This smacks of a marketing ploy. No way Klopp puts his face on it so they got Pep. It’s to connect with the fans. Or some such.
Could be an Interesting read/insight - Pep Lijnders
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I was looking into this as well - NEC’s form did slip once he took over - they dropped out of the automatic promotion spot and then lost to a team in the semi’s that finished well below them in the league.
Not sure it was entirely his fault, but it certainly didn’t quite click.
Took them a few years to get promoted and even then they did it finishing further down the table via playoffs.
I am not going to read this thing, because it's a football book, but I always read lijnders as an eager puppy and not as arrogant.
Yes, their form did slip, but as I say, this was because he was trying to integrate a new philosophy part way through the season. That was probably naive, but he seems to have believed he was being backed for a project, rather than a promoted or bust 6 months gig.
[article]Liverpool secured winger Luis Diaz from Tottenham in January after back and forth discussions.
Assistant boss Pep Lijnders has spoken about the phone call that eventually led to the Colombian choosing the Reds over Spurs.
A deal to Tottenham was all but done with FC Porto, but Liverpool swooped in to get their man at the last minute.
"I was on a skiing trip with my wife Danielle when, during dinner, our sporting director called me: 'You and Jürgen have to speak with Luis Diaz in five minutes. We've just agreed with Porto but Tottenham are all-in as well,'" wrote Lijnders in his new book Intensity: Inside Liverpool FC - Our Identity.
"I joined the call and Jürgen was explaining to Luis how he would fit into our style and that we would help him.
"He said in reference to me joining [the call], 'But you will hear this guy much more often!'
"To which I immediately said, 'But I will explain things more calmly than Sergio [Conceicao, the Porto manager]!' To which Luis laughed.
"I told him: 'We want you desperately and have been pushing for the last one-and-a-half months with our owners and our sporting director, but you know that these kinds of transfers are not easy to accomplish."
He continued on his message to Diaz: "The good thing is you will train with Virgil, Robbo and Trent and they will make you so much stronger.
"Our idea is to create and score; you will have to tear these guys apart each day in training, which will make you better.
"His agent translated Jürgen's message and [sporting director] Julian Ward said, 'These two will make you a better player.'
"I told him there were not many clubs with more history and culture than Porto but Liverpool was one of them and he would feel this."[/article]
Assistant boss Pep Lijnders has spoken about the phone call that eventually led to the Colombian choosing the Reds over Spurs.
A deal to Tottenham was all but done with FC Porto, but Liverpool swooped in to get their man at the last minute.
"I was on a skiing trip with my wife Danielle when, during dinner, our sporting director called me: 'You and Jürgen have to speak with Luis Diaz in five minutes. We've just agreed with Porto but Tottenham are all-in as well,'" wrote Lijnders in his new book Intensity: Inside Liverpool FC - Our Identity.
"I joined the call and Jürgen was explaining to Luis how he would fit into our style and that we would help him.
"He said in reference to me joining [the call], 'But you will hear this guy much more often!'
"To which I immediately said, 'But I will explain things more calmly than Sergio [Conceicao, the Porto manager]!' To which Luis laughed.
"I told him: 'We want you desperately and have been pushing for the last one-and-a-half months with our owners and our sporting director, but you know that these kinds of transfers are not easy to accomplish."
He continued on his message to Diaz: "The good thing is you will train with Virgil, Robbo and Trent and they will make you so much stronger.
"Our idea is to create and score; you will have to tear these guys apart each day in training, which will make you better.
"His agent translated Jürgen's message and [sporting director] Julian Ward said, 'These two will make you a better player.'
"I told him there were not many clubs with more history and culture than Porto but Liverpool was one of them and he would feel this."[/article]
[article]Liverpool assistant manager Pep Lijnders has recalled Jurgen Klopp's words to his players after they missed out on the Premier League title on the final day of last season.
Lijnders writes about that final day in his new book, 'Intensity: Inside Liverpool FC - Our Identity'.
Serialised in the Liverpool Echo, Lijnders wrote: "After the final Premier League game of the season against Wolves, we had come from behind to win the match, but had still lost the title to Manchester City by a point.
"All the families joined us on the pitch directly after the game for the lap of appreciation.
"We had won the match, but missed out on the title to Manchester City and it showed that the best remedy for adversity is family – all the faces changed immediately when we saw our loved ones.
"My heart stopped for a second when I saw a new banner on the Kop: 'WE WIN CUPS'. I could have painted that one myself, I was thinking. A new culture of winning installed in this beautiful club, a new era.
"As I said, I get the feeling that our fans see the support not just as a passion but as their job.
"The best thing that happened on this day is that we won our game. I think we would never have forgiven ourselves if we hadn't.
"The other good thing was the words of Jürgen directly after the game: 'What I learned about life is if you stay on track, when you keep going, you get the reward.
“'Not today, the maximum reward. We would have deserved it as well. But we will get it. It's up to us to keep going and that's what we will do.
“'Next week, next season. What I said so often, the five minutes after the game are more important than the five days leading up to the game.'."[/article]
Lijnders writes about that final day in his new book, 'Intensity: Inside Liverpool FC - Our Identity'.
Serialised in the Liverpool Echo, Lijnders wrote: "After the final Premier League game of the season against Wolves, we had come from behind to win the match, but had still lost the title to Manchester City by a point.
"All the families joined us on the pitch directly after the game for the lap of appreciation.
"We had won the match, but missed out on the title to Manchester City and it showed that the best remedy for adversity is family – all the faces changed immediately when we saw our loved ones.
"My heart stopped for a second when I saw a new banner on the Kop: 'WE WIN CUPS'. I could have painted that one myself, I was thinking. A new culture of winning installed in this beautiful club, a new era.
"As I said, I get the feeling that our fans see the support not just as a passion but as their job.
"The best thing that happened on this day is that we won our game. I think we would never have forgiven ourselves if we hadn't.
"The other good thing was the words of Jürgen directly after the game: 'What I learned about life is if you stay on track, when you keep going, you get the reward.
“'Not today, the maximum reward. We would have deserved it as well. But we will get it. It's up to us to keep going and that's what we will do.
“'Next week, next season. What I said so often, the five minutes after the game are more important than the five days leading up to the game.'."[/article]
I'm afraid I'm less taken with the "We win cups" slogan than Lijnders seems to be. Calling a side "a Cup team" isn't high praise.
I am hoping that he means "we win trophies" which is a little bit higher of an aspiration and more acceptable.
I really hope that he isn't satisfied with just winning the cup competitions though adding a few more big ears to our collection would not be sneezed at.
Hrm, on the other hand, I wanted to make a banner that just said "glorified cup team" and had the treble on it last year.
Fuck everything.
One could argue Bigears is not simply a Cup competition - more of a Cup/league mongrel maybe.
Yea, I'd happily trade the domestic cup double a super cup, world club cup and community shield for just one big ears
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