I dont see it changing anytime soon. When a bump in the road arrives any sense that the manager isn't the architect of their own destiny increases doubts amongst players/supporters that they can hack it. It's a very corrosive environment for managers.

My biggest doubt about Klopp remains, however, that his type of game is not all that in an English setting. The game in this country has never been short of perspiration. Doing what Klopp is asking Liverpool players to do, effort wise, is minimum over here. It's what we've always been good at. Playing the game at pace and lots of energy is our game. He may spend, and get in good finishers especially, and climb the table a bit. Personally though I dont see him having the savvy to make Liverpool a title challenging team. His game is way too open. They'll be punished repeatedy. And it'll take years to assemble a squad anywhere near the quality of the one he had at Dortmund.
 


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