devaney » Mon Jan 29, 2018 3:27 pm wrote:The same squad of players came very close to thrashing City and yet when we get beaten by the two teams at the bottom of the table the whinge committee blame the owners. We had more than enough talent available to beat the likes of Swansea and West Brom. We have a manager who is a one trick pony and he has absolutely no answer when it comes to teams that park the bus and counter attack. It has happened time and time again and it has fk all to do with the owners and you have to have the IQ of a brick not to appreciate that. Klopp gets paid £7.5m to sort these things out and he has failed miserably. He persists with Henderson as captain. No doubt he will start Moreno again now that he is fit. Klopp has a stubborn streak and it has cost us.
Klopp is not the type of manager that will go running for the chequebook at the first sign of trouble, he will work with what he's got and he won't throw his players or the owners under a bus to deflect blame from himself either unlike some managers I could mention.
He is an old school manager who believes a managers job is to take a bunch of average players and mould them into a very good team. In many ways he is cut from the same cloth as the likes of Shanks, Bob and Joe etc.
Unfortunately though it's not 1975 anymore, in the 70's you didn't have 24 hour rolling news sports channels, these days football is the new rock n roll where as back in the 70's rock n roll was still the new rock v roll.
The pressures on managers these days to get instant results is huge, De Boer barely had time to take his coat off at Palace before he was shown the door.
Jurgen has been here 5 windows and he has a net spend of -£30m, I don't care how good a manager you are, you are not going to be able to compete against the top clubs making a profit in the transfer market, this club needs to stop taking advantage of Jurgen's nature, just because he isn't naturally inclined to go running for the chequebook doesn't mean the club shouldn't give him the tools to do the job. This club needs to buy him the players he needs to compete. How can they take his best player off him and not replace him?
We won't get a better manager than Jurgen, our fans and our owners need to realise that.