Jürgen Kop

[Pagnell]

Still trying I see. Keep at it, someone has to bite eventually.

 

[johnnytodd]

Still trying I see. Keep at it, someone has to bite eventually.

In all fairness he would be shocked at the style and calibre of team u have currently....u don't agree?

 

[mente captus]

What i like on Klopp is, he manages a club for 100%, with heart and soul as it would be his favourite team since his childhood

 

[ArmchairDiehard]

Shankly would turn in his grave if clipperty took over.

You clearly didn't see many Dortmund games under his stewardship

 

[johnnytodd]

You clearly didn't see many Dortmund games under his stewardship

i would have been attending my own teams games in all probability......something you may not understand

 

[Blitzballer]

 

[G-Dragon]

Jurgen Klopp as Liverpool manager to be announced tomorrow.

 

[Ablur]

I'm just waiting for this to fall through and end up with Monk or Koeman. It sounds too good to be true, but if he does come I hope he gets more of a say in the transfers. Something is ultimately wrong with the transfer regime currently and it needs to be addressed. He can try a sneaky bid for a few of his old players too where he had a good relationship. Unrealistic, but Rues and Hummels would be great.

I just hope we don't have to see some mind baffling tactics now, such as Clyne in right wing back with Emre Can at centre back being exposed. Also Ings on the left side of midfield...

 

[Stevencc]

Jurgen Klopp as Liverpool manager to be announced tomorrow.

So your ITK source is the BBC, the Times and the Telegraph!

 

[SALTIRE]

 

[G-Dragon]

I'm just waiting for this to fall through and end up with Monk or Koeman. It sounds too good to be true, but if he does come I hope he gets more of a say in the transfers. Something is ultimately wrong with the transfer regime currently and it needs to be addressed. He can try a sneaky bid for a few of his old players too where he had a good relationship. Unrealistic, but Rues and Hummels would be great.

I just hope we don't have to see some mind baffling tactics now, such as Clyne in right wing back with Emre Can at centre back being exposed. Also Ings on the left side of midfield...

Rodgers buying Allen, Borini, Assaidi, Aspas probably had something to do with the owners forming the Committee.

So your ITK source is the BBC, the Times and the Telegraph!

Never claimed this one was from ITK source

 

[Stevencc]

Redknapp (Arry) has called upon Klopp to prove himself by choosing to manage Sunderland.

 

[G-Dragon]

Redknapp (Arry) has called upon Klopp to prove himself by choosing to manage Sunderland.

If Klopp took the Sunderland job how would Arry and his mates like Big Sam and Paul Lambert get a job?!?!

 

[JaseTheVillain]

Last I checked, you don't get into the World Club Championship through winning the Europa League.

 

[JimJams]

Something is ultimately wrong with the transfer regime currently and it needs to be addressed.

It definitely seems that way on the surface. I have said before though that the failure of the players that the committee has brought in could well be pretty much down to Rodgers. Benteke and Firminho stand out as two players where you would raise a real question over their signing, the former because the Liverpool side lack width to provide for the bloke and the latter because his best position in the team appears to already be occupied by Coutinho. However Lovren has looked poor in a Liverpool shirt, but at Southampton he looked a great centre back. Has he just been exposed? Did he just have a wonder season at Southampton? Or is Rodgers just crap at organising/coaching his defenders. Now you can't blame the manager for odd kamikaze shit like he pulled against West Ham, but we never saw anything like that for the Saints. The way I see it is that Saints had a really good defence 2 seasons ago, that defence was made up of Clyne, Lovren, Fonte and Shaw. Half that defence now plays at Liverpool. Are Shaw and Fonte really that much better than the other Liverpool players who fill that gap? Would Liverpool fans concede that Fonte is a better player than Skrtel? I think people can get on board with Shaw being better than Moreno, but to the point that the defensive ability of the entire back line just totally collapses? Similar thing with Sakho who hasn't had Rodgers trust but didn't look a bad defender at PSG but has been left out of the Liverpool side for long spells when things haven't gone right. Emre Can has been completely stifled by Rodgers. He's a midfielder, albeit primarily a defensive one, he can play the ball, he's comfortable with it, yet he's shunted into whatever gap in the back line Rodgers had the least confidence in in that particular week. He's been totally wasted at Liverpool so far, when he should be breaking up and starting attacks in the midfield.
Based on what Lovren looked like before Liverpool would anyone question that signing? No. Sakho? No. Can? No. Do they look like the players you'd have expected them to be based on how they performed before Liverpool? Hell no. Is that the committees fault?

