Klopp: Stepping down at the end of the season

[bizzle10]

Has Michael Edwards got a new club could do with bringing him back it would really help the new manager

[johnsusername]

You'd hope this will really make the players put in even more effort than usual. Hopefully we'll stuff everyone 7-0 until the end of the season. 

[BeefStroganoff]

So would the new players have signed knowing he was going after one season?

[Elite]

1 minute ago, BeefStroganoff said:

So would the new players have signed knowing he was going after one season?

Unless they have 'Klopp clause' in their contract it's irrelevant.

[TheHowieLama]

A Klopp out so to speak

[Code]

1 hour ago, Anubis said:

Watched about 30 mins of that press conference at 3pm.

 

Couldn't get past the fact that Hogan looked like a CIA villain at Langley from an espionage movie.

Not paid much attention to Hogan before, he impressed me today though. 

[Anubis]

2 minutes ago, Code said:

Not paid much attention to Hogan before, he impressed me today though. 

Yes. He came across well. Clearly has a lot of love for Klopp. 

[Code]

Just now, Anubis said:

Yes. He came across well. Clearly has a lot of love for Klopp. 

Dont we all?

[Anubis]

5 minutes ago, Code said:

Dont we all?

We do indeed. Outbof interest, Frode, who would you want?

[kemskem]

10 minutes ago, Code said:

Not paid much attention to Hogan before, he impressed me today though. 

Kept getting flashbacks to Good Will Hunting though.

[Jennings]

It's been a fuckling privilege to have gone on this journey with him. I am so grateful to him for bringing the joy back. 

 

It's a fucking great big fairy story.

Rocks up. Says he is normal. Tells everyone that if they want success they need to buck-up! Wins everything.

 

God bless, you massive fucking legend. Hope all your future endeavours bring you happiness. 

 

[Funkasy]

Thiago shows up for training and Klopp resigns. Strange times ahead.

[Lee909]

Getting concerned how the season goes now. Its either going to end great with cup and title challenges or it'll completely go to shit. Can't see any in-between. 

[Code]

36 minutes ago, Anubis said:

We do indeed. Outbof interest, Frode, who would you want?

 I want Alonso. I have thought he would be a future manager here since long before he left.

 

I was afraid the opportunity never would emerge though, because I actually thought Klopp would extend his contract. Something I obviously would love him to do. 

 

Now we just need to take our chance and get him in.  I think he has said earlier it would be a dream for him to become our manager. 

[Carvalho Diablo]

Tonight Matthew, I shall be ordering a massive fucking pizza, drinking a shit load of lager and randomly swearing at the telly.

 

FUCK OFF

 

CUNT

[manwiththestick]

15 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

Getting concerned how the season goes now. Its either going to end great with cup and title challenges or it'll completely go to shit. Can't see any in-between. 

Could have been the case anyway regardless of today's news.

[TheHowieLama]

Of the three "jobs" Alonso wants - we would be by far the most accommodating to any bedding in time.

 

Real would turn on him inside 6 months if they weren't flying and Bayern would expect the title straight off.

[Barrington Womble]

What I've taken from what he's said today, he was pretty ready to go after last season, but we didn't want to sack him (the fans and fsg both wanted him here) and he didn't want to leave us in that state. Once he's seen the foundations for the new team were in place, he's thought I just need to enjoy this and then get out. Fair play to him, his own health and wellbeing must come first and if his heart isn't in it, I could imagine he becomes half the manager. 

 

It's devastating news and something I've been dreading for years. He really is a genius, he's a wonderfully gifted football manager and then is a fantastic human being, which helps him drag every ounce of talent and effort out of the players, while simultaneously being the fella every one of us would pick to go for a pint with before anyone else on the planet. 

 

The next manager, no matter how talented, has impossible shoes to fill. I look out there and I've genuinely no idea where we would go next. 

[johnsusername]

32 minutes ago, Funkasy said:

Thiago shows up for training and Klopp resigns. Strange times ahead.

 

You saying we're looking at the wrong cultured Spanish midfielder who knows the club?

 

FSG - it's the greatest trick they ever played.

[Barrington Womble]

10 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Of the three "jobs" Alonso wants - we would be by far the most accommodating to any bedding in time.

 

Real would turn on him inside 6 months if they weren't flying and Bayern would expect the title straight off.

Aye, but in munich he'd have a club with no peers. In Spain he'd be with the stronger of the 2 elite clubs. Here before the challenge of the likes of arsenal and Manchester United, you've also got to ensure you beat 2 oil states and whatever the fuck Chelsea end up as and whatever money they seem to have behind them. This is the hardest gig of the 3. 

[Karl_b]

I love the honest and integrity he's showing in all of this but that's no surprise. I'm sure he's really excited about spending more time back in Germany with his family and young grandkid. Imagine having Jürgen as your granddad! 

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

Very surprising and very sad news. 
 

Klopp leaving will be a massive milestone in the history of the club. Just as him arriving was. The owners now need to run a process to get the whole management structure, all levels including CEO, sporting director and manager in place. Making the right choices and decisions there will be vital to the development of the club and team over the next 10 to 20 years. Yes, Klopp leaving a solid squad is all nice, but worth fuck all if the club fail on the above.

[redheart]

He would have had at least two more league titles without financial cheat and twice convicted drug cheat Guardiola

[Red Phoenix]

After clicking on a Klopp hashtag on twitter then finding my way to a Sky article shortly after saying he's off I'm now just shocked really. Got here to post something then just stopped for a couple of minutes as it sank in. I really thought that this squad was where he was ready to go for it for another 2 or 3 seasons, didn't expect this at all.

 

I hope he doesn't regret leaving this squad at some stage in the future though and if taking a break from footie is really what he needs then there's no point in him staying if it's not right for him.

 

Legendary manager and a huge gutter to find this out.

[VladimirIlyich]

I am not really surprised that an honourable man has had more than enough of a totally dishonourable game.