Could be an Interesting read/insight - Pep Lijnders
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Great.
Pep's (the other one) surely gonna be the first person to buy a copy now.
Might as well just rename the book to 'How to beat Liverpool' instead.
Pep's (the other one) surely gonna be the first person to buy a copy now.
Might as well just rename the book to 'How to beat Liverpool' instead.
While the content of this may be interesting, you do feel its best to write and release things like this later on, like when he and Klopp have left the club.
Pretty sure he would have asked for Klopp's and clubs consent to do the book.
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It seems a bit weird on the face of it but it's not like any of this stuff is really a secret anyways.
They all attend the same conferences, deal with the same tech providers, coaches come and go etc.
The likes of City had cameras following them round for a year for shitty Amazon documentaries.
They all attend the same conferences, deal with the same tech providers, coaches come and go etc.
The likes of City had cameras following them round for a year for shitty Amazon documentaries.
If his press conferences are any indication, his editor earned their money.
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I think the plan is definitely to pass the baton onto him when Klopp says he's had enough. And that might work. I like him, and he's clearly an important cog in the management team.
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I really hope not. It might work, but I fear it's more likely not to. In addition to what Rurik rightly says, Lijnders bombed in his first managerial job back home in Holland before we fetched him back. Even if he could go on to become a decent manager eventually (and it's a big "if" - football history is littered with the corpses of coaches who failed when they took the step up to management) IMHO he'll not be even close to ready for the Liverpool job when Kloppo leaves.
As if this man reads anything that isn't written by himself.
Anyway, he'll be too busy talking himself up to clock anyone.
In that case his managerial tenure would be even shorter than I'm concerned it might be anyway.
I think he'd be a good successor for two reasons
1) unlikely, but he's dead good and everything carries on
2) likely he's not as good as klopp, but who on earth is? Most managers would be terrified of coming here after what klopp has done. But if pep gets 18 months and we're slipping away but still have a great squad, then whoever is the rising star in footy management could be recruited without all that panic about continuation or a bad start or whatever.
1) unlikely, but he's dead good and everything carries on
2) likely he's not as good as klopp, but who on earth is? Most managers would be terrified of coming here after what klopp has done. But if pep gets 18 months and we're slipping away but still have a great squad, then whoever is the rising star in footy management could be recruited without all that panic about continuation or a bad start or whatever.
If we feel it’s possible Stevie G could ever be the one, maybe Lijnders could be a great help there too to assist, he would have learnt a thing or two from Klopp during his time with him surely .
thankfully we have a little more time.. 🙂 but someone already in the camp ie Lijnders I don’t feel can be totally ruled out from being involved Somehow ..
no one will be good enough in my eyes 😀 but we will need someone
thankfully we have a little more time.. 🙂 but someone already in the camp ie Lijnders I don’t feel can be totally ruled out from being involved Somehow ..
no one will be good enough in my eyes 😀 but we will need someone
I think it is an overstatement to say Ljinders bombed. He finished third in the league and was unbeaten at home the entire time of his period in charge. He lost a game in the play offs which would have had his team promoted. It's clear he didn't have time in 6 months to impose his philosophy, which is very much the same counter-pressing philosophy of Klopp. Apparently, his team, already several months into a season in which they played a different way, didn't adapt to the changes as well as they might have. This was his first ever role as number 1, and I don't accept he made a hash of it. New managers need to learn their trade.
I agree, the game is littered with great number twos who didn't translate, but some of the best exceptions happened right here.
I guess it depends on how the powers that be define failure in a given situation. The club seem to have felt he deserved enough of the blame to carry the can for it and, while it may be that they rushed to judgment prematurely, at the very least it isn't an encouraging precedent. One or two exceptions at LFC did turn out very successfully, it's true, but equally many didn't and in this case it's not a chance I'd be keen to take.
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