Klopp Kopped.

[JermainePennant]

 

RODGERS' FIRST 8 GAMES VS. BIG 4

 

Liverpool 2-2 Man City Drew

Liverpool 0-2 Arsenal Lost

Liverpool 1-2 Man Utd Lost

Chelsea 1-1 Liverpool Drew

Man Utd 2-1 Liverpool Lost

Arsenal 2-2 Liverpool Drew

Man City 2-2 Liverpool Drew

Liverpool 2-2 Chelsea Drew

 

your point is already proven by facts, sir

Thank you for putting this up, the record against the big teams was something which was hard to defend but those first 8 games are quite impressive considering the shit squad we had.He lost to fergusons Manu twice and one of those games we were down to ten men and the only other game he lost was to Arsenal.The rest were draws against strong teams and against teams like city we were unlucky not to win.

 

The season after that we started putting them to the sword and the losses started coming when are team was took apart and things went to shit.His record was not as bad as some make out when you look at it like that, he done well when he had a squad he had worked with and when he was building a new team he was not losing much.

[JermainePennant]

The way Buvac talks about being being called, it reminds me of the scene from Anchorman where he blows the conch shell.

I like the sound of Buvac and have been impressed with how he conducts himself since he's been here.He reminds me of Pako and Rafa in that he doesn't get over excited about anything during a match, they looked at a goal as a small detail and were always concentrating on the bigger picture.

 

I like having these guys on the coaching staff who watch the game with no emotion and that was one thing missing under BR.

[Em City]

Sorry got it all mixed up. I'm talking about the wrong season. Doh.

 

Ha, was just going to point that out.

 

But you're right, we did play Man City off the park in that 2-2. Sturridge was immense and Gerrard  rolled back the years with a 25 yard screamer only for Reina to have a brain fart and come out only for Aguero to squeeze it in with an unbelievable finish.

 

The 2-2 with Chelsea was the Suarez-Ivanovic incident I think. The first goal we scored that day was a beaut too, well worth a look.

[Em City]

Ha, was just going to point that out.

 

But you're right, we did play Man City off the park in that 2-2. Sturridge was immense and Gerrard  rolled back the years with a 25 yard screamer only for Reina to have a brain fart and come out and Aguero squeezed it in with an unbelievable finish.

 

The 2-2 with Chelsea was the Suarez-Ivanovic incident I think. The first goal we scored that day was a beaut too, well worth a look.

[Sugar Ape]

[Gym Beglin]

Just do not understand what Klopp hopes to achieve between now and the summer.

 

I'm not even angry, just genuinely confused, what's the point in training a bunch of players many of which you know full well will be sold in the summer?

 

I honestly wouldn't mind if he went on holiday now until June. Anfield attendances can sink to 20,000 and the team can be managed by one of his assistants.

 

Lallana, Benteke, Sturridge, Ibe, Lucas, Mignolet, Bogdan, Enrique, Flanno, Rossiter, Skrtel, Toure, all can go this summer.

 

Either not good enough or not fit enough or not suited to be a top level athlete, or just plain unlucky.

 

we get nothing back in return. Time to remove the barnacles from our hull.

[VladimirIlyich]

Its almost as if our supporters are expecting the results that took 5 years at Dortmund to happen to take about 3 months to happen here.

[Section_31]

Its almost as if our supporters are expecting the results that took 5 years at Dortmund to happen to take about 3 months to happen here.

Baffling isn't it? Spitshine Tommy couldn't polish these turds.

[RobbieOR]

Anything he does between now and the summer is a bonus. He's working with somebody elses unbalanced squad. He could do with some help above him this month, we badly need goals.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Just do not understand what Klopp hopes to achieve between now and the summer.

 

I'm not even angry, just genuinely confused, what's the point in training a bunch of players many of which you know full well will be sold in the summer?

 

I honestly wouldn't mind if he went on holiday now until June. Anfield attendances can sink to 20,000 and the team can be managed by one of his assistants.

 

Lallana, Benteke, Sturridge, Ibe, Lucas, Mignolet, Bogdan, Enrique, Flanno, Rossiter, Skrtel, Toure, all can go this summer.

 

Either not good enough or not fit enough or not suited to be a top level athlete, or just plain unlucky.

 

we get nothing back in return. Time to remove the barnacles from our hull.

Get into Europe, so we can actually attract decent players.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

 

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-fc-boss-klopp-lands-10740889? Liverpool FC boss Klopp lands beer deal

• 16:00, 15 JAN 2016
• UPDATED  16:00, 15 JAN 2016
• BY JAMES PEARCE

German coach to promote the Warsteiner brewery

 

 

Jurgen Klopp and Warsteiner

 

Jurgen Klopp has landed a lucrative deal to promote German beer Warsteiner.

The Liverpool boss has been signed up as a brand ambassador for Germany’s largest privately owned brewery.

“I am particularly pleased about this partnership because I associate with a tasty Warsteiner a piece of home,” Klopp said.

“My grandparents had a small brewery and I appreciate the pleasure of a good beer.”

