God I fucking hate this Klopp fucker. He's full of shit
Jurgen Klopp
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As is said, he is the messiah!
Only if you don't count all the goals we concede when he plays
You'd buy some root vegetables? 😉 X
Jurgen Klopp set to seal Liverpool manager deal this week, sources say
Liverpool plan to hire former Borussia Dortmund manager Jurgen Klopp by the end of the week, sources confirmed to ESPN FC.
Klopp, who left Borussia Dortmund in May to take a break from football, is the Reds' first choice to replace Brendan Rodgers, sources have said.
Multiple media reports on Monday night said Klopp is interested in leading Liverpool, with only compensation negotiations still to come, and sources confirmed to ESPN FC that the club expects the 48-year-old to sign a three-year contract as early as Friday.
The BBC reported that talks with Klopp's representatives are "progressing well," while the Telegraph said remaining negotiations are a formality.
According to the Guardian, Fenway Sports Group president Mike Gordon is leading the negotiations for Liverpool and is "increasingly confident" Klopp will sign on quickly.
Klopp took over a mid-table Dortmund side in 2008 and led them to two Bundesliga titles and a Champions League final during his seven years with the club.
Rodgers was sacked on Sunday, with Liverpool lying 10th in the Premier League after a 1-1 draw with neighbours Everton at Goodison Park.
Hiring Klopp by Friday would allow him a week to prepare for Liverpool's next match, away to Tottenham on Oct. 17.
Ian Ayre, the Reds' chief executive, is working closely with American owners Fenway Sports Group to get a top-class manager in place quickly.
Jurgen Klopp is currently available after leaving Borussia Dortmund in May.
Former Liverpool striker Michael Owen said he believes a hungry Klopp would "be the best fit" to replace Rodgers at the Anfield helm.
"If indeed these are the two main men [Ancelotti and Klopp], I would think that Klopp is the better fit for Liverpool at this time," Owen told Sportlobster. "I think that a younger and potentially hungrier manager in Jurgen Klopp would be the best fit for Liverpool in their current predicament."
Former defender Mark Lawrenson also backed Klopp to take the reigns as he wrote in his BBC Sport column: "Whoever it is will have to buy into the mindset of the American owners -- they want success, but their model is to try to get that by signing younger players they can train up and, sometimes, sell on.
"Jurgen Klopp is the favourite to get the job and he would fit the bill. At Borussia Dortmund he built a team that were in your face, with good players that he was making better, but he also knew he would have to sell one or even two every year."
ESPN FC correspondent Mike Whalley contributed to this report.
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Oh study the premier league regulations!!!
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What impresses me is the way he handled last season when everything failed for Dortmund. He kept his head cool, acted normal and worked on with what he believes in....
A manager sticking tightly to his beliefs can be a two-edged sword though. Over recent years too many Liverpool managers - including Rodgers - have ultimately fallen by the wayside because they couldn't or wouldn't adapt sufficiently when things began to go wrong.
Rodgers could change system 3 times in a game and doesnt know if he should defenders with 3, 4 or 5 defenders. He had a dream of us keeping the ball 60%+ of the time and that would efficient win us games but he had not clue on what it takes to win the ball in the first phase. I have no idea what his 180 Page Presentation contain, but I do know that after the first Five games this season half his defence set in pre season was benched. Please stop comparing this light weighter to a proven winner who constantly were reaching CL semis.
Yes. The pattern usually is: in the first season, managing a squad that's still associated with the previous regime, people note how 'refreshing' it is that the new man is so quick to change things - early substitutions, quick tactical changes in response to problems during games, etc (I think this is partly because the manager is trying things out but also - and it's nearly always overlooked - because it's a veiled critique of the previous manager - 'Look what a shower I've inherited! It's not my fault - I'm trying everything here!'). Then in the second season it all settles down, the manager has more of his own players in, players whose ability he's vouched for, and more of his own style of play, and there's a confidence there. Then a season or two after that, it's often the case that the quick changes are gone - because now they'd seem like a self-critique, an admission of a mistake - and the style of play is kept on stubbornly because, again, it's the manager's vision, with probably a succession of players being rearranged for not following instructions well enough ('The conception is fine, it's just the execution that's flawed').
