New Manager [Klopp Watch]

[frank the tank]

What has to be considered is the poor quality of the Premier League at the moment and thats what increases our chances of doing something extraordinary this season.

Add to that an exciting bunch of attacking players and a defence that under a new coach should can only improve.

Klopp will at the very least get the place buzzing and its the perfect injection before our next series of games.

We have played Arsenal, Mancs & Everton away already which are three of the toughest 6 fixtures of the season.

You just never know, but momentum is a wonderful thing.

stranger things have happened. Also, i think people underestimate the quality of our squad. If Moreno can be thought / instructed to defend a bit better, then we have 2 full backs that are as good as anyone in the league. Sakho is very good. In midfield then henderson and milner are very very good premier league players. Emre Can has big potential too. Lucas and Joe Allen are solid players. Coutinho is potentially world class. And Sturridge and Benteke will score goals in the PL. Ings too. And perhaps Firmino can come into the team and offer something.

I actually think we have a very good squad. The strenght in depth is okay as well so i wouldnt be surprised to see us do very well.

[Norbs]

https://twitter.com/viktorfagerlfc/s...15950534160384

Ball pit and bouncy castle?

[dom9]

Haha, Slinks has been booed off the pitch. An est first.

[Corndog]

I think on the contrary the quality in the premierleague has never been higher.

I don't expect miracles or instant results. I'd actually be content with better performances more so rather than necessarily results. Tired of seeing games where the team never really looks like scoring and lacks cohesion.

[EwarWoo]

Someone on the radio this morning said we were basically getting the Anti Mourinho

I like that

[Bender]

Not sure if this has been mentioned......
[ame]https://twitter.com/JanAageFjortoft/status/651668710063755264[/ame]

[Yozza]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34454474

Jurgen Klopp: Liverpool fan begs German to come to Anfield in 2013

Watch Jurgen Klopp's reaction to freelance filmmaker and Liverpool fan Ashish Sharma jokingly begging him to join the Reds back in February 2013.

Klopp, 48, who is favourite for the vacant manager's position at Anfield , was being interviewed for the BBC during his time as Borussia Dortmund boss.

The German is favourite to take over from Brendan Rodgers, who was sacked on Sunday after three and a half years in charge at Liverpool.

[dww]

Raphael Honigstein makes an interesting point in the Guardian about the difficulty of getting players fit enough to play the type of football Dortmund did without a winter break. I suppose what it means is that he will need to be better at using the squad.

Exciting but I do share some of Slinks reserve. It is going to be hard to make a huge impact straight off. Hopefully though the change in mood around the team will be enough to get us over the initial hurdles.

[Yozza]

Someone on the radio this morning said we were basically getting the Anti Mourinho

So in effect...

Someone who is likeable
Someone who is funny
Someone who is passionate
Someone who won't throw his players / doctors under a bus
Someone who won't need billions to make us winners (hopefully!)

& most importantly not a cunt?

He'll do.

[RichC]

Just have to say I'm happily surprised to see us linked with Ancelotti & Klopp. I didn't realistically expect we'd have a chance with either. I'm guessing most others couldn't, in particular rival fans so I can just imagine the fume

Even more amazing is we are getting the dream appointment that everyone wants. Every backer of Rodgers, even when the team was basically in flames & crumbling to ashes had one solitary argument left, that being if we let Rodgers go what were we letting ourselves in for? Out of the frying pan & into the fire with an even less experienced coach than Brendan?

Even the most ardent opposers to the sacking of Rodgers have to accept at this stage that letting him go was the right decision if we land Klopp.

Are you Dan Brown?

Of course letting Rodgers go made perfect sense when there is a clear plan in place of who to replace him with. I think the main concern was that we'd jettisoning him without having something in place.

FSG have seemingly handled this very, very well.

[Vermilion]

Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool coaching team: Who will the German bring to Anfield?With Liverpool closing on a deal to make Jurgen Klopp their new manager, we look at the backroom team the German may bring with him to Anfield.

Liverpool's owners, the Fenway Sports Group, are expected to allow Klopp to hire his own assistants, likely to comprise of those who worked alongside him during his seven years at the Westfalenstadion.

These are Klopp's most trusted lieutenants who could follow him to Merseyside if he becomes Liverpool boss:
Peter Krawietz is Klopp's video analyst and chief scout


Krawietz would be one of Klopp's two main assistants at Liverpool having worked alongside him at both Mainz and then Borussia Dortmund.

The 43-year-old - who never played professional football - specialises as a video analyst concentrating on his own team, as well as the opposition, while he has also been Klopp's chief scout during the course of the last 14 years.