We'll know how much of it was down to the committee and how much was down to Rodgers once Klopp gets his claws into the side. With a new manager some players might actually get a better shot at proving themselves and some players may just up their game to try and stay in contention for a first team place. We all know a new manager can work wonders for a player.

 

[JimJams]

WALL OF TEXT

 

[Whitechapel]

WALL OF TEXT

Could you add a tl;dr version?

 

[JimJams]

Rodgers bad, Committee possibly so.

 

[smat]

I'm just waiting for this to fall through and end up with Monk or Koeman. It sounds too good to be true, but if he does come I hope he gets more of a say in the transfers. Something is ultimately wrong with the transfer regime currently and it needs to be addressed. He can try a sneaky bid for a few of his old players too where he had a good relationship. Unrealistic, but Rues and Hummels would be great.

I just hope we don't have to see some mind baffling tactics now, such as Clyne in right wing back with Emre Can at centre back being exposed. Also Ings on the left side of midfield...

The more I read about it, though, the less Rodgers comes out well of the TC thing. Supposedly Rodgers wanted Premier League experienced players like Benteke, Lallana, Lovren, Ashley Williams and Clint Dempsey, and either didn't want or had no input into the signings of Moreno, Sakho, Firmino etc. If true - god only knows what sort of state your squad would've been in had he had free rein.

A TC/DoF setup isn't in and of itself a bad thing (and is very successful elsewhere), but you need the manager and the rest of the staff to share a coherent vision. It sounds like Rodgers and his TC didn't, but I'm not sure they were to blame.

 

[allouso]

It definitely seems that way on the surface. I have said before though that the failure of the players that the committee has brought in could well be pretty much down to Rodgers. Benteke and Firminho stand out as two players where you would raise a real question over their signing, the former because the Liverpool side lack width to provide for the bloke and the latter because his best position in the team appears to already be occupied by Coutinho. However Lovren has looked poor in a Liverpool shirt, but at Southampton he looked a great centre back. Has he just been exposed? Did he just have a wonder season at Southampton? Or is Rodgers just crap at organising/coaching his defenders. Now you can't blame the manager for odd kamikaze shit like he pulled against West Ham, but we never saw anything like that for the Saints. The way I see it is that Saints had a really good defence 2 seasons ago, that defence was made up of Clyne, Lovren, Fonte and Shaw. Half that defence now plays at Liverpool. Are Shaw and Fonte really that much better than the other Liverpool players who fill that gap? Would Liverpool fans concede that Fonte is a better player than Skrtel? I think people can get on board with Shaw being better than Moreno, but to the point that the defensive ability of the entire back line just totally collapses? Similar thing with Sakho who hasn't had Rodgers trust but didn't look a bad defender at PSG but has been left out of the Liverpool side for long spells when things haven't gone right. Emre Can has been completely stifled by Rodgers. He's a midfielder, albeit primarily a defensive one, he can play the ball, he's comfortable with it, yet he's shunted into whatever gap in the back line Rodgers had the least confidence in in that particular week. He's been totally wasted at Liverpool so far, when he should be breaking up and starting attacks in the midfield.
Based on what Lovren looked like before Liverpool would anyone question that signing? No. Sakho? No. Can? No. Do they look like the players you'd have expected them to be based on how they performed before Liverpool? Hell no. Is that the committees fault?

