New Manager [Klopp Watch]

[Bender]

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[Chris]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/11918163/Jurgen-Klopp-will-have-to-work-with-Liverpool-squad-at-his-disposal-rather-being-handed-huge-transfer-funds.html

Jürgen Klopp’s arrival at Liverpool is not intended to trigger another era of reconstruction as the existing playing squad are given the chance to prove their worth under the new manager.

Klopp’s arrival, which is expected to be confirmed on Thursday ahead of a press conference on Friday – can be seen as the start of another Anfield revolution but it is the belief of owners Fenway Sports Group that it will be the catalyst to get more from the existing talent pool.

Liverpool believe that they have high-class players at Anfield who, with expert nurturing and the confidence instilled in them via Klopp’s celebrated methods, will start fulfilling their potential.

That was how it was supposed to work under Brendan Rodgers until he lost his way.

In Mamadou Sakho, Alberto Moreno, Nathaniel Clyne, Philippe Coutinho, Jordan Henderson, Daniel Sturridge, Christian Benteke and Danny Ings, Liverpool feel that they have the foundations for a squad that should be at least competing for a Champions League place this season, and one with the potential to win silverware in the years ahead.

The conclusion was reached several weeks ago that the quality was not being matched by results and performances. Klopp, 48, is seen as the man to restore the balance with these players rather than anticipate another £300  million investment over the next three seasons.

During the talks between Klopp, the FSG president Mike Gordon and the chief executive Ian Ayre, it was evident how well acquainted the former Borussia Dortmund manager is with the qualities of numerous Liverpool recruits.

There will be few surprises in the Liverpool squad for the new coach, and in some instances – such as with Brazilian Roberto Firmino – Klopp has spoken in glowing terms about the player’s attributes.

Although a period of familiarisation is inevitable, the hope within Anfield is that Klopp will invigorate Melwood and ensure no more overhauls are required. In future summer transfer windows Liverpool plan to be limiting their focus to two or three significant additions, recognising making seven or eight deals each season does not work and is not sustainable.

Klopp’s track record shows that he excels at making good players better – building a reputation on transforming promising youngsters into the world’s most wanted superstars. This is why Klopp has *always been so attractive to the current Liverpool board, and why it was as far back as January 2011 – when Roy Hodgson was relieved of his duties – he first became aware of the Merseyside club’s admiration for his methods.

They wanted him a year later, too, when he again immediately made it known he could not be lured from Germany. Although there was inevitable interest in Carlo Ancelotti this time, too, Klopp is the man FSG wanted to speak to when Kenny Dalglish’s tenure ended three years ago and it was inconceivable they would not pursue him this time. When the club make it known he was the first choice appointment on Friday, history will back them up. If ever a manager was perfectly in tune with the philosophy and preferred methodology of Liverpool’s current regime, Klopp is it.

He is expected to fly on Thursday to Merseyside, at which point a club statement will confirm what has now become one of football’s worst kept secrets since Rodgers’s dismissal on Sunday.

Over the next six months it will become clearer whether the problem over the last 12 months was really the quality of the recruitment, or more a consequence of the failure of the coaching staff to get the most from those players.

If it is the former, the ambition to avoid *another squad revamp will be *undermined. If it is the latter, Liverpool’s decisiveness in making a change so soon into this season will be vindicated, as will the much criticised scouts and analysts who remain confident they have bought astutely in the last few transfer windows.

[I, Ravel Morrison]

Now that he's more or less confirmed as the new gaffer I'm finding it all a bit surreal.

[The_weatherman]

Now that he's more or less confirmed as the new gaffer I'm finding it all a bit surreal.

Me too, I've been wishing for exactly for months, didn't really expect to happen, though we were going to be stuck in the Rodgers/Monk mould for a long time.

Can't wait for the international break to be over, even though Iceland still has two games left to finish top The last year or so I've been waiting for the international breaks for some decent football, but not anymore

[CanadianRed]

****ing over the moon with this. He just seems so perfect for Liverpool. I wish we were playing this weekend.

[I, Ravel Morrison]

Me too, I've been wishing for exactly for months, didn't really expect to happen, though we were going to be stuck in the Rodgers/Monk mould for a long time.

Can't wait for the international break to be over, even though Iceland still has two games left to finish top The last year or so I've been waiting for the international breaks for some decent football, but not anymore

I didn't even dare wish before . It's something out of the backpages coming alive.

[frank the tank]

So Klopp was their man from the beginning???? Back to when BR got the gig??? Maybe JK wasn't available during the summer....

i cant ****in wait for the tottenham match......id feckin love to be there...

i have a flight from JLA tomorrow morning as well......****in would love to see him!!!








Two dwarfs out on the pull, manage to score and take two woman home. Dwarf one has a case of limp-dick so he can’t get it up and to make matters worse, all night he can hear dwarf two saying “right, here I come again… 1…2…3 uuhhhh”. Next morning, dwarf one says to dwarf two, “how humiliating! I couldn’t even get an erection”. Dwarf two says, “You think that’s bad… I couldn’t even get on the ****ing bed”!
So the next night – the dwarf goes back to the woman from the night before except this time he’s carrying a little suitcase. As the woman lies back on the bed, preparing herself for a bit of a quiet night, the dwarf opens his suitcase and takes out four little peices of coiled spring.
He attaches one each to his feet and one each to his hands. Standing up, slightly unsteadily, he bounces first up onto the bed and then onto the awaiting woman. Up and down, up and down he goes until finally the pair climax in a shower of bodily fluids.
As they smoke a post-coital cigarette, the woman turns to the dwarf and says “Wow, little fella, that was the most amazing sex I’ve ever experienced! But a somewhat unusual technique. What do you call it?”
“Well, its a german method” replies the dwarf, ” It’s four-sprung-dwarf-technique

[Roboklopp]

[baitman]

Which one is you kennel?

hes the one next to neil.

[redmike65]

Just imagine if FSG had got Klopp back when they were first made aware of him. Still he'd never have left Dortmund back then.

Can't wait until the announcement - then I can start a thread on formations! Yeah baby!

[baitman]

just one more sleep... im too excited

[SB]

Just imagine if FSG had got Klopp back when they were first made aware of him. Still he'd never have left Dortmund back then.

Can't wait until the announcement - then I can start a thread on formations! Yeah baby!

Why wait. Do it now.

[redmike65]

Nah I don't want to wake up to the news that Alan Pardew has arrived in Liverpool to discuss terms.

[Leyton388]

It's still to surreal for me . I'm expecting Gazza to turn up with a fishing rod and a bucket of KFC at melwood tomorrow.

[I, Ravel Morrison]

Yeah, don't start any official threads just yet. A rando could just bump into him at JLA in the morning and tell a bad Vorsprung durch Technik joke and turn him off at the last moment.