What a man! I will love him forever!
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Some things about his departure will firmly remain in my big book of life’s regrets. I wish he had won more trophies at Liverpool - he was robbed of two titles - but maybe I’d have preferred he won just one more in his final season. That celebration would have been seismic…
Still, I got the impression that he didn’t want to be a manager anymore, he spoke how he didn’t want to manage in his sixties. I just didn’t realise that his football was leaving as much of a toll on him mentally as it was leaving physically on his players.
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I still don’t believe the announcement was at the right time and the extra pressure was another contributing factor to the season derailing.
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There’s great humility in that. He clearly built a squad with huge potential but was honest when he said he didn’t have enough energy anymore. Now we can see what new energy has brought.
As for the complaints about timing. We’ve been over this 1000x and no one has suggested how it should have been handled better
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Jürgen Klopp is the classic example that if you do things right, even if you do not win as much as the efforts deserved, you can still be one of the best, if not the best, and adored as a legend by an entire city and loved by millions. That in my heart is Liverpool. You may not win but you do things right, work hard, and be humble and dig in, that is the underdog spirit that LFC inspired.
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He’s alright, yeah. Quite like him.
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exactly.
however, lets just accept the point being made for hypothetical reasons… and lets say if we could some how simulate the… rest of that season and the results were slightly better…the guy is just a human being, that was his mission statement…so if he made an error, he made it with the best intentions, and after the journey we had all just been on, it seems malicious to hold against him the timing of his announcement to leave the club…
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Love this channel.
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I don’t think there was any error in the timing of the announcement. It was big news, and in light of Klopp leaving at the end of the season, moves needed to be made. LFC is big news, so any sniff of any conversation with another manager could easily be picked up on. Backroom staff making plans for their next move would be picked up on too, etc.
So we took control, Klopp announced the news, he did a very heartfelt interview/announcement, it was note perfect.
What happened on the pitch was nothing to do with it. We fell slightly short.
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Love this. Miss him but he’s definitely not missing all the bullshit that surrounds the job
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Klopp on if Man City has its titles stripped: “We had this discussion when I left. I haven’t spent a lot of time in Mallorca because I am always flying around the place. But if it would happen, I told all the people who wanted to [come]: ‘Just book a flight to Mallorca. I will buy the beer!’ We’d have our own parade in my garden.”
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I am kind of glad he is free from having to bullshit
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He’s happy because he knows he built that team, but he’s also humble enough to know that a new voice was needed.
He may not have the trophies, but he is twice the manager Pep is and ten times the person.
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