Klopp's Dortmund at their best were a joy to watch and the man generally exudes passion and talks very passionately about the game. A football romantic so to say can relate to what he aspires to.
He takes over a club that has been full of itself for the past 25 odd years masquerading as some kind of huge club in Europe when they really haven't been. They had their best recent phase under Rafa who came in after winning two league titles with Valencia and a UEFA Cup and generally was regarded as one of the better managers at the time. For the majority of his stint Rafa had them punching way above their weight as they were a force in the Champions League. A two legged knockout tie against a Rafa led Pool was gonna be intense for any team in the world. He took them to two CL finals while winning, which is an incredible achievement in hindsight.
The biggest problem IMO is the difference between resources, mentality and the expectations. What Rafa did at the club during those years and with hindsight is incredible considering the dysfunction that is quite apparent at board room level. But somehow his achievements were never regarded with the amazement but instead always considered short since the club is still sitting on its high horse expecting to be the most dominant club in England.
They have habitually been 6/7/8 positions finishers since the 2009 season, which is basically indicative of the strength of the club as it stands except for the 2013/14 season where they rode Suarez to a second placed finish. It looked like they were figuring it all out with an attack of Suarez, Sturridge and Sterling that looked deadly and an improving Henderson finally showing his potential. But up they went on their high horse again and bailed on Suarez when he got in trouble at the World Cup rather than sticking by him and then they dragged a Sterling contract renewal through the press trying to pressure him into signing an extension which just pissed off his representation into demanding a move.
Their transfer policy seems to be to buy young resellable players for a higher fee while their expectancy is to be competing with clubs who buy and have established and experienced players. They operate like a glorified Spurs and have expectations of competing with clubs like United, Chelsea and City who can basically buy Pool's best player and it wouldn't even be their biggest signing of the summer.
Klopp is just the next guy set up to fail, the resources and the expectations are not the same.
Klopp set up for failure at LFC?
He takes over a club that has been full of itself for the past 25 odd years masquerading as some kind of huge club in Europe when they really haven't been. They had their best recent phase under Rafa who came in after winning two league titles with Valencia and a UEFA Cup and generally was regarded as one of the better managers at the time. For the majority of his stint Rafa had them punching way above their weight as they were a force in the Champions League. A two legged knockout tie against a Rafa led Pool was gonna be intense for any team in the world. He took them to two CL finals while winning, which is an incredible achievement in hindsight.
The biggest problem IMO is the difference between resources, mentality and the expectations. What Rafa did at the club during those years and with hindsight is incredible considering the dysfunction that is quite apparent at board room level. But somehow his achievements were never regarded with the amazement but instead always considered short since the club is still sitting on its high horse expecting to be the most dominant club in England.
They have habitually been 6/7/8 positions finishers since the 2009 season, which is basically indicative of the strength of the club as it stands except for the 2013/14 season where they rode Suarez to a second placed finish. It looked like they were figuring it all out with an attack of Suarez, Sturridge and Sterling that looked deadly and an improving Henderson finally showing his potential. But up they went on their high horse again and bailed on Suarez when he got in trouble at the World Cup rather than sticking by him and then they dragged a Sterling contract renewal through the press trying to pressure him into signing an extension which just pissed off his representation into demanding a move.
Their transfer policy seems to be to buy young resellable players for a higher fee while their expectancy is to be competing with clubs who buy and have established and experienced players. They operate like a glorified Spurs and have expectations of competing with clubs like United, Chelsea and City who can basically buy Pool's best player and it wouldn't even be their biggest signing of the summer.
Klopp is just the next guy set up to fail, the resources and the expectations are not the same.
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