My own feelings on how Klopp’s tenure at LFC will pan out are like this:
1. He’ll carry on in the same lung-busting vein, but just fall short of winning significant silverware, then depart as a gallant hero regardless having given them something of a glimpse of the promised land...
or
2. He will actually manage to deliver a PL or CL title, be lauded as the messiah, then he won’t be able to maintain that peak a la Dortmund, and feck off & leave the job anyway, mission accomplished.
Cannot see him staying in the job longer than 5 years total either way. He couldn’t sustain it against Bayern so why would it be different here?
You can see why the Liverpool job appealed to him really. About as close to a no lose situation as he could have hoped to walk into.
Hello guys,
I am a looong silent read in these forums, because honestly I love the English football (or do you say soccer?) and I love the attitude in your country towards football. This being said, this is my first posting and I am not a native speaker so forgive me if I am offending anyone, I am not doing this on purpose.
This posting about Juergen Klopp has motivated me to come out of the shell and post some lines about our former manager (I am a BVB fan).
I know that Juergen is seen as polarizing, but this guy is like an avatar of what football is really about. He is down to earth, he sees fans first, money last, his teams play very clean and do not at all fight dirty (BVB had lowest counts of yellow cards for a long time when he was with us). Klopp even said that he does not want to see that a player is diving for penalty, he has forbidden that, because he does not want to win this way. His gameplan is not only about winning, he wants to give the viewers a memorable show with offensive plays. The reason he started at Liverpool is because this club has a long tradition, same as BVB. And even if I know that a lot of you guys like Liverpool like we love Schalke (as in: enemies forever), all those clubs are about tradition, fight and even eat dirt when this helps to win. It is football for the people, not for the rich guys.
When Juergen arrived at BVB, our club was at rock bottom. Sponsors started to leave the club and the situation was dire. But Klopp personally took a long telephone list and talked to all of them. He asked them to stay and convinced them of a bright future, to see more in a club than money. But even though we needed money more than anything, he asked our management not to raise the prices in our stadium and to protect the Suedtribuene as a place for supporters to STAND and not sit, because this is much cheaper.
To us fans he said that he cannot guarantee a better future or even titles, but he guaranteed that every time BVB will play, the green will burn hot and every player will give everything that he has to ensure a win or he won't play at all. At the start everyone was very sceptical, because he asked some really good players to leave the club, because they did not want to follow his philosophy. But it soon started to pay off and in the following years I have seen football that I have never seen in my entire life before, let alone from my very own club.
The problem that Juergen had in Dortmund were the finances. Obviously the club could not pay as much as Bayern or even Madrid and Barcelona, so our promising start was shattered when players started to leave the club. The first one was Sahin. Everyone understood that Real was the better club, but the one that really broke us (and Klopp) was Mario Goetze.... we all thought, BVB would march right to the top of Europe and grab the CL title, if not this year, but next year, only a question of time when Goetzes leave was announced. And we all started to feel very bad and beaten. The top clubs started to pick us apart. In Interviews you could understand that Klopp was demotivated as well. This was the beginning of the end of the Klopp era.
But even when we were at our worst at the very end of the Bundesliga, we loved Klopp. Because he brought more than the promise of titles, he was a friend, a hard worker, a guy crazy for football, a guy who brought back our believe for a better world where football was not dictated by money, but by heart and spirit.
I still miss him a lot and since he transferred to Liverpool, I watch PL more than I watch Bundesliga. And title or no title, CL win or no CL win, I think I will never love a persona in soccer more than I do love him. He brings so much more to the table than titles, he brings honor, loyalty, friendship between the club and the supporters and he brings heart and love in a time of money and power.
So no, when he will leave at one day, he is not "going to feck off" as you described it. He will leave in tears. He could not sustain against Bayern, because Bayern could get every Dortmund player they wanted. And after Lewandowski, Götze and talks about Gündogan, it was too much for him. How are you going to win over the long run against a club that is taking your players at will? When Klopp left BVB, everyone was in tears: the fans, the clubs leaders, Klopp, even the press.
The picture that you paint of Klopp could not be more wrong. You can say a lot of negative things about him and I completely understand how people could hate him, but Klopp is no coward, he does not look at his persona or his title compilation when looking for a new club. He is looking for the love of football, for masses fascinated by their club and Liverpool appealed to him, because their fans are fans at heart.
For me, football is more than titles, it is about emotion, great games, great fights, great personas, amazing stadium atmosphere and about hugging other fans that you have never seen before in your life when emotions get the best of you. This is why Klopp will win titles at one point, because he thinks the same. And when frequencies are so much in line with each other, great things are about to happen. He has taken BVB from a below average club to one of the most recognized clubs in Europe (we no longer have this status, no doubt) and I doubt very much that he will leave Liverpool with nothing to talk about, even if it is only about great stories and great games.
