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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"

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hullefc said:
Are Liverpool so fragile their fans’ chants could put them off?
A 4-1 win against the league champions and, ultimately, a win that was as comfortable as that scoreline suggested, theoretically should be good news all round for Liverpool but Jürgen Klopp was irked by one development. “Please don’t sing my name before the game is decided,” he said after imploring the home crowd to pipe down in the second half. “Immediately when the Kop started singing my name they [Leicester] were alone in front of Simon Mignolet. It’s a little like celebrating a penalty before you have scored.” He might well have a point; this is a theme for Klopp, having chastised himself for prematurely over-celebrating during the first game of the season against Arsenal, but one does wonder slightly about a team whose manager seemingly thinks they are so fragile that they can be distracted by fans singing the manager’s name. He’s probably just being overcautious but if they are so put off it also might explain why Liverpool are so infuriatingly inconsistent. What might Klopp have made of the Manchester City fans who cried “Olé!” in the 34th minute of the derby on Saturday? Guardian 12/09/2016.

Klopp tells them off for leaving early, now he his schoolmasterly telling them off for singing.
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His attempts to be dead edgy and left-field are really getting boring now
 

peteblue said:
Apparently there is also a problem because the 'corporate seating area' is actually higher than the seats to the side of it, this was one guys view....

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Were they singing, 'stand up if you want to see'.
 
Saint Domingo said:
The BBC fawning over them on MOTD extra is ridiculous though. 'They look like the most entertaining team in the league'. 'They're scintillating going forward'. We've played four games two of which they didn't win, sake.
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Nobody ever mentions how they've spent about £400m to assembly this strikerforce.

mane, firminho, lallana, coutinho, sturridge, origi that's a massive amount of money - they should be good in attack! But it's the same story as the last 3 or 4 years. Only teams silly enough to go and attack them do they actually beat. Sit back 10 men behind the ball and all those expensive strikers are scratching their heads and notch up 25 shots from distance on the BBC match stats.

Sadly for them, these teams who have a go make up about a third of their season games, whilst 2/3rds find them fairly easy to play against given their fragile back 5.
 
hullefc said:
Are Liverpool so fragile their fans’ chants could put them off?
A 4-1 win against the league champions and, ultimately, a win that was as comfortable as that scoreline suggested, theoretically should be good news all round for Liverpool but Jürgen Klopp was irked by one development. “Please don’t sing my name before the game is decided,” he said after imploring the home crowd to pipe down in the second half. “Immediately when the Kop started singing my name they [Leicester] were alone in front of Simon Mignolet. It’s a little like celebrating a penalty before you have scored.” He might well have a point; this is a theme for Klopp, having chastised himself for prematurely over-celebrating during the first game of the season against Arsenal, but one does wonder slightly about a team whose manager seemingly thinks they are so fragile that they can be distracted by fans singing the manager’s name. He’s probably just being overcautious but if they are so put off it also might explain why Liverpool are so infuriatingly inconsistent. What might Klopp have made of the Manchester City fans who cried “Olé!” in the 34th minute of the derby on Saturday? Guardian 12/09/2016.

Klopp tells them off for leaving early, now he his schoolmasterly telling them off for singing.
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says the man who celebrates every goal as if it's a 90th minute winner. It's all a bit contradictory.
 

apparently the coroporate seats that are on camera suffered a wonderful Wembley effect on saturday.

Basically hardly any of them came out for the second half kick off, they were too busy stuffing their faces inside still. So when liverpool are on tv every week, each second half should start with a big patch of fans missing
 

mikeh72 said:
I respectfully completely disagree mate, he's probably the most hateable manager they've ever had after Dalglish. An absolute attention fiend of the highest calibre, and on top of that a bizarre individual who makes me feel thoroughly uncomfortable.
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Im willing to bet you didn't feel this strongly about him when he managed Dortmund, you'll probably say you did but not many neutrals would believe you :p
 
longers said:
Im willing to bet you didn't feel this strongly about him when he managed Dortmund, you'll probably say you did but not many neutrals would believe you :p
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He wasn't plastered all over every sector of the british media when he was at dortmund.

He is now he's here - and he knows it. He can make as big a blert of himself as he pleases as far as that lot are concerned because even they're starting to realise that him and his antics are a bigger media draw than the club.
 
Whistlin' Dixie said:
He wasn't plastered all over every sector of the british media when he was at dortmund.

He is now he's here - and he knows it. He can make as big a blert of himself as he pleases as far as that lot are concerned because even they're starting to realise that him and his antics are a bigger media draw than the club.
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Is a very salient point...

Shankly always had a higher media profile that Harry Catterick who largely loathed the media...
The dipstick Rodgers got way more media coverage due to his lunacy than Martinez did... his level of nonsense paled into insignificance compared to the Brodge...
And RK doesn't appear to court the media in anything like the way Klippity does.

We're historically too nice, respectful and polite... while they sell their souls unashamedly, and in this (Sky/BT) day and age, sadly that pays dividends in raising their media profile and attracting even more to the cult.
 
longers said:
Im willing to bet you didn't feel this strongly about him when he managed Dortmund, you'll probably say you did but not many neutrals would believe you :p
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Haha ok mate. He's been a very peculiar and unwelcoming character since way before he rocked up at the rs. Personally I've always seen him as a cringey melt created that's been created by the lad bible

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