Klopp was the reason I became a LFC fan. His charisma, leadership, and the way he changed the culture of an entire club. He did some beautiful things and seemed to enable a community to dream like they hadn't in a years
Slot is extracting more from this group by thinking differently and playing more cautiously but he is also enjoying success with this squad and this club because of the foundation that Klopp built both in the squad and the infrastructure to support it. I fell in love with Liverpool during the Klopp era. The club that did things differently, lived within their means and punched well above their weight. People forget that Klopp/ FSG spent like a mid table side. I remember when I heard/ read that Klopp was leaving.... it was like being in a state of shock for most of the morning and then grasping at straws like Xabi Alonso! to try and find some solace.
Klopp gave us confidence. As he himself said, he turned doubters into believers. The consequence was 9 years of success, of climbing up back into the top tier of European football. People so easily forget how fragile we were in 2015, when Klopp arrived. We were mired in mid-table English football. He transformed us and helped us rediscover Liverpool's DNA as one of the best sides in the world.
“Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory and who built up a family of people who could hold their heads up high and say ‘We’re Liverpool’.” Bill Shankly
I remember hearing the news about Klopp last year, it was like hearing of a death in the family, with a period of grieving afterwards. Slot has really helped with the healing :)
I remember your video when it happened, I remember you were nearly in tears. I was nearly in tears too. I remember feeling jetlagged because I had just returned home to Australia from the UK/NY and I remember feeling flat. But in hindsight now, it was probably for the best. He looked drained and had probably taken the club as far as he coukd take it given the restrictions imposed on him by FSG's lack of spending. Klopp is the modern day Shanks and lets hope Slot becomes the modern day Bob.
To me it's simple... We wouldn't be where we are if Klopp didn't do what he did... but, and this is actually a testament to how fucking good he is... he stepped away at the right time. I would have given anything for him to win another EPL, but we really couldn't have wished for more, particularly against an insane City side.
At this stage last year LFC were heading the EPL but Mo went to the AFCON cup & picked up an injury. He did not get back to his best in the remainder of the season. Injuries also hampered the run home to the end of the season & we simply ran out of gas. When you consider this was a brand new midfield & we had lost so much experience, you have to say that Jurgen did a brilliant job & had he been able to continue the project, this is actual;ly where I would expect us to be (If injuries were not too impactfull) Arne took on a team primed for success. I love his straight forward honesty & sense of humour & he has proved just how tactically aware he is with such brilliant adjustments dusring games.
This. Slot deserves some praise but really I think this squad is still very much Klopp's side and he left them with his mentality. I don't think we really know much about Slot in the PL until this current Klopp side gets broken up when players start to leave over the coming season or two and he has to build his own side.
So are we are going to forget kloppc/ ljinders playing player's out of position and using them incorrectly I'll mention a few names gakpo macalister, gravenberch not used correctly. The open chaos football poor defensive tactics and bye the way our players all returned for the final part of the season. Why did we run out of gas because of the intensity of klopp running players into the ground and his way of training. Klopp needed to go he let pep lijnders take control of training and coaching it was time for him and ljinders to leave new ideas were needed and we are seeing the rewards. Klopp knew his tactics were stale and made the correct decision to get out of here plus those stinking owners didnt make life any easier.
@@nglforbes And yet, LFC were top of the league. It shows that team performance is complex. Touch wood, this season Slot has not had to deal with too many player injuries especially to the starting 11. Also, playing Luiz Diaz as a center forward is not his position. Playing Ryan as a number 6 is not really his position either but he is performing brilliantly.. Back in the day, Jurgen played Gini in the 6 role & nobody would say that was his position but he did incredibly well.
