Liverpool assistant Buvac away for personal reasons for the rest of the season

[Shaggy]

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[Phoenix07]

Graeme Kelly also saying that Buvac and Klopp had a falling out, and that the former won't be back.

[frank the tank]

Hopefully they sort it out..... Doesn't sound likely though

[Liverpool]

definitely cant get a yes man in, think that rules Stevie out for now.

I know Klopp has really built Buvac up, but he has of achterberg and load of **** players so who knows how it pans out

[marcus50bucks]

What Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp will miss following Zeljko Buvac's surprise and sad departure

By Chris Bascombe
30 APRIL 2018 • 7:56PM

When Philippe Coutinho left Liverpool in January it was suggested it meant the break-up of the ‘fab four’.

If we take the words of Jürgen Klopp’s backroom team at face value, Anfield is in the midst of another band split with the departure – temporary or otherwise – of coach Zeljko Buvac.

“We are like a music band, each with their own instrument,” was how assistant coach Peter Krawietz, the other key member of the coaching trio, described their relationships to Telegraph Sport two years ago.

“Jürgen is the band leader and others are behind him playing the bass guitar or drum. It is very collaborative how we work. We’ve been this way since we started together. Many years ago a journalist in Germany said I was ‘the eye’ and Zeljko was ‘the brain’ and people repeat it. We could only laugh at this, see it as an invention and say, ‘so what is Jürgen'?

“We are all part of the team here but it is different in Germany to England. Here, as a manager, there are so many more tasks around the club so me and Zeljko try to help as much as we can.”

The idea of Buvac as the “brain” of Klopp’s operation has stuck as a memorable sound bite even if it has been exaggerated for dramatic effect. The Bosnian earned his reputation as a shrewd tactician after Klopp described him as a “master of all kinds of training”.

Liverpool’s dynamic style has evolved through training drills overseen by Klopp and Buvac. They became friends when team-mates at Mainz in the early 1990s and made a pact that whoever became a manager first would appoint the other as his assistant. When the time came for Klopp to take over at Mainz - implementing the style and methods of his mentor Wolfgang Frank, the former Mainz coach - he kept his promise and Buvac joined his staff.

The coaching unit followed Klopp to Dortmund and when Anfield called on the German, his first request was to hire Buvac and Krawietz.

Although in recent years it has been suggested the relationship between Klopp and Buvac was more professional than personal, and based mostly on the training ground, the presence of a figure with a forthright opinion, who was prepared to stand his ground without fear of losing his job, has been healthy, particularly in an industry where high-profile managers surround themselves with acolytes and yes men.

Evidently, the dynamic of the relationship between Klopp and Buvac has changed over the course of recent months, the Bosnian cutting a more withdrawn figure and feeling less involved in tactical briefings. He still does not speak English, which obviously affects communication with players.

Although Liverpool have ambiguously attributed Buvac’s break from first-team duties to “personal reasons”, there is no doubt those reasons are work-related. Liverpool say Buvac remains a club employee. That will be the case until such time the 56-year-old decides he cannot repair his working relationship with Klopp.

That it has reached the point where Buvac will not board the flight to Rome for the second leg of Tuesday’s Champions League semi-final is astonishing, given how hard Klopp and his staff have worked to bring the club to this point. The timing of this setback could not be worse.

But beyond that, on a purely human level, it is also extremely sad. As a matter of habit, possibly superstition, Klopp emerges from the tunnel before every game and offers Buvac a hug. He has generally been the first person Klopp looks to when celebrating a goal.

To say Klopp will be missing his ‘brain’ in the Stadio Olimpico is an overstatement. But his right-hand man will be absent and that is strange enough.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...vacs-surprise/

[Fredo]

Recently, however, the 56-year-old has cut a distant figure at Melwood and during first team matches. It is this behaviour that led to the coach stepping aside following Saturday’s goalless draw against Stoke City, rather than any specific argument with Klopp, but the timing of his exit represents a significant setback to Liverpool’s preparations for Roma.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/apr/30/jurgen-klopp-loses-liverpool-assistant-zeljko-buvac-rest-of-season

[-V-]

Unfinished business. Taught Godgers everything he knows and Brendan is now a trophy ****ting machine. Could be an option.

Jesus. How is a former Liverpool assistant manager now an assistant at Barrow ffs. Wtf.

[baitman]

Jesus. How is a former Liverpool assistant manager now an assistant at Barrow ffs. Wtf.

competition winners, chancer's and snake oil salesmen. blaggers the lot of them.

[calvoboy]

they knocked round to see if he was interested, but he was out out.

[Fosterbloke]

We all thought doom and gloom with Coutinho leaving and I reckon this will pan out the same.

[Harv]

**** him. Sounds like he's a typical Serb hot head that can't handle big Jurg putting him in his place and has taken his ball and gone home.

We'll be fine.

[dom9]

**** him. Sounds like he's a typical Serb hot head that can't handle big Jurg putting him in his place and has taken his ball and gone home.

We'll be fine.

That doesn't sound racist

[Fuzzy]

It's quite true though there are grudges, and then there are Serbian grudges.

[labourRed]

I'm less worried about this than i was when the news first broke. He looks pretty mardy at the best of times but i didn't know he didn't speak English... so it's not as if he's going to close to the players or anything. On a personal level it can't be easy living in another country and not knowing the language.

[meffin]

**** him. Sounds like he's a typical Serb hot head that can't handle big Jurg putting him in his place and has taken his ball and gone home.

We'll be fine.

Seemed to handle him for the past 17 years?