Indeed. I deleted it and we should do the same for every of these.
Wouldn’t bet against it, things change very quickly in football.
If we turned to him now and said “Jurgen, we’re desperate…give us half a season to stabilise the club, you’re the one to do that, we need you”, I reckon he’d at least have a re-think.
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We were away for that. 
A lot of deluded people wasting their money if they think he’s coming back.
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Yup even when we hit rough patches we would go back home and recuperate.
Also he’s not coming back…
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Ha he’s living his best life. No way he’s returning to a shit show
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Probably right! But this leads to the worst part of the problem, there just inst anyone suitable available and we dont want to slip into a Manure type scenario, overturning manager after manager.
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There are plenty of good managers out there. They fucked themselves over because they kept employing shite ones and had no functional structure above them.
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Don’t go back! If Slot does lose his job it will be time for a new man, with new ideas and vision, waiting to make his mark.
One other thing on charisma, as people are contrasting Slot and Klopp. Slot is on a hiding to nothing there, and whatever he ends up doing in the game needs to be based on his own strengths. His one season so far yielded one Premier League title. Not bad at all.
For older reds, they will remember the move from Shankly to Paisley. Shanks was electric in his charisma. Paisley was softly spoken and very understated in comparison. He always looked uncomfortable with a camera on him and a microphone in his face. But the amount of trophies we won during his tenure was the best we’ve ever seen as Liverpool fans, even if he lacked in charisma compared to his predecessor. I know it was a different age, but I just want to have some perspective about charisma.
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https://youtube.com/shorts/H0RL0TwWaKE?si=2uqEjvlt7Q_yw-d8
This was Jurgens biggest attribute and one Arne should learn, he can’t be the same but players can be inspired.
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Agree with this, while in an ideal world many would love to see him back it would not be a good idea,particularly for Klopp himself, he was clearly worn out when he left, who would want to put him through that again, we know he gives 110%,and he would again..no! as has been said, that ship has sailed!
Jürgen wasn’t just a football trainer, he was the player’s mentor, advisor he was kind of like a Dad to them whenever they were down physcologically.
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Klopp with Gerrard in his staff somewhere? Stevie has been awful as a manager for the most part of course, but is it possible that if he worked closely with someone like Klopp for 4 or 5 years he would learn to do it properly and then take over one day? …fuck me I live in a dream world! But if it happened and was a success I have much more than a semi!
Stevie winning the league with us as manager would be just incredible…unlikely, but I’m allowed a fantasy!
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I don’t think it would be any more wonderful with Gerrard. To be honest, his public utterances leave me cold and I just can’t see him ‘learning to do it properly’ so he could reasonably be expected to stay around even if he managed a title winning side. I mean look at the shite Arne is facing so soon after winning the PL. There is nothing about Gerrard that would make me confident he would be able to turn around such a scenario.
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I agree with you and everyone else with a brain that it’s never going to happen because he’s shite. But in principle one of our greatest ever players becoming manager and winning the league, just like Kenny did would be amazing.
That’s a double-edged sword. That means he has trouble letting go and holds on to players longer than we should (Hendo/Fab/Keita). That also means he expends a lot more emotional energy than normal and consequently drains himself.
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Gerard had the opportunity to remain at LFC managing the youth team if memory serves… He had every chance to bide his time and watch Jurgen in action every day.
The fact he struck out on his own to go to Rangers was his decision alone… I wonder if he thinks it was all worth it now.
Showing his lack of experience/management skills at other clubs, has probably prevented him ever taking the reins at Anfield… and rightly so in my opinion.
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They couldn’t possibly be together every day because they coached different teams and were separated from Melwood to Kirkby at the time.
From what I know, Gerrard wasn’t offered any first team coaching role under Klopp. Of course, he could reach out and seek advice, maybe pop down to Melwood when he could. But it’s not like he had a role Arteta or Maresca had with Guardiola.
I don’t think Gerrard looks on taking the Rangers job and that era overall with regret. Recently, he said that he’s focused on surrounding himself with the right staff and carefully pick his next job.
My point was, that Gerard had a chance to remain part of the fabric that is LFC. We all get promoted in our workplace if we are any good at our job… Who is to say Gerard wouldn’t have moved up the pecking order over 4/5yrs, while watching the best manager in the modern game go about his business - To me, he had the opportunity of a lifetime to study the best, but he chose another path… one that will never lead back to Anfield judged on his CV of late..!