@SamSzulman klopp was playing players like gakpo in positions where they was poor and not performing that's the difference with slot who plays gakpo as a left attacker because that's his position, gravenbirch could play the 6 position before he came to Liverpool go and check him at Ajax and at Bayern if and when he got a game grav as a 6 isn't a big position change. klopp playing McAllister as a single number 6 last season was criminality at its best awful . In fact gravenbirch last season was poor slot had changed these players.so give credit to slot. Klopp was finished with his stale tactics and made the correct decision to take himself and the that bum pep ljinders out of Liverpool. You mentioned Diaz that's slot having to find solutions..Jota as usual injured every season... Darwin nunez the less said about him the better not good enough so he has had to play Diaz as a nine because Nunez is so crap
Klopp gave the club belief once again and put the fire back into club and the fans. And rather than having one or two players carrying the team...Klopp built a squad of top players and left the club with a squad of top players, where a new manager doesn't need to rip apart the team like in the past and most clubs like to do!!!
Started watching Liverpool in 2008. Suffered for 8 long years before Klopp. He rebuilt our club, and that's why he is and will be the greatest Liverpool manager of the modern era. Idc if Slot or the one after him win 10 PL in a row, Klopp will always be nunber 1 for me
I find it equal parts funny/irritating when people use Jurgen's record in finals, particularly champions league finals, as a criticism. They act like because he's been in 4 and only won 1, that is somehow worse than to have been in one or two and won one, which it objectively isn't. It makes the whole idea of a knockout competition a joke, if getting to the final and not winning it is seen as worse than going out in the quarter finals every year over the same period of time, but winning it the one time you get to the final.
Agree with you. But it's about expectations and these people have very little grip with reality, especially supporting LFC. As LFC has a right to winning.
One of the moments that stands out to me most was when we played Norwich City in the early kickoff one morning. We went back and forward with them scoring, and in the end Lallana won it for us 5-4. It was the celebration where Lallana ran to him and Klopp broke his glasses (if I remember correctly). It was just a clear indication of the spirit he brought and the direction we were heading. The squad was still poor at that point, the game was a struggle but it signified better days ahead. Never would’ve guessed it at that time!
I think Klopp’s TIMING of his departure has proven to be perfect, and it will appear better and better as time goes on I think. As devastating as that announcement was, it was time for a shift in the team. And after last season equipping us with our midfield rebuild, he was right in saying the team was ready to evolve
i remember where i was too loz. i just woke up and i seen lfc tweeted something, thought it was a contract announcement but once i seen the video i was heartbroken like no other, he is like a football father not to me but to all liverpool fans and his legacy will forever live on
This video aesthetic + fashion sense is very 2000s: love it! On top of your well thought out opinions (which I may very well disagree with), your production is a great differentiating factor, Loz. Also, a very important point wrt historiography is general: how can we write history while living in it? It is not that easy, especially since we have not aggregated the stories of all the players etc. But we do know what we felt during Klopp's era. And biased as it may be, even mentioning our own, i.e., fans', feelings will matter when another, more "objective" chapter is written about Klopp a few decades down the line.
it was the genuius of KLopp.... he knew how he was and he made a decision and the kind of forethought he had and the sense he had .... the balls on the guy. Really this years success is down to him. Pep shoud've gone....as great as he was....maybe is .... he has decimated City's soul
There's not many managers who you can just look at and say they were definitely made for Liverpool. After Shanks there was one or two if you're lucky and then along came Jurgen and he was like Shanks 2.0
Klopp showed other managers how to leave a club when you depart. The Salah/VVD contracts I don’t care who was in charge we would be in the same situation cos of their age, FSG would NEVER sanction big money contract renewals for players in their 30s. In fact if Edwards had never left the club Salah/VVD are probably already gone cos we know Edwards HATES giving older players new deals ask Wijnaldum who was only 29.
I've always been a liverpool fan and then klopp also made me a dortmund fan. He was the dream manager for liverpool in my head and he did not disappoint. Could he have won more trophies? Sure but it's all about the experience that makes those titles mean more. Do you think city fans cherish their past 4 league titles as much as liverpool fans appreciate their first title in 30 yrs?