We'll know how much of it was down to the committee and how much was down to Rodgers once Klopp gets his claws into the side. With a new manager some players might actually get a better shot at proving themselves and some players may just up their game to try and stay in contention for a first team place. We all know a new manager can work wonders for a player.

I don't follow French football much but i remember someone saying that he was quite average at Lyon so that's why they let him go. If that was the case then he was a one season wonder at Southampton really.

He's been beyond awful to be honest, one of the worst defenders i've ever seen in my time as a Liverpool fan. He constantly fucks up, and whilst the same can be said about Skrtel, at least he offers some consistency defensively. Horrible combination though.

 

[Pagnell]

How defensibly minded would you say Klopp is? I've seen his football on plenty of occasions, but not studied it in great detail. Amongst all the offensive play, does he ensure the defence plays it's part or should we partly expect the Liverpool of 13/14, where the attitude was basically "you will score, but we'll score more".

 

[Jamie_SFC]

I don't follow French football much but i remember someone saying that he was quite average at Lyon so that's why they let him go. If that was the case then he was a one season wonder at Southampton really.

He's been beyond awful to be honest, one of the worst defenders i've ever seen in my time as a Liverpool fan. He constantly fucks up, and whilst the same can be said about Skrtel, at least he offers some consistency defensively. Horrible combination though.

We did warn you that his form wasn't all that in the second half of the season for us.

 

[Avatar]

seems very strange to me to blame FSG. They trusted a young and promising british manager, gave him time, gave him 300m pounds, and they backed him. Hard to blame anyone but the manager, that's much more than 90% of clubs in this league.

 

[allouso]

How defensibly minded would you say Klopp is? I've seen his football on plenty of occasions, but not studied it in great detail. Amongst all the offensive play, does he ensure the defence plays it's part or should we partly expect the Liverpool of 13/14, where the attitude was basically "you will score, but we'll score more".

He's sound, the successful Dortmund weren't anything like Liverpool imo. We were extremely gung-ho with our approach, they were far more organized and almost as fun to watch.

My only concern is that his style demands too much of the players and i guess that's why they had so many injury issues. So i wouldn't be surprised if we went through the same thing.

 

[Avatar]

He's sound, the successful Dortmund weren't anything like Liverpool imo. We were extremely gung-ho with our approach, they were far more organized and almost as fun to watch.

My only concern is that his style demands too much of the players and i guess that's why they had so many injury issues. So i wouldn't be surprised if we went through the same thing.

I do wonder about that, no real german managers in the premier league, I wonder if its because of the lack of the midseason break?

 

[allouso]

https://www.facebook.com/101GreatGoalsCom/videos/vb.114682465256092/1219992191391775/?type=2&theater

 

[Pagnell]

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/oct/07/carlo-ancelotti-next-season-return

Ancelotti appears to rule himself out of the running by saying he will definitely return to management, but only after taking a year out. Added pressure on the club to make sure Klopp happens.

 

[mente captus]

How defensibly minded would you say Klopp is? I've seen his football on plenty of occasions, but not studied it in great detail. Amongst all the offensive play, does he ensure the defence plays it's part or should we partly expect the Liverpool of 13/14, where the attitude was basically "you will score, but we'll score more".

he is always playing a defensive football, Dortmund conceded in both championship season 22 and 25 goals, he tries to hit you on a counter-attack.

in Germany we have a word for it. "Umschaltspiel" that means to turn around from playing defensive while the opponent got the ball to a full attacking team when you got the ball in the shortest space of time

 

[Red]

Still trying I see. Keep at it, someone has to bite eventually.

Go on then, I'll do it. Fuck you Todd, you're just jealous.

 

[Pagnell]

Klopp coming to Merseyside will mean at least one more person in Europe will discover there is a club called Everton. Surely a good thing for their long term future.