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Can't watch it then but will look it up on iPlayer later, despite the fact that I despise Lineker.
Hope that snarky bluenose tw@t annoys our Jürgen at some point and gets blasted for it.
Hope that snarky bluenose tw@t annoys our Jürgen at some point and gets blasted for it.
In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
He was great value in the in-depth interview I did with him for The Premier League Show (which you can see on BBC Two at 22:00 BST on Thursday night).
I met Jurgen in his office at Liverpool's Melwood training ground and it was good to get to know him and get an insight into his thinking football-wise, and away from the game too.
Most top-level managers are pretty guarded but Jurgen was not just hugely charismatic when I spoke to him, he was also pretty honest and frank. He spoke quite candidly to me about a lot of things and it was refreshing to meet a manager who is so open like that, especially someone who is 'box office' too.
His man-management skills are very interesting and it was great to get an insight from him into his thinking there, because you can tell he is the kind of guy that gets the best out of people. He also explains his general ethos with his teams - not just the way he likes them to play, but the thinking behind that.
One of the first things he said when he took the Liverpool job was that he had to turn people from doubters into believers - on the pitch and off it - and his personality is a big part of the reason that is happening.
Results have been a bit up and down and performances inconsistent, but I think you can see a progression and gradual morphing as this becomes his team. That takes time for any manager, especially when you play in a different way to the previous incumbent, but I sensed when I was in the area that he has got the Liverpool fans behind him, and that comes across at games too.
From talking to him, I know he understands the history and traditions of the club and respects the achievements of its previous managers. We saw at Borussia Dortmund, where he won two Bundesliga titles and took them to the Champions League final, that he is a terrific coach with a great record. If you put all that together, it is a great combination.
There will always be questions when Liverpool lose - like they did at Burnley on Saturday - and some supporters will always complain, but the general feeling is still that they are going in the right direction under Klopp. I can understand why. He is a very funny man, with a great sense of humour, and clearly very intelligent as well.
Gary Lineker was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
I've already seen a clip where Klopp appears to laugh AT him rather than with him and you can see Lineker grimace a bit as he tries to take it with a smile.
Very disappointing. And a weird thing's happened to Lineker's hands. His producer has obviously told him to be a bit more animated, so he gesticulates with them as if he's in somewhere like Rome, but they look like fake hands. It's quite hypnotic watching them - I expect them either to fall off his wrists with a loud clunk or else grow bigger and bigger, like Kenny Everett's joke hands.
The beeb website was pushing it with a clip of the two of them chatting over a map of the uk and the big eared twat bantering him over not knowing where some small cities were exactly in the uk, prior to coming over.... obviously Gary would be able to pinpoint Bielefeld or such on a map of Germany
Did you watch the same interview? In the one I saw, Klopp mentioned Brexit as one reason why he extended his contract (to show that "we're still Europe"), period. The bit about England at the Euros was a totally separate point.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...p-m-not-saying-world-s-best-m-quite-good.html
Interview with Martin Samuel, similar stuff to BBC interview the other week but still interesting read
Interview with Martin Samuel, similar stuff to BBC interview the other week but still interesting read
Very disappointing. And a weird thing's happened to Lineker's hands. His producer has obviously told him to be a bit more animated, so he gesticulates with them as if he's in somewhere like Rome, but they look like fake hands. It's quite hypnotic watching them - I expect them either to fall off his wrists with a loud clunk or else grow bigger and bigger, like Kenny Everett's joke hands.
He's the right man.
It kinda winds me up that hes seen as this enigmatic genius who everyone wants to talk to and he knows how to handle the press and everyone is like what makes him tick.....
Win football games motherfucker, then crack all the fucking jokes you want. Right now youre the elite manager football genius who got mugged off by Burnley.
Fuck being a character, be a winner.
Win football games motherfucker, then crack all the fucking jokes you want. Right now youre the elite manager football genius who got mugged off by Burnley.
Fuck being a character, be a winner.
Balotelli's agent calls Klopp "piece of shit" in Gazzetta dello Sport interview. Apparently very upset that Klopp didn't give his client a chance to stay at the club despite his "exemplary behaviour."
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spor...otelli-agent-raiola-labels-liverpool-11837594
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spor...otelli-agent-raiola-labels-liverpool-11837594
That's OK. This blubbery oaf can go join Aidy Ward in our recycle bin.
Yup. Mourinho has been panned for it, and rightly so.
Poor man management from klopp
I don't agree. Biased though I certainly am, I don't think the two cases are the same. Schweinsteiger didn't deserve it but Balotelli treated the whole idea of leaving with as much seriousness as he approached his LFC career, turning down offers from the likes of Sampdoria, and incidentally was encouraged all the while by Raiola chatting sh!t about him knowing what he had to do, wanting to prove himself yadda yadda just so his feckin client wouldn't end up signing for a smaller club and damaging the brand. I very much doubt Balotelli would have been consigned to the outer darkness at Melwood if he and his agent hadn't stretched the whole business out the way they did.
Can't comment on Bastian and Mourinho, but I can understand wanting to keep Balotelli away from anything to do with the first team.
His presence would be deleterious in every way
Nice word
Really? Schweinsteiger is a model professional while Balotelli is a disruptive child.
No problem with letting Balotelli stay long clear of the first team.
Schweinsteiger evidently hasn't been a model pro recently. Got distracted by his imminent marriage and missed training to watch her play tennis at various venues.
With Balotelli, Klopp was told in no uncertain terms how he abused any trust shown to him before. Everyone wanted him gone.
With Balotelli, Klopp was told in no uncertain terms how he abused any trust shown to him before. Everyone wanted him gone.
Like delete and serious coming together and deciding to form a new techno-pop duo.
Not if there's no good reason to do so, no, but if it happens as a by-product of other action which the club felt obliged to take, then I'm OK with it.
The two players are incomparable.
Raiola claimed to have put Ballotelli on the straight and narrow, that the player now understood that it was hi last chance to make it, before he joined.
Raiola should be offering a groveling appology to LFC instead of yet again earning a shitload of percentage from Ballotelli's wages.
What do those saying it's bad man management by Klopp expect Klopp to have done?
He needed offloading and he's always been a bad influence with other players.
I think it's fucking great management by Klopp to show how a world renowned player can go from hero to zero due to shit attitude to the youngsters at the club.
Fuck Mario and Raiola.
Raiola should be offering a groveling appology to LFC instead of yet again earning a shitload of percentage from Ballotelli's wages.
What do those saying it's bad man management by Klopp expect Klopp to have done?
He needed offloading and he's always been a bad influence with other players.
I think it's fucking great management by Klopp to show how a world renowned player can go from hero to zero due to shit attitude to the youngsters at the club.
Fuck Mario and Raiola.
Raiola sold all his big clients to Utd. He's got Matuidi who is at PSG and Lukaku.
Seeing as he is a money hungry fuckwit I'm guessing our "handling" of Balotelli will mean fuck all if he could broker a deal to us where he can make some money.
I doubt it means anything other than trying to shift the blame of this disaster away from his client.
Seeing as he is a money hungry fuckwit I'm guessing our "handling" of Balotelli will mean fuck all if he could broker a deal to us where he can make some money.
I doubt it means anything other than trying to shift the blame of this disaster away from his client.
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