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Klopp to step down.

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Runub said:
Sky Sports News continue with the Kloppathon. Some of the crap they are coming out with is embarrassing.
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Yesterday that Kaveh bloke was droning on about how he thought Shipman had come to his decision at the same time the segment on the right of the screen showed Klopps own words saying why he was quitting. Sky are an absolute disease.
 

dublinbluenose said:
There's only one man for the job, with the experience and gravitas to succeed

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tommytowne said:
Worlds apart. Shankly was a giant the other is/was an egotist.
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Before we gloat to much about him going many of us has been here before , we were delighted when Shankly resigned and laughed when the images came through of fans crying outside Mellwood but our joy was short lived as he was replaced by the most successful manager they ever had.
The difference this time is the new man is unlikely to come from inside so there will be a period of upheaval.
Who is going to replace him with ? Alonso seems to be the favourite but he does come with a degree of risk as really he has not got a lot of experience to back up his claims for the job.
What ever happens you just know they always fall on there feet so laugh today but sadly nothing has changed it's still the devil's club .
 

paultheblue said:
Before we gloat to much about him going many of us has been here before , we were delighted when Shankly resigned and laughed when the images came through of fans crying outside Mellwood but our joy was short lived as he was replaced by the most successful manager they ever had.
The difference this time is the new man is unlikely to come from inside so there will be a period of upheaval.
Who is going to replace him with ? Alonso seems to be the favourite but he does come with a degree of risk as really he has not got a lot of experience to back up his claims for the job.
What ever happens you just know they always fall on there feet so laugh today but sadly nothing has changed it's still the devil's club .
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Oh so true.
When Keegan left I thought that would signal their downfall. Then they got King Kenny and we all know what happened next.
 
There will be no smooth succession. Klopp is a one-off. Rather than trying to lessen his achievements, it's far more painful for our red brethren if we address them as they are: monumental successes that easily bear comparison with the likes of Shankly and Dalglish. Klopp teams have made four Champions League finals. The pity is his one win came with Liverpool rather than his magnificent Dortmund side. Neither Shankly nor Dalglish managed to win Big Ears. Like Dalglish, Klopp was able to win the league with more than one club. For Kenny's Blackburn, read Dortmund in the era when the great Jupp Heynckes was clearing house with Bayern's greatest side in 40 years.

No, don't succumb to bitterness. Klopp is indeed a giant. And the problem for our red friends is that when a giant falls, lots of his adoring fans get crushed in the aftermath.

There is no Bob Paisley to step in now. Xabi Alonso will be the fashionable choice. The great thing about that is no matter how wonderful the job he is doing at Leverkusen this season is, he hasn't been there long enough for anybody to truly judge if this is a special coach in action or a mere one-off when Bayern are in transition. Klopp was doing it for half a decade at Dortmund and had made waves previously at tiny Mainz. He was one of the top coaches of the game by the time he left Dortmund. My heart sank when I saw where he was going.

Xabi? Bring him on. Nothing better than watching the next great hope being crushed by the legacy of a truly great predecessor.
 
They are back in the world of Brendan Rodgers now. That's where they were before Klopp - and Brendan was one of their better failures, given they had Roy Hodgson and a Suarez t-shirt wearing dotage-era Kenny prior to that.

In truth, they only hit gold with Benitez after we helped retire the king in 1991. Benitez was at the top of his career then, having won the Spanish League with Valencia and the UEFA Cup. Everyone else was second rate: Graeme Souness, Roy Evans, even Gerard Houllier: a decent manager but not quite at the league-winning levels of Benitez or Klopp who both trimphed when the Spanish and German titles were won only by beating elite Euro clubs over the long haul.

There is only one way I see the Klopp departure helping Liverpool. Guardiola will soon be without the only manager in England that could look him squarely in the eye. He might pack it in soon, too. Then again, with their money, Guardiola is almost irrelevant. So, no. No silver lining, "Red Men". Welcome to the dumper.
 

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