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Klopp Kopped.

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http://www.liverpool-kop.com/2016/03/rodgers-explains-why-fsg-sacked-him-lfc.html?m=1

 

Why Brendan Rodgers lose his job at Liverpool? FSG's public statements on the issue are generally inconclusive, and Rodgers has never revealed an explicit reason for his termination. In a new interview this week, however, Rodgers has unambiguously explained exactly why the club's owners decided to make a change.

 

After Rodgers' termination, an FSG statement noted:

 

“Although [sacking BR] has been a difficult decision, it provides us with the best opportunity...to deliver success".

 

Soon after, Liverpool Chairman Tom Werner told The Guardian:

 

 

 

"None of the supporters are satisfied with our position and Jürgen is the right manager to take us forward. He motivates players [and] we expect players to respond to him".

 

Speaking to the Belfast Telegraph today, Rodgers made it clear that FSG sacked him because they'd lost faith in his ability to win the league title. He explained:

 

"The expectancy [at LFC] is to win the league. We went very close [but] Jurgen will feel that he can improve on that, and that's why the owners made the change...and to improve on runners-up would be to win the league".

 

Well, so far, Klopp has not improved on Rodgers' reign at Anfield:

 

Rodgers

 

* All Comps: 51% win percentage (Averaged 1.8 points-per-game (PPG)

 

* Prem Only: 52% win percentage (Averaged 1.8 PPG)

 

Klopp

 

* All Comps: 45% win percentage (Averages 1.7 PPG)

 

* Prem Only: 45% win percentage (Averages 1.6 PPG)

 

Additionally, after the same number of league games last season:

 

* Liverpool were in 5th place on 54 points, just 2 points away from 4th place.

 

* Under Klopp, the Reds are ten points worse off (7th in league on 44 points), and are currently 6 points away from a Champions League place.

 

If FSG were 'not satisfied' with Liverpool's position last season, it's hard to see how the group can be satisfied with the a 10-point regression in the league under Klopp, especially with his fabled ability to 'motivate players'.

 

Expectations will be high next season, and rightly so. Rodgers finished second in his sophomore season at Anfield, and in my view Klopp should be judged against that achievement next season.

 

Reds fans endlessly go on about how Klopp inherited an inadequate squad (and use that as an excuse for regression) but the same applies to Rodgers, who inherited a squad that achieved Liverpool's worst ever Premier League points total.

 

Despite that, Rodgers took Liverpool to the brink of the title, and Klopp - who is (according to Liverpool fans) a much better manager than Rodgers - should be able to achieve something similar.

 

If not, why not? (Cue endless excuses/rationalisations)

 

Author: Jaimie K

 

Some good points in this article, I agree with all of it apart from Klopp should be compared to what BR did in his second season next season.As I said all along the precedent has been set when we sacked a manager fot a bad season after he had challenged for the title,if Klopp has a poor season next season there will be fans who will be calling for his head and it will be the same thing over and over again unless a manger is perfect and never has a bad season.

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Personally I don't like the article. It probably keeps something going that might be better suited to the former manager forum.

 

Klopp is playing with another man's team. Another man's unbalanced team. Another man's unbalanced, injured team. Klopp wants to play a different style of football. Many of the players he has at his disposal this season are not especially suited to it.

 

Klopp will be here for a while (as long as the owners don't exasperate him and he moves on fo that reason). But assuming he is backed, he will be here for a while. Consequently he can take a longer term view. No need to rush in and panic buy in January. Let's see what the ones you've got are made of. And some of the players Rodgers had all but forgotten were brought back from loan, or given their chance from the youth ranks, again, so Klopp could take his time assessing what they are made of.

 

I fully expect, going by his previous time at Dortmund, for Klopp's first window to be a busy one, both outgoing and incoming. Let him shape something, and then we will see if he's better than Brendan. His track record certainly is, but any fair minded fan will appreciate that he has barely started his work at Liverpool.

 

With that said, we've already been to a final, and we are progressing in the Europa League, and the character and passion in the team looks way beyond what Brendan managed in his final season with the squad he (expensively) assembled.

 

I liked Rodgers. He came so close to winning that title with us. It wasn't to be. After that it fell away and the signs were not good. The most charitable person might argue that he should have been given more time. But then Klopp became available and the owners made a call. You won't find many fans disagreeing with their choice.

 

Klopp isn't perfect but we have to let him do his work. I can't wait to see how it will unfold.

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Im embarassed for that Journalist. That could have been written by a 9 year old with his bottom lip hanging out, tears running down his cheeks.

He's not a journalist, mate. He's a United fan masquerading as a Liverpool blogger. He spends his time writing Manc-friendly articles about us, and really bad fiction and film scripts.

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Kanwar is a cunt of the highest order. He's made it clear over the years how much he hates Gerrard and Rafa, and Klopp is apparently to be added to the list very soon. No fucking chance the guy is a lfc fan, if anything winding up lfc fans seems to be the sole purpose of his existence. He's been banned from so many lfc forums that he's been left with the only option of creating his own. 

I still remember coming across a 'Liverpool fan Utd was the better side' headline on newsnow, and it was Kanwar giving an interview on some manc fansite agreeing with them morons that they were the better team in the game where we smashed them 4-1 at their place. He's of the same ilk as the other fat cunt at Koptalk. Poor form quoting that clown, JP.

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Ha. You beat me to it. LFCKopchat have been keeping track of him for years. Here's another interesting piece.

 

https://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2015/5/Liverpool_Kop,-d-,com/SHP_ADJ_293112.aspx#.VuC70y6nxJ8

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He's not a journalist, mate. He's a United fan masquerading as a Liverpool blogger. He spends his time writing Manc-friendly articles about us, and really bad fiction and film scripts.

 

So a bad Tit then.  Makes sense ive never heard of him, writing crap like that.

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