What I am really not liking is the disrespect towards Klopp I am seeing from online Liverpool fans. Slot is only doing this well because Klopp came into a mid table mess of a club that he had to rebuild and he transformed it. Klopp did so much behind the scenes which these fans just don't realise. He worked 15 hour days for his first 3 years every single day. Changed the culture, the sports science side of things, the sleep, the diets, he made sure it was him not the players who took on media duties as much as possible. Our analysis team were cherry picked they were so good, our medical department the same. He had all that to deal with but never blamed anyone. More than that though he loved us, he loved the city. I was fortunate enough to meet him, he would come out of the ground even at midnight (pre covid) and greet fans. He would spend nearly an hour meeting fans at the team hotel before games, fortunately I have this footage to look back on. Unless it's an ex player I doubt we'll ever feel the same connection between a fan base and a manager again.
Kinda echoes when shanks left. In came Paisley. Shanks was the personality, Paisley the quiet genius. Klopp rebuilt the club like shanks, Paisley took Lfc next level like slot is doing so far. A few more signings and contracts get sorted, and we can be unstoppable. March on reds.
Unfortunately mate we haven’t the ambition for that. Our best players are walking because the owners are cheap, and we have an absolute clown (Hughes) running things. We need to enjoy this season while it’s here
Anyone who remembers the abramovich era at Chelsea. Fair enough they spent crazy amounts, but the one constant was a good squad. Edward’s and Hugh’s job is keeping that squad competitive so no matter the manager they always have a chance. BTW Benitez football was the most boring😅
Klopp left cos the money players were paid was laughable from Liverpool and now Klopp basically manages 2 teams in the RB Group. He left us and who can blame him
I don’t, I literally said that Shanks represents that era and the boot room. Klopp is above Benitez and Houllier for me, though they were lovely managers to have!
you are deliberately overlooking the fact J. Klopp was NOT the sporting director of LFC and was NOT for CONTRACTS responsible , you are making things up to let the penny pinching liars and pretenders FSG of the hook . To disrespect and discredit J. Klopp with this kind of LIES are shameless and a disgrace......
I don't think I've told this story. . . . . Waits for 20 seconds to draw us all in. . . . . Fuck it, I'll put it behind a pay wall on my pareon. Don't be a tosser Laurence.
Klopp was the reason I became a LFC fan. His charisma, leadership, and the way he changed the culture of an entire club. He did some beautiful things and seemed to enable a community to dream like they hadn't in a years
How old are you if i can ask?
Who did you support before, Peter?
It doesn't matter what people say when you arrive, what matters is what they say when you leave , Jurgen Klopp
Slot is extracting more from this group by thinking differently and playing more cautiously but he is also enjoying success with this squad and this club because of the foundation that Klopp built both in the squad and the infrastructure to support it. I fell in love with Liverpool during the Klopp era. The club that did things differently, lived within their means and punched well above their weight. People forget that Klopp/ FSG spent like a mid table side.
I remember when I heard/ read that Klopp was leaving.... it was like being in a state of shock for most of the morning and then grasping at straws like Xabi Alonso! to try and find some solace.
Klopp gave us confidence. As he himself said, he turned doubters into believers. The consequence was 9 years of success, of climbing up back into the top tier of European football.
People so easily forget how fragile we were in 2015, when Klopp arrived. We were mired in mid-table English football. He transformed us and helped us rediscover Liverpool's DNA as one of the best sides in the world.
“We seem to think we can tell history in the moment” what a quote Laurence
“Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory and who built up a family of people who could hold their heads up high and say ‘We’re Liverpool’.”
Bill Shankly
I remember hearing the news about Klopp last year, it was like hearing of a death in the family, with a period of grieving afterwards. Slot has really helped with the healing :)
I remember your video when it happened, I remember you were nearly in tears. I was nearly in tears too. I remember feeling jetlagged because I had just returned home to Australia from the UK/NY and I remember feeling flat. But in hindsight now, it was probably for the best. He looked drained and had probably taken the club as far as he coukd take it given the restrictions imposed on him by FSG's lack of spending. Klopp is the modern day Shanks and lets hope Slot becomes the modern day Bob.
