Let's come back next week and see if we're right!
I wasn't wrong. Especially given the sacking. That was always going to motivate Leicester. *sigh* We're going to be 5th/6th in a 4-horse race at this rate.
Jurgen Klopp Sack Watch
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I wasn't wrong. Especially given the sacking. That was always going to motivate Leicester. *sigh* We're going to be 5th/6th in a 4-horse race at this rate.
Agreed. The total points in a season is nothing compared to your place in the table come May.
It would have been an achievement to lead Leicester to a CL final, but of course a club has been mismanaged if they win a cup or appear in a final but get relegated. I've heard from quite a few Wigan Athletic fans who would've swapped the FA Cup for 17th place that season, and many who are obviously happy with the cup but are angry with Martinez' management leading them into the mess they are in now.
I agree that the Liverpool board probably saw Hodgson more as a safe pair of hands to see them through troubled times than the man to storm them back into the European elite. I've just had a look at their squad from that year and my God it was awful, worse than I remembered it being in truth. You're right to point out that Hodgson wasn't backed in the summer transfer window and he lost Macherano (with Torres following in January after having been injured).
However the calibre of signings he made (Konchesky, Jovanović, Poulsen, Jones, Cole) and the dire football and results are things he has to carry the can for, harsh though it may seem given the circumstances. He was doubtlessly dealt a shittier hand at Liverpool than Moyes was here, but the reason I see a valid comparison between the two was the abject hopelessness their tenures pervaded through the two clubs. It wasn't just that things were bad, it was that both sets of fans knew nothing was going to get better until the bosses went.
On topic I don't see anything like that happening to Klopp. Liverpool fans are concerned at Klopp's lack of plan B, him persisting with players who have either not been good enough (Can in particular) or are out of position (Firminho, Milner, Lucas) and compounding this by failing to add to his squad in January. However they back him: they'd much rather have a clear-out of the squad than lose Klopp (and I don't blame them).
Ironically, this seems like good run of fixture for them though.
Hopefully we make the L'pool's slip (we should be ahead of them if we win the game in hand). With them stripping Arsenal & City, we potentially slip in top 4 & closing gap with City to finish in 2nd place.
@AndyJ1985 It's the opposite mate. The hipsters were those who didn't mind a passed it Maureen, while the grain here was miserable as feck missing out on Klopp. Only turn back this thread to early in the season when L'pool was still title race...
Chelsea fans definitely can testify.
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Sarcasm??
So who's going to be our next manager?
It starting, isn't it?
Have a feeling Klopp is not all that and his personality is a fraud. To get Liverpool back on track, there is only one way: Spending big for big players ala City, Chelsea and United now but Klopp already made himself known he's not a fan of that approach.
No big players now want to play for Liverpool because of the wage and the city. Losing CL place will damn Liverpool even further.
Holy feck! Just seen the result
Is there anyone who still thinks he's some sort of genius?!? An almighty fraud if there ever was one.
Is there anyone who still thinks he's some sort of genius?!? An almighty fraud if there ever was one.
Is there anyone who still thinks he's some sort of genius?!? .
Most people on here, I would say.
Johnno.
But But United scored an offside goal la.Holy feck! Just seen the result
Is there anyone who still thinks he's some sort of genius?!? An almighty fraud if there ever was one.
They Dared To Be Useless
Season highlights:
January: Klopp holds a meeting with his squad in a bid to halt their poor form. Liverpool immediately lose to Southampton. Klopp urges his players to forget about the cups, and just concentrate on the league.
,February: Klopp challenges Liverpool to win every game until the season's end. Liverpool immediately lose to Leicester. Klopp urges his players to forget about the league, and just concentrate on the Grand National.
March: Klopp challenges his players to stop being crap. Liverpool immediately lose to themselves. Klopp urges his players to forget about the cups, the league, football and employment.
April: Klopp urges his players to f*ck off 'cos they're getting him the sack. The players respond by calling him a jinx.
May: Liverpool organise an open-top bus parade on which they show off Nivea products. Klopp urges his players to concentrate on the road. Liverpool drive into the Mersey.
Season highlights:
January: Klopp holds a meeting with his squad in a bid to halt their poor form. Liverpool immediately lose to Southampton. Klopp urges his players to forget about the cups, and just concentrate on the league.
,February: Klopp challenges Liverpool to win every game until the season's end. Liverpool immediately lose to Leicester. Klopp urges his players to forget about the league, and just concentrate on the Grand National.
March: Klopp challenges his players to stop being crap. Liverpool immediately lose to themselves. Klopp urges his players to forget about the cups, the league, football and employment.