Described by former Dortmund midfielder Paul Lambert as being "very good" at his job, Krawietz was promoted to be Klopp's assistant coach at Dortmund.

"I also liaise with the amateurs and youth squad, and tell the people in charge what's important to the head coach," is how he described part of his job at the Westfalenstadion.


Klopp and his trusted right-hand man Zeljko Buvac, aka 'The Brain', during their time together at Dortmund




Buvac is Klopp's other key coaching ally, with the pair having known each other since 1992 when they were team-mates at Mainz.

Buvac hung up his boots in 1998, managing SC Neukirchen with little success for three years until Klopp appointed him as his assistant when he took over at the Coface Arena in 2001, before then following him to Dortmund seven years later.

The Bosnian - currently head coach of the Republika Srpska national team - is Klopp's right-hand man in charge of training sessions and is known as 'The Brain' due to his expert tactical knowledge of the game.

"Zeljko is a football genius, a master of every practice drill," Klopp says of his close friend, while Lambert called the 54-year-old: "Very quiet, but excellent. I can understand why Jurgen calls him that ['The Brain']. I have seen him working; he does not say much, but is very astute on the game."

Dortmund midfielder Nuri Sahin, who also spent a period on loan at Liverpool, says the duo have a telepathic relationship.

"Zeljko Buvac is basically Klopp's twin," Sahin told the Bundesliga website. "Both of them see football in exactly the same way."

Klopp, Krawietz and Buvac have formed a hugely successful partnership at Mainz and Dortmund since 2001, with Lambert saying of the trio: "They are an excellent team. You can see on the pictures just how close they are. If the three of them come over, then I think they will be a great fit for Liverpool."

However, Klopp may also want to try and persuade two other members of his coaching setup at Dortmund to join him should he agree to take the vacant manager's position at Anfield.

Wolfgang de Beer.


De Beer kept goal for Dortmund for 15 years before a serious knee injury forced him to hang up his gloves in 2001, with the German going on to become the Bundesliga club's goalkeeping coach a year later.

The 51-year-old stayed at the Signal Iduna Park following Klopp's departure at the end of last season, so it is not known whether he would follow him to Merseyside or not.

Andreas Beck.


Klopp brought Beck to Dortmund as one of the club's three main fitness coaches in 2012, a position he had held for the previous five years at 1.FC Nurnberg, with his main responsibilities being to warm the players up before training and focusing on their rehabilitation.

Again, it is not known if Klopp intends to bring the 39-year-old with him to Merseyside should he agree to become the Reds' next boss.

[Alex]

Are you Dan Brown?

Of course letting Rodgers go made perfect sense when there is a clear plan in place of who to replace him with. I think the main concern was that we'd jettisoning him without having something in place.

FSG have seemingly handled this very, very well.

This isnt a comment on you. Just an example of something I have noticed.

When things go well, its the faceless FSG who get credit. But when its perceived to go wrong its Ayre or Mike Gordon. Usually Ayre as he seems to be a lightening Rod for fans complaints.

[RichC]

I think its been said. But anything other than Klopp is going to disappoint me now.

He might have his weaknesses (name me one manager that doesnt) But hes damn exciting!

Someone on the radio this morning said we were basically getting the Anti Mourinho

Feels a bit like the Rafa appointment but probably more important for the club and where we go from here than back then.

I don't expect everything to suddenly be perfect but he'll get the supporters back on side and hopefully turn Anfield into back into a really hostile ground for the away teams to come and play

[RichC]

This isnt a comment on you. Just an example of something I have noticed.

When things go well, its the faceless FSG who get credit. But when its perceived to go wrong its Ayre or Mike Gordon. Usually Ayre as he seems to be a lightening Rod for fans complaints.

I see them as the same thing to be honest - Ayre I actually think is good at his job, the grief he gets is ridiculous based on limited knowledge of what he actually does at LFC.

[dww]

Krawietz would be one of Klopp's two main assistants at Liverpool having worked alongside him at both Mainz and then Borussia Dortmund.

The 43-year-old - who never played professional football - specialises as a video analyst concentrating on his own team, as well as the opposition, while he has also been Klopp's chief scout during the course of the last 14 years.

So he specializes in all of the aspects of video analysis then?

Obviously this is a far from in depth piece of research but at a very superficial level you do wonder how he will interact with the more statistical elements of the transfer committee. It could either be a big leap forward in terms of people on the same wavelength or another source of tension.

Described by former Dortmund midfielder Paul Lambert as being "very good" at his job, Krawietz was promoted to be Klopp's assistant coach at Dortmund.

What a staggeringly informative quote