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Alisson & Salah disagree.
Let me rephrase my statement with the correct punctuation
"Klopp doesn't buy from the Italian league, since Pep became his number 1. We only look at Prem, Dutch, Portuguese, and German league for players now."
How about we give Q a chance
I think technically Lijnders was at the club when both were signed - think he came back about a month before Alisson was signed.
So you’re probably still wrong. 😀
We signed Alisson in 2018, when Buvac would have had influence. 2019 onwards when Pep became #1, its been Portuguese, dutch, prem and Bundesliga players since
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What happened to Zeljko Buvac? The ex-Liverpool assistant who mysteriously left
- June 23, 2022
- Jack Sear
He was famously nicknamed ‘The Brain’ by the Liverpool manager.
So when Buvac left the club with no real explanation two days before the Champions League semi-final against Roma four years ago, there was an understandable concern as to how this could affect Klopp and his team.
Fortunately for Liverpool, Buvac’s exit was followed up by great success on the pitch, with the Reds lifting Champions League, UEFA Super Cup, Club World Cup and Premier League trophies in the two years that were to come.
But why did Klopp’s former right-hand man really leave and where is he now?
Who is Zeljko Buvac?
Born in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Buvac had a 13-year career as a player, an attacking midfielder who started in the Yugoslav First League and moved across to Germany with Rot-Weiss Erfurt in 1991.
A year later he joined Mainz 05, where he’d first meet Klopp, before a spell with Neukirchen in 1998.
It was there that, after hanging up his boots, he was immediately given the opportunity to take charge of the club as manager.
He was there for three years, before first joining Klopp as assistant at Mainz in 2001.
The pair went on to achieve great success at the club, before moving on to Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool later in their careers.
Peter Krawietz, who is still alongside Klopp as Liverpool’s assistant manager, also worked closely with Buvac.
How long did he work with Klopp?
In total, the pair worked alongside each other for 17 years.
With Mainz, they achieved promotion to the Bundesliga in 2003/04, as well as European qualification several years later.
In 2008, Klopp and Buvac moved on to Dortmund, with the Bosnian helping the side on their way to two Bundesliga titles, one DFB-Pokal, two DFL-Supercups and a Champions League final in 2013.
When Liverpool came calling in 2015, Klopp ensured he was able to bring both Buvac and Krawietz with him.
Buvac spent nearly three years as Klopp’s assistant at Anfield, even filling in during the manager’s illness for the 2-2 draw with Sunderland in 2016, before an unexpected departure 48 hours before the clash with Roma in April 2018.
Why did he leave?
Liverpool initially cited ‘personal reasons’, with his absence confirmed for the remainder of that campaign, but it soon became clear that Buvac would not return.
In 2019, it was claimed that he took issue with the increasing role of Pepijn Lijnders on his return from NEC Nijmegen, with the Dutchman eventually appointed as assistant manager following Buvac’s exit.
One year later, in an interview with Russian journalist Nobel Arustamyan, Buvac revealed he did not congratulate Klopp after Liverpool’s historic league title win in 2020, which would suggest there was a breakdown in the relationship between the pair.
Klopp has never touched on the subject, but name-checked Buvac when discussing his coaching staff in an interview with BT Sport earlier this year.
“I worked together for a long time with Zeljko Buvac, who was a more experienced coach than I was when we started because he was older and worked already a little bit,” Klopp said.
“We worked very close for a long time together and then it didn’t work out anymore and we brought in Lijnders and Vitor [Matos] now. They are like energisers, they are the next generation.”
Why was he nicknamed ‘The Brain?’
Klopp famously nicknamed Buvac his “brains” and Krawietz his “eye” during their time together at Dortmund.
This was due to Buvac’s specialism in tactics and training, while Krawietz focuses on scouting and analytics.
Buvac in particular had a very close relationship with Klopp, which was why his sudden Liverpool departure came as such a surprise in 2018.
In 2013, former Liverpool midfielder Nuri Sahin – a key player under the pair at Dortmund – said Buvac “was basically Klopp’s twin.”
The pair saw the game through similar eyes, and there’s no doubt Buvac played a key part in Klopp’s success up until the split.
Where is he now?
After a break from the game lasting nearly two years, Buvac took up a new job as Dynamo Moscow’s sporting director in February 2020.
Buvac is responsible for their transfer strategy and is seemingly enjoying the role, after penning a new contract until 2024 at the end of last year.
You rarely hear anything from Buvac, but his admission in 2020 that “he was practically a manager for 17 years,” would suggest he is relieved to be away from the training pitch for the time being.
“I did the coaching job, with the exception of the interviews,” he said in his interview with Arustamyan.
“It felt like I’ve been the manager for all those 17 years. I had all the functions and tried to influence my team as much as I could to help them succeed, but I didn’t need that kind of attention.”
A not-so-subtle dig at Klopp, perhaps?
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€80m release clause. Would do it if we sold Konate, as I don't trust him to stay fit
https://dailycannon.com/2023/07/arsenal-interest-ousmane-diomande/
Ajax signed 3 Croats this summer in Sutalo, Sosa and Medic.
Baturina and Sucic are the next best prospects with the latter nailed on to join Leipzig in the neat future.
I can live with that. Every Italian player we have signed has been rubbish, and most Italian players that other English clubs have signed have been rubbish too.
So was Fab signed before or after Pep became number 1?
What about Melo?
Or Kostas?
Taki?
Baj?
Ali????????
Fabs signing was decided before Pep became #1.
Arthur Melo was a recruitment team signing. Just like Kabak and Davies
Kostas - was signed in 2020 but played in dutch league between 2017-2018
Taki - played for RB Salzberg, which is practically a German club
Baj - Was a youth team academy signing
Ali - was signed before Pep's influence
I posted an article above which states one of the reason Buvac left was the influence Pep had in the team.
Ok, but we still signed all these players whilst Pep was at the club....so he's not the decider. We don't need to go into this massive frenzy over what influence Pep has.
Yes, but since he was appointed as #1, that's been the strategy.
If Salah goes Gonclaves will be talked about heavily by the press. Pep won't allow Klopp to get players out of those leagues (Italian, French, Belgium, Spanish etc)
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James Tarkowski would be a good buy as CB
I have liked him for a long time and although he is an Everton player he has proven himself as a cb and chipped in with agoal or two from set pieces
I have liked him for a long time and although he is an Everton player he has proven himself as a cb and chipped in with agoal or two from set pieces
Liverpool were willing to swap Uruguay striker Darwin Nunez, 24, for Portugal winger Joao Felix this summer but the 23-year-old snubbed the Reds, Manchester United and Aston Villa to force through a loan move to Barcelona from La Liga rivals Atletico Madrid
https://www.mundodeportivo.com/futb...joao-felix-hizo-sacrificios-llegar-barca.html
If there is any truth to this ten it is not hard to set why Darwin seems to be low in confidence at times
https://www.mundodeportivo.com/futb...joao-felix-hizo-sacrificios-llegar-barca.html
If there is any truth to this ten it is not hard to set why Darwin seems to be low in confidence at times
Ffs. This has been covered. It's just media gossip.
Zero truth to it.
AND it's in the wrong fucking thread
what is this post? do the italics indicate sarcasm or that you typed it with your head wand?
He’s just a shit wind up merchant that’s bored.
Again - a linesman assaults Robertson, makes a low key apology & its all brushed under the carpet. Van Dijk lets his emotions get the better of him in a tense moment, apologises almost immediately to the officials and is handed a 1 match ban.
Where the fuck is the consistency?
I hate most people, but I hate those in authority even more.
Where the fuck is the consistency?
I hate most people, but I hate those in authority even more.
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