April: Klopp urges his players to f*ck off 'cos they're getting him the sack. The players respond by calling him a jinx.
May: Liverpool organise an open-top bus parade on which they show off Nivea products. Klopp urges his players to concentrate on the road. Liverpool drive into the Mersey.
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Robinhood of the league. What a performance
Gerrard may finally get his chance rest of the season if Klopp loses the next 3.
At age 31...He's done good this season, but we need at least another for rotation sake and as a future first choice. Not saying I want Clyne, to be honest I prefer Bellerin but he'll be off to Barca in a year or 2.
"It looked like we hadn't spoken about the strength of Leicester and that's a real problem," Klopp told Sky Sports.
Did he tell players that Leicester are done and dusted and Pool need no preparation
Did he tell players that Leicester are done and dusted and Pool need no preparation
Problem is they'll win their next 2 games, certainly. City away then could be tough but it's the sort of game they turn up for. Then they have Everton at Anfield who they always beat, then Bournemouth at Anfield. I wouldn't rule them out of anything yet.
LOL at Robin Hood Klopp: Taking points from the rich, giving them to the poor.
Brilliant who came up with that.
Brilliant who came up with that.
He set the lads up well tonight though, isn't it?
Lucas at CB, nice high defensive line, Vardy playing for the opposing team, what could possibly go wrong?
Lucas at CB, nice high defensive line, Vardy playing for the opposing team, what could possibly go wrong?
Exactly. You don't give a guy 3 year extension when he already had 3 years to run and then to go on sack him a year later. Personally think Liverpool owners just happy milking the prem money.
They will only sack him if the fans turn on Klopp.
That's the thing with Klopp. He sets up the team the same way irrespective of the opposition. There is no plan B either. The problem is his team is just not good enough for this kind of approach. Pep and Van Gaal also have somewhat similar approaches. Jose is the exact opposite. He plans meticulously for each opposition.We're all laughing but they are still above us despite being in an absolutely dire run of form, they will stabilise to some degree if we don't go ahead of them in the next two to three games we never will this season.
It's high time for letters to the players' mums imo.
We are one point behind them with a game in hand against City, if we beat City we even leapfrog them into 2nd/3rd.
Liverpool's players aren't good enough and they don't have the money or pulling power to change that either (and I think Arsenal are heading the same way once Wenger and Sanchez leave).
If they want to return to the top of world football they either need an exceptional crop of youth players, or a sugar daddy owner.
If they want to return to the top of world football they either need an exceptional crop of youth players, or a sugar daddy owner.
It's because he is too arrogant in his approach (just like Guardiola). Serves him right.
I'd forgotten ''Letters to the Player's Mums''
Is he bipolar?
We will be ahead of them next weekend with a trophy in the bank
How the actual feck did people really think that this Liverpool team was capable of winning the league? They have Wijnaldum and Lallana in midfield ffs.
Apparently, Brendan read out letters from the players' mums. Mrs Skrtel took it literally, and wrote 'LOL'.
It borders on pure delusion.
Liverpool would be absolutely mental to sack Klopp. Who could they possibly hire that would be better than him?
It's not like Liverpool has a stream of world class coaches lined up who are just begging to manage their team.
They were very fortunate just to get Klopp. After what he achieved at Dortmund, he could have easily waited for a better offer.
They were, quite literally, begging him to manage their club back in 2015:
Oh no - . I didn't know, this cannot be possible... (I was thinking RAWK)
"I waited and waited for it. The manager had spoken to the mothers of every player in the team, he'd been reading a message before every game for months and finally my turn had come.
"At first, I didn't know that the manager would be reading a letter from her, then he mentioned her name and I was really overwhelmed. It said she loved me, is proud of me, is always with me and missing me.
"There was more, but those are just the words I needed to hear. It filled me up. The other players were also really moved because every week, regardless of whose mother it was with the message, we were all inspired and emotional.
"We were getting really strong, powerful words and it pushed us so much."
. I didn't know, this cannot be possible... (I was thinking RAWK)"I waited and waited for it. The manager had spoken to the mothers of every player in the team, he'd been reading a message before every game for months and finally my turn had come.
"At first, I didn't know that the manager would be reading a letter from her, then he mentioned her name and I was really overwhelmed. It said she loved me, is proud of me, is always with me and missing me.
"There was more, but those are just the words I needed to hear. It filled me up. The other players were also really moved because every week, regardless of whose mother it was with the message, we were all inspired and emotional.
"We were getting really strong, powerful words and it pushed us so much."
I think you mean "LL".