He can afford a bloody live in nanny to deal with the little shits.
Dynamic duo: Henderson & Fabinho
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Yeah, was just a minor point. If anything you'd expect more of a drop off in a player like Fernandinho rather than Fabinho.
He hasn't got over Bolosonaro getting kicked out
I wanna see the form of all the Brazilian players, Lula v Bolsonaro but Alisson is definitely bucking the trend
inshallah
Inshallah mark my fucking words.
See - part of me hates stats like this - there’s a bit of correlation Vs causation with sone baseline figures in there.
What I interpret is - Arsenal have greatly improved from being shit and we’ve tanked from being amazing, while City have maintained.
City are flat on a high level - Arsenal & Liverpool are widely variable.
if you apply history - those trends will be reversed next season.
I said Fabs will be back after the WC, and he hasn't. There's no reinforcement to come until Melo returns, so Klopp has to change it up, and start focusing on having more bodies in MF
So basically no reinforcements?
That's true, actually, I noticed that. Maybe the club should have paid attention as well.
He really has become a miserable bastard
Where's the 2015 version of Klopp that would light up a room by his mere presence. We need that version back.
Where's the 2015 version of Klopp that would light up a room by his mere presence. We need that version back.
Klopp has always hated press conferences, and has been disdainful, as he rightly should be, of the sports press.
He knows that their job is to make stupid clickbait headlines, and to focus on individual players. There's no interesting discussion of any tactics, no nuanced understanding of anything.
So he has to play a game where he responds to questions without writing a headline, but he must also be charming to do this, but he must also answer the same questions again and again. It's a pointless exercise.
Every human being in the world would be better at doing this if they are winning. We are not. Klopp isn't losing "it," he's losing games.
The fact that you see that press conference and say he's losing it, is precisely why he doesn't want to bounce from player to player either scapegoating or talking about form.
He knows that their job is to make stupid clickbait headlines, and to focus on individual players. There's no interesting discussion of any tactics, no nuanced understanding of anything.
So he has to play a game where he responds to questions without writing a headline, but he must also be charming to do this, but he must also answer the same questions again and again. It's a pointless exercise.
Every human being in the world would be better at doing this if they are winning. We are not. Klopp isn't losing "it," he's losing games.
The fact that you see that press conference and say he's losing it, is precisely why he doesn't want to bounce from player to player either scapegoating or talking about form.
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I guess it's difficult to be all smiles and jokes when your team is getting thrashed week in, week out.
He's trying to protect his players and the club at the moment but just has to be mindful that once the media here make you out to be a salty prick, it's kinda hard to shake that tag off.
To be honest, I didn't watch the clip because it has become quite tedious to watch him lately and I roughly know what he said based on the headlines. Whether he meant it or not, with our run of results, most people who are not associated with the club will read the headlines - "Jurgen Klopp was not a happy man as he was questioned about Jordan Henderson's place at Liverpool", and infer he is losing it. That's just the reality of it.
He could have played it better, brush them off with a non answer, and get on his way. Instead, he is exactly giving them what he hates; fuel to write about him with his passive aggressive responses.
Is this the beginning of the end?
This forum was full of praise for how both Brendan & Kenny approached press conferences when they first started, but both ended up being complained about towards the latter half of their tenures. Maybe the SCM reaction to manager's press conference styles is the harbinger of doom to come.
This forum was full of praise for how both Brendan & Kenny approached press conferences when they first started, but both ended up being complained about towards the latter half of their tenures. Maybe the SCM reaction to manager's press conference styles is the harbinger of doom to come.
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Nah. He’s got far too much credit in the bank. He’s spending it like, but he still has a lot left.
Yep, if it's Klopp you're referring to.
Winning the CL bought Rafa 4 years without winning shit. We can at least give the guy who brought us the first league title in almost 30 years two seasons
Two seasons. He gets way more than that from me. He gets to take as long as he wants to fix this issue.
I wasn't advocating unrest against Klopp, I was pointing out the inevitable cycle of SCM attitude to manager's press conferences, from "this is a breath of fresh air" at the start of the reign to "he is an embarrassment and would be better off saying nothing" towards the end.
Very striking with Kenny as he treated all journalists with contempt, which everyone loved to begin with, but it turned into a stick to beat him with over time.
Very striking with Kenny as he treated all journalists with contempt, which everyone loved to begin with, but it turned into a stick to beat him with over time.
I've read some stinging criticism of Henderson on this goal, but on rewatch I'm not sure it's such a clear mistake – he gambled trying to prevent a one-two with Benzema, unfortunately at that point Gomez and Trent were too far away from Vinicius and too passive to challenge him. Just momentary miscommunication among our defenders and of course great execution on part of Vinicius.
On the other hand... If I'm Klopp re-watching this match, I'm absolutely sickened by this episode. Like, literally physically sick to look at Fabinho. Trent's throw-in is aimed precisely at him, Modric is 10 meters away in his full view, his teammates have no doubt that we're safely in possession and are already thinking how to position themselves for the next attack. All of that was predicated on our senior DM making the most basic of efforts to receive the ball, literally taking 2 small steps - instead he couldn't have made a more feeble attempt to stretch for the ball if he was bound to a wheelchair. After that he made no attempt to foul Modric and no attempt to track back and correct his mistake. (Also note that Modric probably saw something earlier in Fabinho’s play that made him make that gamble - he predicted the lazy stretch and was immediately rushing out not to press, but to steal the ball.)
Fabinho looked so good in the first half, did many things right. But this... is inexcusable for a professional footballer and a senior player. Not just the mistake itself, but the lack of reaction, lack of desire in a kind of game and game situation where this simply cannot be tolerated. Fabinho may have ended his Liverpool career with this play.
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Imagine HAVING to rewatch these goals all season.
Poor bastard.
Poor bastard.
Could be worse - he could have to sift through Donnervan’s greatest hits posts and make sense of them.
Modric is definitely not 37.
You and I would also look sprightly next to a static object.
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