Jürgen Klopp had a big big job on when he took over the club just over a year ago.
Lets face it we have been a broken club for the best part of the last 6 years, we have had to endure the H&G era and what that did to us as both a club and a fanbase, they nearly ran us into the ground, we had to fight, often sadly against each other at times, but it was a fight. We had to become accountants and activists to try to force them out, they took on the wrong club if they thought they could ride roughshot over us and we would take it laying down. FSG came to town and there has always been a level of suspicion surrounding them as to if they were just another bunch of Americans to they don't understand the game or the club to they are naive and more.
In management terms we had to go through the Rafa times, again massive splits in the fans over him, some love the man and what he put himself through for the club, some felt he had to go and I for one was shocked to hear some of the stuff in the ground about a man who had brought us success and also put himself out there against the previous owners. Then we have had to endure the Hodge and wondering what we had done to deserve him, then we had Kenny back which again strained the fanbase as so many idolize the man to a point where they couldn't stand some of the criticism he received from the younger part of our fans. Then came Brendan and again he was tainted almost from day one with criticism that he didn't have the CV to get the job and that again because FSG didn't get the game they had taken too much of a gamble with him.. Again causing arguments within the fans
Jürgen walked into all that baggage whether he was aware or not, and he has had to try to work to bring the fans back together as well as try to resurrect a sleeping giant that has basically finished around 6th-8th for those six years bar the one season went close, again because of the cracks within the club and the lack of a one club mentality we didn't capitalize on that season and it broke up again so quickly because frankly that was built on sand where you need more solid foundations for longer term success and that's what I feel Jürgen is laying.. Those foundations
But those foundations wont be laid overnight, it will take time, but here is what im hoping, that we can heal these cracks in the fanbase and everyone gets on board, that we have patience and see what the manager is trying to do, he will make mistakes as he goes along, the league is tougher in general terms that in Germany and he is still learning that, as Guardiola is doing at City, that teams don't lay down when you are on top, they may not have the quality but they have a never say die attitude and that's not the same in most leagues, what happened last week at Bournemouth or what happened at Southampton last season I bet Klopp has never been part of before, those games were probably won and teams don't come back from that.
What im trying to say is that here we are on the back of a couple of disappointing results in the past couple of games and those cracks are showing in the fans again, some are making snide comments when we would be better suited in looking at the bigger picture, we were never going to go from 6th-8th overnight, that mentality that is within the club over the last few years that we haven't by the nature of our league finishes been able to put seasons together when we regularly gain over 2pts a game over the 38 games, that there will be bumps along this building process but if we all get behind it then we will get there, Klopp will get there. How often have we in the recent memory by the middle of December had a home record of Pld 7 W 5 D 2 L0 +15? The home record of turning Anfield into a fortress is part of the rebuilding of the club and is proof again that Klopp is getting there.
He's had one summer window to try to remould the squad and im sure if you asked him completely privately that he wouldn't be completely happy as yet with it, it will take more time.. Player wise and mentality wise
He's working on us and having a positive effect on the crowd, its been the best atmosphere for a while apart from potentially the last 2 months of 14/15, but that effect he's trying to have on us he is trying to have on the squads mentality.
Football isn't an easy game, there are always two teams playing and they will always try to approach games against you with how they respect you, the majority of teams are sh*t scared of us and their approach shows that because of how deep they defend against us because they know we can hurt them but yes of course we have to improve, of course because again we aren't used to in recent times dominating games and having teams scared of what we can do against them, often teams have come to Anfield knowing they can get something and put their names in lights getting a result in front of the famous Kop. That improvement has got to come in different ways, in the way that we cant be turned easily like West Ham did for their second goal yesterday, that a simple long ball doesn't cause us massive issues because then that domination and pushing the opposition back goes out of the window. We need to make sure that Bournemouth doesn't happen again, but for me that far less likely to happen again than a West Ham as id think 8 times out of 10 if a game becomes stretched and end to end like Bournemouth did id back us to win in that situation.. I think we just felt that was won and never felt we would lose it as a group of players until 4-3.. But they will learn from that.
We need a few more faces in the squad, of different type too, Mane is such a threat because of his pace but we don't really have another one like him to change it up or go one down each wing, we probably need another type that can pick the lock in those types of games but like I said the squad wasn't going to be fixed in one window and as long as we stick together and believe in the vision which I firmly do then we will get there..
Just don't let that belief drop with 3 or 4 injuries and a couple of poor results. Klopp's been here about 14 months and in my opinion has fixed a lot of cracks already but there's more work to do that only time and belief is what we need.
Its been a F***ing tough six years, those scars wont heal overnight, the club wont fix overnight either but the next six will be boss, we need a one club we will fight any f**ker attitude again, we have the right man to take us back to where we belong.
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