Jurgen Klopp copying Sir Alex Ferguson was 'always likely' to cause a Liverpool collapse - except when it didn't. Arne Slot is throwing his weight around.
Jurgen Klopp copying Sir Alex Ferguson was ‘always likely’ to cause a Liverpool collapse – except when it didn’t. Arne Slot is throwing his weight around.You know the drill. Friday lunchtime. Peak time for online traffic. Huge midweek of Premier League football with some stunning results. Biggest story of the day?Jur gonna regret this
The two things are not particularly comparable – again, unless you were a tabloid football writer at the time of the Ferguson situation.comes in to regale us with the story of those tumultuous days, while awkwardly trying to link it to Klopp and Liverpool.‘As the taunts of gloating Everton fans rang in his ears on Wednesday night – ‘you lost the league at Goodison Park!’ – Klopp may well have reflected on the wisdom of his announcement,’ he writes.
Since then, the Reds have been beaten five times in all – with their hopes of a farewell quadruple scuppered by shock defeats against Manchester United in the FA Cup, Atalanta in the Europa League, along with struggling Crystal Palace and Everton in the Premier League. In that time, they won the League Cup final and advanced in both the FA Cup and Europa League. It was not until the quarter-final of the former competition and a 4-3 defeat to Manchester United that the wheels started to come off. And that was just over seven weeks and really a lot of fixtures after Klopp announced his resignation.
Nunez is not a laughably bad finisher at times because of the timing of Klopp’s exit announcement. Konate is not woefully inconsistent because of the timing of Klopp’s exit announcement. Salah has not become incredibly profligate after the mid-season interruptions of AFCON and injury because of the timing of Klopp’s exit announcement. Liverpool have not spent seemingly the entire season trying to salvage points from losing situations because of the timing of Klopp’s exit announcement.
Did the season-derailing mistake just not count then? Because it certainly sounds like someone expected plenty more to follow despite Klopp’s exit being ‘always likely to play on the minds of his squad’.It seems like a curious thing to do, to make any ‘demand’ of the team you are contracted to when trying to engineer a situation whereby they let you leave. Should probably stay on their good side really, try and keep things at least amicable.
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