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Klopp signed a four-year contract this week alongside Warsteiner brewery owner Catharina Cramer, marketing and sales manager Martin Hötzel and marketing director Jordi Queralt.

“Jurgen Klopp is a perfect brand ambassador for our non-alcoholic premium beers,” Cramer said.

“He is straightforward, authentic and close to the people. In particular, his passion is in line with our brand philosophy.

“He is a popular figure and we are thrilled that we will work together with Jurgen Klopp.”

A major advertising campaign featuring Klopp will be launched in April.

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsiuxim8vsM

[Sugar Ape]

Tony Barrett

 

Published 1 minute ago

 

Liverpool must change their transfer policy, writes Tony Barrett

 

There comes a point when optimism jars; when the potential that the future might hold is totally at odds with the reality of the present. For Liverpool, that moment arrived in yesterday’s demoralising defeat to Manchester United. A team that can’t do the basics defensively, which lacks physicality, and struggles to assert itself in the final third is not a team to take a big club forward, it is one that is ripe for change.

 

That yesterday’s events transpired in the way that they did will have come as no surprise to anyone who has watched Liverpool regularly since Luis Suarez somehow came to the conclusion that his chances of success would be greater at the Nou Camp than at Anfield. A crucial goal conceded from a set piece, an inability to take chances and a choirboy approach (six fouls in a home game against United should be an individual tally, not a collective one); these are recurrent failings. What happened was not a one off.

 

Not everything they did was bad by any means. At times, Liverpool’s interplay was both eye- catching and effective. In the first half their pressing and willingness to harry in groups prevented United from getting into the game and in the entire 90 minutes they restricted their opponents to one shot on goal, albeit one that Wayne Rooney punished them with. This was not a bad performance. It was, though, an inefficient, predictable one that provided another showcase for the scale of the task that faces Jürgen Klopp as he attempts to reverse 18 months of regression.

 

That Liverpool went into such a huge game with a starting eleven which had scored only half a dozen league goals between them this season borders on negligence, albeit not of the type that rests in team selection. As ever, Liverpool’s much discussed transfer policy continues to undermine them and for all Brendan Rodgers’ attempts to distance himself from the mistakes they have made in the market, the deals to sign Adam Lallana and Christian Benteke for a combined total of almost £58 million have his fingerprints on them and no-one else’s.

 

Everyone sees things their own way and Rodgers was guilty of doing that yesterday when he used his appearance on Goals On Sunday to paint himself as a victim of Liverpool’s transfer strategy rather than as someone who should take his share of the blame for the things that have gone wrong. He is entitled to his own analysis of the decision to sign Mario Balotelli - although that is at odds with the version put forward privately by others close to the deal - but the former Manchester City player is already yesterday’s story as far as Liverpool are concerned. He has been replaced by another forward who cost twice as much and is only marginally more effective.

Where Rodgers has a legitimate point is that it has been several years since Liverpool last had a team in keeping with their manager’s vision. Perhaps Rafael Benitez, who departed in 2010, would be the last incumbent to be able to claim that there was a stage, in his case in 2008-09, which was close to being exactly as he wanted it.

 

Since then, every manager who has followed the Spaniard has not been able to enjoy this luxury, a situation which now sees Klopp turning to Steven Caulker, an on-loan centre back, out of sheer desperation. Big games are getting away from them and injuries, of course, are a mitigating factor in that scenario, but Liverpool’s failure to replace the top class players they have lost with players of similar quality has not helped themselves or their managers.

 

In contrast to United, who have a match-winner in goal and, whatever the deterioration in Rooney’s all-round game, another in attack, Liverpool currently have neither and that undermines so much of what they do in the other two thirds of the pitch. The combination of an average goalkeeper with fundamental shortcomings and the lack of a prolific striker who fits their playing style means they are always at risk of losing, or not winning, games that they dominate.

 

Whatever Klopp’s skills as a manager and a coach, and his record at Mainz and Borussia Dortmund suggests they are significant, it is hard to envisage him overseeing a transformation as long as those issues remain unaddressed. The problem with that, though, is it requires Liverpool to return to the transfer market and rather than being the panacea for all their ills, in recent times signing footballers has tended to exacerbate their problems.

 

It is that, more than anything, that Liverpool have to change. With Rodgers in situ, transfer committee and manager failed to bring out the best in one another with dysfunctional horse-trading undermining the efforts of both and a cut and shunt team being produced that suited no-one. A look at the Liverpool side that faced United revealed four that were definitely signed by Rodgers (Nathaniel Clyne, Kolo Toure, James Milner and Lallana) and four that were recruited by the committee (Mamadou Sakho, Alberto Moreno, Emre Can and Roberto Firmino). Jordan Henderson was brought in by Kenny Dalglish and Lucas Leiva by Benitez. No one has ever laid claim to Simon Mignolet.

