I'm agreeing with that. Klopp is accepting essentially the same arrangement as BR.
( Although it might be that he has 1 or 2 of his people coming in to go on the committee, which would help him. Dont know if this is the case or not though?)
Like I say Jürgen is accepting the owners promise that he will have the final say. But he doesnt know for sure that that will be kept.
The truth in these situations is that a lot will depend on how strong his hand is going in to each transfer window. If the team is doing well, he can threaten to walk and probably bulldoze the committee if needs be. If its not, he probably cant. (I doubt that Brendan did much bulldozing this summer.)
Fortunately we are going to be top of the league going into the next few windows.
There's a lot of negotiating between people in these type of meetings.
When you have a finite amount of money, and there are lists of players, no doubt a bit of horse trading goes on, and it's in this scenario that I think Klopp will get his way, whereas BR seemingly said "OK, I'll agree to your player, if you agree to mine" which kind of undermines the whole process.
The analyst he's bringing with him is the opposition analyst as far as I know, so along with his assistant coach, neither will be sitting on the "committee", but Klopp strikes me as a very forceful character who will insist on doing things his own way.
In his agents words, he doesn't get involved much with transfers, but I suspect that will change at least in part.
The next few windows will make things a lot clearer, but really, I think people have got their arses in an uproar over sod all with this.
The club works (or should do) as a collective, and I think that Klopp will be very comfortable with that, but also he won't be averse to giving someone a bollocking if he thinks it's needed, and that includes Board members and the CEO.
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