I don’t just think it was just injuries. I think the added pressure of Klopp going was just as important all you heard was doing it for Klopp.
I think we all felt that bit.
Also the acknowledgment that it was likely not to be brilliant this season. I guess we have to wait to see whether that is right or wrong
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Could happen again if it turns out that two out of Mo, Viril, Trent are leaving.
It is slightly different in the sense that Klopp is the figurehead at the top.
VVD is your closest in that sense and if I’m honest from his vibes that one looks far more likely than the other two.
Of course the arguement here seems to suggest it’s down to the club rather than the players.
Very odd for the club to move so quickly via some of its mouth pieces this morning which suggests Salah’s comments are more of a play than otherwise suggested.
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https://x.com/FlashScoreDE/status/1866004522134389106
https://x.com/Fussball_fc/status/1865411806644117759
“Gravediggers of German football”
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Makes you wonder if RB have a vision for taking over EUFA
No conflict of interest there…
It just seems as strange move to us mere mortals -
Must be more to it
I’m a simple sort! Loved Jurgen, and all that he did here, and I thought he had a keen moral compass that fitted so well with LFC, almost like a modern day Shanks.
He left, feeling burned out and needing to replenish. It’s a very human situation, and it just endeared him to me more. Sometimes we just look at the money in top level football, and fail to see the human vulnerabilities that are in play. Jurgen was out of gas and he needed to recharge. It was brilliant at to see him pop up all over Europe at this event and that, doing the things that replenish him that he hadn’t had much of a chance to do for a long time. He started to look younger as the weeks wore on, and it was good to see.
Then came the RB announcement. Hmmm…
As an English football fan living in America I wasn’t overly bothered. Jurgen is entitled to do whatever job he likes. It seemed, at first glance, to be a great opportunity. He would not be weighed down by the day to day, but would use his knowledge, experience and contacts to sync up a football group - ugh, but that’s the world we live in.
However… the German fans generally have a lot stronger view about RB, and the potential threat to their way of doing elite football, which to be fair has a heck of a lot going for it in terms of fairness and provision for fans.
In light of that, Jurgen is getting a bit of a shoe-ing from some of his own people here.
I think it should run its course! Jurgen is a grown up who knows what he is about. The reaction of the German football fans should have been at least somewhat anticipated. If he ends up stepping down from the role at some point, so be it. If he ends up helping the German game see something he sees, that will help its future, fine.
Personally, I think he will be tired of the RB gig quite quickly, due to all the hassle.
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Not from me. It’s just a job.
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Fair do. I amended to say “some of” his own people.
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we have a german lad on our team who doesnt object at all, he understands RB
infact, he mentioned being from the former east germany side of the wall, they had 50 odd years of catching up to do, so alot of the complaints are based in elitism…
i have no idea of the facts on the issue, and he has a hell of a strong accent so he might have actually just been asking where the toilet is…
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That East German argument cracks me up. There’s nothing East German about that Austrian ‘club’ nor did they ever have that in mind, they tried to take over West German clubs first - Leipzig was like the 4th or 5th choice and only because they had a World Cup stadium paid for by the German taxpayer in the city that no one had any use for.
And fans of East German traditional clubs mostly don’t like them either.
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Yeah Jurgen has tarnished his reputation big time with this RB shite.
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This whole ‘crosshairs’ thing is a tasteless incitement to violence and is completely disproportionate. We’re talking about a game for fucks sake.
I’m as passionate as any fan, but I don’t think anyone should die over football.
I don’t understand Jürgen though. He knows German football culture and has spent his whole career crafting an image of a man of the people who relates to the fans on the terraces. He doesn’t have any financial or professional need to take this position, so why do it? There are thousands of jobs in football that wouldn’t have tarnished his reputation.
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Perhaps he wants to keep himself, his children, grandchildren etc in the manner they have become accustomed to. Not that I’d agree with it, and certainly not consistent with being ‘a man of the people’, but it seems vaguely plausible. Otherwise yeah why RB when he claimed he’d never have gone to ManUtd for commercial reasons.
He wasn’t exactly paid peanuts by Liverpool. Add to that the media and image rights, plus his revenue from advertising, and he’s definitely got a few quid stashed away.
Unless he’s got some sort of addiction that’s used up all his savings. Teeth polishing, maybe? 
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Bobby’s got a lot to answer for.
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