I agree with most everything except the "It's on Klopp" if we don't win trophies or get into the Champions League. It isn't, he's allowed one full season to realise you can't "do a Dortmund" in a league where there five other teams trying to "do a Bayern Munich".
Long before the end of this season he'll realise the folly of such silliness (as will most of the fans who are currently 100% behind it). Then though, the owners need to dig and dig f****** deep. None of this 30 million annual budget bollocks either.
Have to disagree with this. Like all managers before, if we don't get trophies or a top 4 it will most certainly be on Klopp.
He had a season completely written off last year, and if a world class manager believes he can do a "Dortmund" in the league like the Prem - then he must either get the credit in doing so, or fall on his sword trying.
The team is his.
The transfer targets are his.
And he seems at one with FSG's prudent monetary policy.
Thus, if he's not going to kick up a stink about a lack of funds or whatever then I'm afraid it most certainly is on him. God knows manager's previous to him have either been hailed legends, or crucified for their respective contempt or quietness for our transfer policies.
There is no hiding, he's placed his cards on the table; so if top 4 and trophies aren't accumulated in some fashion by the end of the season, this squarely falls at the feet of Klopp.
It's a long season, so at the moment I can only cross my fingers and hope things get better because after the first three games, the balance of the squad, the square pegs in round holes and a lack of playing players in their best positions and building a system around our optimals, our manager will sprinkle a bit of the Dortmund stardust over this squad and start to get us shifting.
In the words of John Gibbons:
By spending modestly in the summer everyone at the club is arguably putting more pressure on themselves.Klopp is integral to the quote above.
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