Brendan, once the dust settles, will probably come to seem a fascinating case study, because - although it's hard to be cool-headed about it at this stage - he seemed to be too stubborn AND too pragmatic by the end. I don't think I've seen any LFC manager quite like him in this sense. To his credit, he was never as obdurate as either Ged or Rafa became in their final couple of years. Brendan, if anything, got TOO flexible, whilst clinging to the belief he was still doggedly pursuing his singular vision. If he'd been a drawing he would have rubbed himself out so many times there would only have been a smudge.
It's not a wayward comparison, Rafa and Houllier were there own worst enemies, they were both stubborn and it's what cost them their jobs with us, regardless of respective histories. The point still stands.
Please stop taking every opportunity you can to label Rodgers an amateur, because it's really, really fucking tedious and bitter. He played in a more competitive league than both the aforementioned managers and got closer than either of them did to winning the league and in a shorter space of time. And can we quit with this utter bullshit about him changing system several times in a game? There were only a few games where he actually did it. If anything, his inability in the latter half of his Liverpool career to try an alternative when things were clearly going wrong during a game, cost us. You're making shit up to tarnish his contribution even more than your agenda has clearly set out to do with him from the word go. It's pathetic.
Really liked that bit at the end.
Rodgers win % and the makings of a talented squad left behind were good points balanced by a lack of direction and tactical acumen. His reign wasn't a total loss and is a good starting point for a better manager. I'm hopeful rather than expectant of Klopp. I don't think the club have too many 'last chances' left to get this right. New billionaire owners excepted.
I know he's not the new manager yet, but I couldn't help get a little excited when I watched these clips of Dortmund under Klopp. Some lovely examples of high energy pressing, wicked first touch and one touch passing, swift attacks and clinical finishing. Sadly i think we only half about two and half players with the skill to carry this out, but who knows.
They won't include Reus AND Hummels, just Reus.
Slightly related to this point though, I'm excited to see how he'll nurture Can, he must have seen a lot of him when he was playing at Leverkusen, and I reckon Can must have a lot of respect for the man.
Does anyone NOT think he'll look at the team and think he'll have to rebuild the spine? Keeper - almost certainly gone. Centre backs - I have no real idea what he'll think about Sakho, Gomez he'll probably think needs experience and Sktrel is not a long term choice, so presumably one or two changes there. Centre midfield - it'll be intriguing how he interacts with Can, but he'll surely want a truly dominant, commanding CM. Studge is the one positive, but, again, I don't know enough about Klopp to think he'll like or dislike Benteke. So personally I can't see more than half of this team surviving for long, but it will be fascinating to see how Klopp uses what he's inherited this season - that will provide a real insight into the man as a manager.
I dont give Rodgers that the league is more competitive. PL was more competitive back then with frequently seeing 2-3 PL teams in CL semis. Even we competed on that level for a period. Under Rodgers we can hardly compete with Basel and Sion so it might be he just established a new truth that some People will refer to and use for defending him what ever is said.
Rodgers is not a amateur, but he's clearly not up to reproducing success even when it was right under his nose.
I really hope he gives a chance to some of our "exiled" players mainly Illori, Markovic and Texeira.
If Klopp is looking to sign a new keeper, well Timo Horn might be his guy.
A new center back, well look no further than Süle. A strong tall defensive organiser. A Hyypia type if you will.
Midfield? Sooo...many options.
Attack, not so many options.
If Klopp is looking to sign a new keeper, well Timo Horn might be his guy.
A new center back, well look no further than Süle. A strong tall defensive organiser. A Hyypia type if you will.
Midfield? Sooo...many options.
Attack, not so many options.
Ged and Rafa became their own worst enemies after winning a cabinet full of trophies. Rodgers did it by having a midlife crisis, and becoming so arrogant based on fuck all that he left work at 4pm everyday and wasn't seen at the academy for 2 years. No comparison.
Didn't he try and sign Benteke at one point, or have I imagined that?
But yes, you're exactly right, we're missing that completely. We lack a dominant figure in goal, each of our centre backs would look immeasurably better with a leader as a partner, and we have no-one in midfield who can dominate the game. We don't really have any players you would obviously start to build a team around.
This is only thing I'm gonna say on the matter.
Rodgers could keep his main focus on the league, after all his objective was to get us a CL spot. Rafa and Houllier had to fight on three fronts more often than not.
While playing Real Madrid on a Wednesday, we possibly had Man U on a Saturday.
So finishing 2nd while competing in Europe is in my opinion a bigger achievement.
However, Rodgers was closest to getting us a league title.
I wouldn't necessarily say it was a more competitive league. Arsenal, United and Chelsea were all better teams back then then they were in Rodger's tenure.
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