Top 5 this century is pretty loaded: (in no particular order) Pep, José, Carlo, Zidane, SAF, Wenger, Simeone, Conte. And then you can throw in Flick, Tuchel, Bielsa, Manchini, Enrique et al. And I am probably missing some.
This is a hilarious take.
What is your top 10 for this century? Did you miss the part where I wrote "I am probably missing some" or are you a nice guy in general?
as a neutral in the German-English beef, obviously disliking both sides, there's absolutely no equivalence in Klopp taking a job at RedBull or Rheinmetall sponsorship to having clubs in your league owned by authoritarian states - and it's even more embarrassing when they steamroll the competition, like City or PSG.
You are missing/ignoring context. He always thrived in the „us against the system“ underdog role (which was always hilarious due to BVB being a publicly listed company) and now joins Red Bull. All the stuff he preached was for nothing. You can tell by how surprised and sad/angry a lot of naive Dortmund supporters are today.
I’m just surprised so many believed in this facade and really took him for some champion for a just cause. Idolizing rich and successful people is excusable only until you turn 18-20
The fact that "salt" is pretty universal should tell you it's not particularly a rival thing but rather people highlighting how much of a hypocrite he is.
I reckon being the main spokesperson for an MLM is selling out so Klopp sold out a long, long time ago.
I mean it wasn't out of the blue. Prior to Redbull Klopp already did a ton of ads even for Deutsche Vermögensberatung which is a MLM scam company, shilling for DVAG is worse than RB and it's clear he gives zero fecks about who he collaborates with for the right price. At Dortmund he used to be criticized by rival fans for his hair transplants (followed by veneers at Liverpool) and for trying to dress like a teenager, it was explained as his way of connecting with young players but Klopp clearly just did a lot of surgery to look like a commercialised product that can shill everything from cars, sausages, insurance because prior to his cosmetic adjustments he had a gloomier image. That's no different Instagram and Tiktok "stars" who get plastic surgery to look like their filtered selves so they can shill brands online, except Klopp was already hustling like this in the late 2000s because he never had lucrative wages as a player. I do find the whole "joining clubs that sing YWNA" very cringe, but Klopp probably thought it's romantic.
It's funny how seemingly small the moral issues German football has compared to everywhere else. German fans are outraged at the idea that a coach might work for an energy drink company that owns dozens of sports teams while the PL is getting legal threats from Abu Dhabi.
The only one with a chance of being mentioned for tactical innovations at the end of the century is Guardiola, both Ancelotti and Ferguson are great man managers more than top tacticians, and man management isn't as highly regarded as much as tactical doctrines because future generations of players can't be managed the way Fergie managed his players in the 1990s with strict hairdryer discipline or boots to the head.Both Ferguson and Klopp also constantly reinvented themselves and were ahead of the curve over an extended period of time with huge changes and new obstacles in the sport though (tactically to a lesser extent than Guardiola who is closer to "a tactical GTO" but with other skills to compensate).Bit early in the century to make this assessment no?
That's what you get for using his name as a nickname.
It's because the PL (and London) started selling out decades ago. 95% of German fans don't want what happened to the PL to happen to the Bundesliga. It is simply normalised in England.It's funny how seemingly small the moral issues German football has compared to everywhere else. German fans are outraged at the idea that a coach might work for an energy drink company that owns dozens of sports teams while the PL is getting legal threats from Abu Dhabi.
The selling out, or more exactly the massive marketing push, could have happened with better, more competent, insightful people in charge.
