As ever you lack any context or relativity. When Klopp came into this club we were pulling in all different directions. We had a transfer strategy that was nothing of the kind and had chosen to turn its back on 'attractive, thrilling football' in favour of buying expensive duds like Christian Benteke, Markovic and bargain bin transfers like Lambert and Manquillo which, to use an analogy, was akin to throwing in rotten satsumas as 'stocking fillers' at Christmas time. Farcically we had the contradictory situation of an entire backroom staff being sacked in the summer of 2015 while the manager kept his job. When we found ourselves 'competing' in Europe in the seasons prior to Klopp's arrival we were dumped out by starry illustrious names like Braga, Zenit St Petersburg, Basle and Besiktas - three of those in the early stages of the Europa League for fucks sake. In the months prior to his arrival, we couldn't score more than one goal a game while shipping sh*t loads at the other end perfectly exemplified by possibly the worst ever performance in Liverpool FC history at Stoke in May 2015.
So Klopp comes into the club and swiftly goes about doing what he does best. He gets us to two cup finals with a donkey of a squad. He then oversees our return to the Champions League while playing a brand of football that is not only thrilling and attractive to football fans all over but to players outwith the club. He deploys his charisma to convince class players like VVD to shun a bigger pay day (and instant trophies) at Man City. With few exceptions he has improved every single player at this club. He's seen what the likes of Mane and Salah did at their previous clubs and has improved them tenfold. He guides us through the Champions League with little to no fanfare and is back on the verge of getting us into the last 8 in Europe, the arena where we all felt we should have been competing. And he's achieved this while the competition around us has only got tougher. Not only have teams around us inflated the transfer market to stratospheric levels while we've remained at the same level, the income of brilliant managerial masterminds like Guardiola at Man City and Conte at Chelsea has only risen standards on the field as well. These two elements should have worked against Liverpool and Klopp but Klopp's leadership alone means that this doesn't become an issue or certainly an issue as big as it would have been under almost any other manager. 99.9% of managers out there would have been exposed under such circumstances but we aren't. Yeah - he hasn't got everything right and for sure in the goalkeeping matter his decision to try placating both keepers doesn't seem wise in retrospect but to use that in the way you are doing, to try and pithily use this as a dominating factor in your view of Klopp is pathetic when you fail to recognise so many greater matters that he has succeeded on.
By all means, focus on the micro elements and criticise on that level but don't even dare try to fool us by taking such micro elements and expanding them into bigger, macro elements of his leadership at this club. When you try to argue such micro elements and apply it to a bigger, all encompassing argument then you fail miserably. It's like you're bringing a sausage to a sword fight. That's all you're doing and you look a fool for doing it.
Love your positivity regarding Klopp, but it seems you're placing all the blame on Brendan when it's clear that some of the fault lies with the fact that some players that were forced on him by the transfer committee!
You're focusing on BR's last season while neglecting the previous one and ignoring factors that lead to said season being such as disaster. Brendan over compensated for the problem at the back by changing his tactics (wrongly) to a more defensive style, when we didn't have the players to do such.
He didn't want Mario or Markovic, they were (committee signings) so it's unfair to lay that blame at his door. There lies my defense of Brendan, I think he could have turned it around but no matter.
So now we have Jürgen. Wow, isn't it still crazy that Jürgen choose us over Utd £££? (allegedly) 🙂
We have a boss that has proven his worth turning a team of also rans into title winners. I know Mancs that would swap him with Jose in a heartbeat! If fact, Jürgen was the No 1 choice of most Sister shaggers, before we landed him. With a PATHETIC net spend he has managed to do, almost what he did at Dortmund, ( put us back among the big boys) obviously it's a much tougher league in England, so it will take a lot more to win the league than it did in Germany.
Bayern took a gap year apparently, but huge credit must go to Jürgen for seizing the opportunity to strike when the opportunity arose, lets hope should City go through a spell where they're not firing in all cylinders and we can capitalise, as that's our best chance of moving up a level given their financial power.
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