When I see Kostas and Minnie on the team sheet or playing…I always think they don’t look beefy enough to fight for a ball, tackle, or beat anyone…but I suppose you don’t have to be bulky to play…just my observation!!!
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I haven’t looked at the finale of his last two managerial positions as I don’t want to. I love the guy, he’s bloody wonderful. I don’t ever want his success at Liverpool to end as he’s energy, enthusiasm and charisma personified. But I do remember a little about when he left Dortmund…
Are you really serious?
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Mainz bears some thinking about - did brilliantly, but the club just did not have the resources to compete. He got them into Europe anyway, but two(?) seasons later they were relegated - he left the season after when he could not get them promoted.
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This is a modern manifestation of those boring twats who used to say football players shouldn’t be injured when they are paid huge salaries to do something most people do for fun.
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That playing sport for a living is peanuts compared to working your fingers to the bone to put a roof over your head? Absolutely.
Anybody who’s financial security is assured is way down the pecking order when it comes to complaining about mental tiredness.
Don’t agree, but you are free to think what you want.
No question people get injured. Some get seriously injured. Some have career ending injuries. Some deal with the mild stuff better than others. Look at Suarez, often injured but needed to be medically dead to miss a game. Granted his mental toughness did have a flaw or two.
Im not sure this is right pal, there have been several stories about the pressure modern footballers are under paling into mental health issues; just because they dont have money to worry about, does not mean they dont have significant extraneous thoughts.
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Maybe, but they don’t have the key worry that keeps most of us awake at night. That’s a luxury I long for.
I don’t think the comparisons are entirely there. With that season he had lost Lewandowski and didn’t have any real funds to replace him. Götze had left the year before and I think that was a psychological blow for Klopp. That final season, Dortmund were dreadful in the first half of the season - relegation form stuff, but they did pick up later on.
Teams do have ups and downs, though. Personally, I think this team peaked in Autumn 2019 - they were running on adrenalin after that. After the season break in February we didn’t look as sharp and that was more noticeable after the Covid break. I’m not quite sure how you turn these things around but then that’s Klopp’s job.
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https://twitter.com/GraceOnFootball/status/1352557260543819777
Klopp actually addressed this in his press conference pre Burnley: "I think I heard somewhere I have to rebuild this team,
“The world is a crazy place now and not just because of the pandemic. No-one has time anymore. In football we know that, I’ve been in football long enough to know that you never really get time.”
He wouldn’t come out and say that he was planning an overhaul anyway, but it does feel like he genuinely believes this. With good reason too.
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I agree with that, there are notable differences with the Dortmund situation. But to your point about it being Klopp’s job to turn it around, it is until it isn’t. What looks most similar to me with the situation in Dortmund in that first-half of the season form is Klopp himself. They picked up after he decided to leave, with the decision to bring it to an end seeming to give him a mental lift.
In the first half, Mane took a shot which which ended up off target. But he got cleaned out by a Burnley defender a split second after shooting, while the ball was technically still in play. It was a late clumsy challenge. What’s the difference between these situations?
Barnes was never going to get on to the end of his touch. But I suppose the Mane type of situations will never get called back for a pen.
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I don’t really see the similarities tbh. But there is Corona. As I said a while ago, this is my biggest worry when it comes to Klopp, the emotional component.
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I guess I wasn’t expressing myself that well - there are lots of differences between the circumstances of the clubs at the respective times. It is the similarities in Klopp himself that I am commenting on - exactly as you say, the emotional component.
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The difference was one was on a Liverpool player, the other wasn’t.
The situation we find ourselves in today is one I’ve feared all season. Sooner or later it will wear you down, that we managed to stay where we were for so long was remarkable given the clear corruption we have faced all season.
If you allow yourself to be bullied and fucked over game after game while adopting a policy of turning the other cheek and keeping a dignified silence then eventually it will tell and that’s exactly what’s happened. We should have been calling these cunts out at every opportunity but as usual as a club we’ve bent over and taken it. The corruption could cost us massively if we miss out on top 4.
Does anyone in their right mind actually think a team that has finished 30-50 points ahead of most of it’s main competitors 2 seasons running has regressed that much? It would be insane to think so.
I also think Jurgen feels this himself and that’s why he looks the way he does right now. He can’t win, he knows he’ll be ridiculed by the scum media the minute he opens his mouth. Imo the owners should have got involved months ago and we should have called these cunts out for the cheats they are.
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“Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.” –Bill Shankly
Don’t necessarily agree that footballers don’t suffer stress but that quote has always stuck with me.
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One more reason to get rid of that virus shit once and for all asap. A bit of fist pumping, high jumping Anfield noise after a late winning goal might be enough to recharge the Jürgen batteries. 
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Well said sir 
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