Are you basically saying that the club is ALL about Jürgen now, that there is no other history than Jürgen. I acknowledge that Jürgen is a big draw for these players signing, of course he is, but do you think they would have signed for Burnely just because Jürgen was a manager there? The club can't function without everyone else and especially without the owners, who's money and vision have transformed the club from a sleeping slowly decaying giant into a modern footballing club with an international reach and which last year reached the final of the CL, which I would say is fairly competitive. We then went on to sign 4 very exciting players who should make us even more competitive
Yes, that's what I'm saying.
We can no longer attract players based on our history. Footballs changed now and 99% of the time, money talks. Fortunately for us we are in that other 1% and players actually want to play for our manager regardless of money.
In my opinion, you're naive if you believe we can still pull players because of how dominant we were back in the 70s and 80s. If that was the case then why couldn't Rodgers sign anyone who was half decent? Kenny struggled too.
Using your example then I believe if klopp was manager of Burnley and they sold 300m worth of players but he still got them in the champions league, still got them to a champions league final, then he could still use that money and bring in top players to play for him yes. I think he's that much of a pull. It's irrelevant that burnley is a shithole, and they are a small club with little history. Players just want klopp.
Look at what he's doing at Liverpool now. We're signing players that other top clubs (with more money than us) want but they want to play for klopp. We wouldn't have Virgil or Keita if it wasn't for him, are you disagreeing?
So you can praise the owners all you want mate, but it's klopp who is the pull, not them, and without Jürgen we will be in a lot of trouble just like we were under Kenny and just like we were under Brendan.
FSG can't compete with other clubs. But Klopp can.
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