Jürgen Klopp - New Liverpool Manager

As a life long Liverpool fan this fills my heart with warmth.

For me the most entertaining manager in the world. Top guy. Would run until it hurt if I were to play for him. Liverpool are lucky to have him

Valkyrja wrote:For me the most entertaining manager in the world. Top guy. Would run until it hurt if I were to play for him. Liverpool are lucky to have him

No way. All the 500 meters?!

Klopp has an underdog spirit, I couldn't see him really to go in a club who wins his leagues in... October. He is for the real challenges, probably even a Manchester City hasn't that romanticism , fascination who he needs to feed . Probably unexpected , but beautiful marriage.

futbol wrote:

Valkyrja wrote:For me the most entertaining manager in the world. Top guy. Would run until it hurt if I were to play for him. Liverpool are lucky to have him

No way. All the 500 meters?!

Most probably less than that.

I envy Pool tbh, wish Klopp all the best

Valkyrja wrote:

futbol wrote:

Valkyrja wrote:For me the most entertaining manager in the world. Top guy. Would run until it hurt if I were to play for him. Liverpool are lucky to have him

No way. All the 500 meters?!

Most probably less than that.

Firenze wrote:ridiculously early days but does anyone want to hazard a guess at how they think Pool will line up under Klopp

because why not

With our current squad?


Assuming he tries to replicate what he did at Dortmund. Lallana being the Reus and Moreno being the Kuba (so just swapped sides). That's also taking fitness into account. When fully healthy Henderson would be in midfield, Sturridge would take Lallana's spot (with Benteke up top) and Lovren would replace Skrtel.

That said almost certainly there will be a few changes. I don't expect Skrtel or Mignolet to last very long, amongst others.

You're going too overboard with this. I would be really surprised if he plays Moreno as a winger.

I said it before, he isn't going to pigeonhole Liverpool players into his Dortmund team, and if he does, he is an idiot.

Lallana

I can't think of a single Anti-Klopp player other than him.

In 2010-11 season, Klopp played Lewa behind Barrios at times, I wonder if he'd consider it here with DS and Benteke, but then again both Cou and Firmino are better at 10.

Really intrigued to see how he approaches it. Some very difficult fixtures to begin with though as well....hope we get the bounce and come off of them still in good shape and then things can get real juicy

^ Lallana has a massive work rate and presses a lot. He could work.

His consistency on the ball is questionable for Klopp's demands, though. Always liked him but I still can't believe we splashed 25m on him.

End of the day though it just depends on the patterns / system Klopp implements. We had no structure going forward or in defence so majority of the players from my POV have a fresh start to show what they can offer Liverpool.

Firenze wrote:ridiculously early days but does anyone want to hazard a guess at how they think Pool will line up under Klopp

because why not

Injuries aside.... I'll give it a go.


Something like that imo.

Mignolet is a great stopper and a better keeper than Weidenfellow, but his ability on the ball is questionable. This'll also be the first time he'll play with a high defence line but he was really good at one on one situations in the passed so he could work. Remains a question mark imo.

Klopp likes attacking full backs. Clyne and Moreno / Enrique offer him that. Questions over Moreno's lack of defensive straits and Enrique's fitness, but left full back looks weak.

Sakho should start and I feel he'll go onto the next level. Was massively misused at Liverpool, just glad we got rid of Rodgers before Brendan got rid of him. Defence should be built around him. Beast.

As much as I'd like Skrtel to stay as his one of the few that knows what it means to play for Liverpool and offer that wee bit of experience he is very very mistake prone in a high line. Lovren likes to play a high line but he's just stupid. If Klopp can get a defensive coach in and show Lovren how to defend he might be of use as a back up / 3rd defender. I expect someone like Subotic to come in to partner Sakho. Ilori might be one of the few young defenders to actually have a proper chance at Liverpool. (Wilson, Coates, Robison, Wisdom, how many others were deemed the next big thing? Think Andre has it in him to be a decent squad player for us, though. )

Lucas is our best midfielder. Should play as an anchor. Hopefully regains that form he had a few years ago. Has been unlucky with injuries in the passed, and was played very stupidly (in a duo with Gerrard, as a central midfielder, as a box-to-box etc just plain stupid) so can see him finding some form and establishing himself as one of the best again. I'm a beleivaaaaaaaaa

Henderson box to box. Can / Milner back up. In an ideal world we find a buyer for Milner. Quality player but not the right fit imo.

Coutinho and Firminho should exchange together and stay very close to each other. Should link the midfield to attack aswell as playmake. Need to add goals to their name, though.