 

The team that Klopp builds has to be his own. That does not mean he has to get rid of every player he has inherited, but it does mean that any he keeps have to be retained because he wants them and not because Liverpool are unable to sign better ones. It also means that his influence on the recruitment process has to be greater than Rodgers’s was and that the blueprint he puts in place is adhered to without deviation or compromise.

 

If Jürgen Klopp was brought in to produce a team capable of playing Jürgen Klopp football he is going to need Jürgen Klopp players and at present he doesn’t have anything like enough of them. Unless and until that changes, a Liverpool team which has averaged 1.55 points per game since August 2014 will continue to be mired in mediocrity and setbacks like yesterday’s will remain unavoidable.

[JermainePennant]

Anything he does between now and the summer is a bonus. He's working with somebody elses unbalanced squad. He could do with some help above him this month, we badly need goals.

If that is what LFC fans think then if they are being fair they are going to have to change what they've been saying about BRs time here.He inherited a shitter squad and took 6 months to get them playing cl form, all I've heard the last few years though is that season was a failure.

[manwiththestick]

Here we go....

[dickie mint]

If that is what LFC fans think then if they are being fair they are going to have to change what they've been saying about BRs time here.He inherited a shitter squad and took 6 months to get them playing cl form, all I've heard the last few years though is that season was a failure.

 

He was on Sky on Sunday and not in charge at Anfield on Sunday because he wasn't good enough and got the sack and rightly so,and that's probably what most supporters think was the right decision.

[Lee909]

Only he didnt inherit a shittier squad. He inherited a squad with better players and left this shit tip after spending well over 200ml to build it.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Should never have sacked Rafa

[Russ Atmosphere]

 

 

A look at the Liverpool side that faced United revealed four that were definitely signed by Rodgers (Nathaniel Clyne, Kolo Toure, James Milner and Lallana) and four that were recruited by the committee (Mamadou Sakho, Alberto Moreno, Emre Can and Roberto Firmino).

 

I don't understand that at all. This was Ayre when the committee were formed.

 

 

"The structure - and Brendan is aware of this - is a more continental director of football-type structure, a collaborative group of people working around the football area," said Ayre.

 

"We don't envisage at this moment in time having a director of football per se but a group of people working with Brendan to deliver the football side of it.

 

"It is a whole range of people with a range of skill sets and Brendan will have a big impact into that."

 

Ayre denied that new signings not identified by the new manager would be imposed on the team.

 

"It is not a signing by committee, it is an analysis by committee," he added.

 

"But it is certainly not a structure where we would force any player on the manager, as an example.

 

"It is a very typical continental style with a collaborative of people qualified across various different areas of the football business working the best together for Brendan to be able to do his job."

 

How can Ayre keep his job when the failings are so spectacular?

[Duff Man]

If that is what LFC fans think then if they are being fair they are going to have to change what they've been saying about BRs time here.He inherited a shitter squad and took 6 months to get them playing cl form, all I've heard the last few years though is that season was a failure.

 

He inherited a squad that had Gerrard and Suarez in. Two world class players.This squad has no world class players.

[JermainePennant]

He inherited a squad that had Gerrard and Suarez in. Two world class players.This squad has no world class players.

Gerrard was injury prone when BR took over, he stopped being world clas after the title challenge under Rafa.Suarez was a potentially world class player who was a poor finisher, BR developed him and there are players here who could develop and reach a similar level.Most of the rest of the squad was average and now most of them are at midtable or relegation sides or are playing in leagues weaker then the championship.

[TheHowieLama]

Amongst the fire hydrant level flow of shit that you spout on a regular basis and even in the maelstorm that makes up this last post - this needs clarifying:

 

There are players here who could reach the level of Suarez?

[bossy]

Gerrard was injury prone when BR took over, he stopped being world clas after the title challenge under Rafa.Suarez was a potentially world class player who was a poor finisher, BR developed him and there are players here who could develop and reach a similar level.Most of the rest of the squad was average and now most of them are at midtable or relegation sides or are playing in leagues weaker then the championship.

Bin it Brenda

[manwiththestick]

Gerrard was injury prone when BR took over, he stopped being world clas after the title challenge under Rafa.Suarez was a potentially world class player who was a poor finisher, BR developed him and there are players here who could develop and reach a similar level.Most of the rest of the squad was average and now most of them are at midtable or relegation sides or are playing in leagues weaker then the championship.

Infinite monkeys and typewriters.

[Kevin D]

Baffling isn't it? Spitshine Tommy couldn't polish these turds.

I don't agree.

 

Jürgen Klopp is one of the great managers in the world and he's being paid upwards of 100k a week.

 

I think the 28,000 ST holders at Anfield have a right to expect his team to go all out until the end, and not call the season a write off 4 months before it finishes.

[Kevin D]

I'm receptive to the idea that Klopp needs time for his tactics to be effective, but we're not some piss ant team in Germany with no expectations.

 

We're 5 time European champions and getting embarrassed by journeymen on a weekly basis is something we cannot and shouldn't accept.

 

If changing his tactics in the interim is necessary to improve our current record of 3 wins in the last 11 games is required, then that's precisely what he should do.