Sturridge to have a free role up top behind Benteke leading the line. Considering Daniel son is always injured, can see Firminho playing that free role with Lallana/need a new attacking midfielder taking his spot.

Klopp: “I believe in a philosophy that is very emotional, very fast and very strong. My teams must play at full throttle.”

Philosophy


Full interview here. Great read

http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/first-team/195434-klopp-i-m-excited-by-the-lfc-challenge

For me the most boring this of modern football is that all the best players/coaches etc go on the usual 3-4 clubs .. Real,PSG,Barca,Bayern ... I miss the old good days when Batistuta played for the Fiorentina..
so I don't get who feels disappointment for this transfer .I am a fan of this transfer, it's a good thing for the football when a great player/coach wants to take a challenge, , instead of having everything spoon-fed, choosing to not go  into the usual clubs but trying  to build something of  great on  other great clubs but impoverished now . It is a good thing for the football if clubs as Liverpool, Milan,Inter etc come back to be great strenghts.   Personally who chooses to go the other way   has my full support.

I suddenly envy pool...

futbol wrote:As a life long Liverpool fan this fills my heart with warmth.

Robespierre wrote:For me the most boring this of modern football is that all the best players/coaches etc go on the usual 3-4 clubs .. Real,PSG,Barca,Bayern ... I miss the old good days when Batistuta played for the Fiorentina..
so I don't get who feels disappointment for this transfer .I am a fan of this transfer, it's a good thing for the football when a great player/coach wants to take a challenge, , instead of having everything spoon-fed, choosing to not go  into the usual clubs but trying  to build something of  great on  other great clubs but impoverished now . It is a good thing for the football if clubs as Liverpool, Milan,Inter etc come back to be great strenghts.   Personally who chooses to go the other way   has my full support.

Took the words from my mouth. I was going to make a thread about this

Kloppo took the first jibe at Mourinho in the presser - he said "I'm the normal one" XD

Someone pls post the full press conference video.

rwo power wrote:Kloppo took the first jibe at Mourinho in the presser - he said "I'm the normal one" XD

FFS. My loyalty to Arsenal has never been tested so much.

It's really interesting and nice to watch his first interview on LFC TV if you have the subscription. Obviously most of the things that he's going to say are positive, but he just seems very genuine in what he is saying it's not measured or calculated and it doesn't seem scripted.

A few notes from it...

- One of the best moments of his life
- He always thought about working in England as a manager for the culture around football there, and Liverpool was his first choice
- When asked if it was an easy decision he starts off saying it wasn't that hard, but that he needed the 4 months off that he took after the hard last year in Dortmund because he's been managing for 15 years straight and he needed to relax and get a fresh perspective
- Anfield is the most special stadium he's been to to him
- He loves football and its an amazing game because of the fans, so its very important to him to be connected to the fans, and its his job as a manager to help people forget their problems and enjoy what they are seeing
- He doesn't think that he has to "adapt" to English football...it's only football, everybody plays the same game they all have the same rules and he's seen lots of English teams play and he's played against them
- He thinks it's important to play the game from the heart and the head and he thinks it's very important for it to be easy for the players to understand what you want from them
- Considers the job the most interesting one in the world right now because of the expectations but nobody seems satisfied
- He believes in the potential of the team, he doesn't want Ronaldo or Messi...he wants the guys that are on the team
- Believes in building his team and the way he wants to play the most important thing first is being able to play defence, your team can be most confident in play if they are not worried about every attacking move of the opposition becoming a goal (though he admires teams that play possession based)
- Klopp is fine with the way the transfer committee is set up because he has first and last say, doesn't want to keep players that don't want to be there because he has to work with these guys every day, and he doesn't want to spend money he doesn't have...discussions with FSG are very healthy and great
- Bringing his backroom staff
- His message to Liverpool supporters: "We have to change from doubter, to believer...now"

I'm a believer.

This should be interesting.

He still has a squad riddled full of Rodgers' scrubs. Gonna need at least 2 years before he can implement his stamp on the team and have them competing for top 4 or beyond.

Saying that though, he'll have this Liverpool team fairing better than they currently were under Rodgers ( I miss him )

Enclosing- I'm not worried that they appointed him.

I am ecstatic that they appointed him

I really hope klopp does well. and not for obvious reasons but he is such a nice guy that you cant help but like.

he said he has the first and last word on transfers and the committee sort out everything in the middle I'm very happy with that. that's exactly how I think transfers should work.