Yeah, feels weird watching it back now huh?
To me it's simple... We wouldn't be where we are if Klopp didn't do what he did... but, and this is actually a testament to how fucking good he is... he stepped away at the right time.
I would have given anything for him to win another EPL, but we really couldn't have wished for more, particularly against an insane City side.
At this stage last year LFC were heading the EPL but Mo went to the AFCON cup & picked up an injury. He did not get back to his best in the remainder of the season. Injuries also hampered the run home to the end of the season & we simply ran out of gas.
When you consider this was a brand new midfield & we had lost so much experience, you have to say that Jurgen did a brilliant job & had he been able to continue the project, this is actual;ly where I would expect us to be (If injuries were not too impactfull)
Arne took on a team primed for success. I love his straight forward honesty & sense of humour & he has proved just how tactically aware he is with such brilliant adjustments dusring games.
This. Slot deserves some praise but really I think this squad is still very much Klopp's side and he left them with his mentality. I don't think we really know much about Slot in the PL until this current Klopp side gets broken up when players start to leave over the coming season or two and he has to build his own side.
So are we are going to forget kloppc/ ljinders playing player's out of position and using them incorrectly I'll mention a few names gakpo macalister, gravenberch not used correctly. The open chaos football poor defensive tactics and bye the way our players all returned for the final part of the season. Why did we run out of gas because of the intensity of klopp running players into the ground and his way of training. Klopp needed to go he let pep lijnders take control of training and coaching it was time for him and ljinders to leave new ideas were needed and we are seeing the rewards. Klopp knew his tactics were stale and made the correct decision to get out of here plus those stinking owners didnt make life any easier.
@@nglforbes And yet, LFC were top of the league. It shows that team performance is complex. Touch wood, this season Slot has not had to deal with too many player injuries especially to the starting 11.
Also, playing Luiz Diaz as a center forward is not his position. Playing Ryan as a number 6 is not really his position either but he is performing brilliantly..
Back in the day, Jurgen played Gini in the 6 role & nobody would say that was his position but he did incredibly well.
@SamSzulman klopp was playing players like gakpo in positions where they was poor and not performing that's the difference with slot who plays gakpo as a left attacker because that's his position, gravenbirch could play the 6 position before he came to Liverpool go and check him at Ajax and at Bayern if and when he got a game grav as a 6 isn't a big position change. klopp playing McAllister as a single number 6 last season was criminality at its best awful . In fact gravenbirch last season was poor slot had changed these players.so give credit to slot. Klopp was finished with his stale tactics and made the correct decision to take himself and the that bum pep ljinders out of Liverpool. You mentioned Diaz that's slot having to find solutions..Jota as usual injured every season... Darwin nunez the less said about him the better not good enough so he has had to play Diaz as a nine because Nunez is so crap
Klopp gave the club belief once again and put the fire back into club and the fans. And rather than having one or two players carrying the team...Klopp built a squad of top players and left the club with a squad of top players, where a new manager doesn't need to rip apart the team like in the past and most clubs like to do!!!
Klopp is the only person I emotionally connect to in football more than to players and football itself.
Started watching Liverpool in 2008. Suffered for 8 long years before Klopp. He rebuilt our club, and that's why he is and will be the greatest Liverpool manager of the modern era. Idc if Slot or the one after him win 10 PL in a row, Klopp will always be nunber 1 for me
I find it equal parts funny/irritating when people use Jurgen's record in finals, particularly champions league finals, as a criticism. They act like because he's been in 4 and only won 1, that is somehow worse than to have been in one or two and won one, which it objectively isn't. It makes the whole idea of a knockout competition a joke, if getting to the final and not winning it is seen as worse than going out in the quarter finals every year over the same period of time, but winning it the one time you get to the final.
Agree with you. But it's about expectations and these people have very little grip with reality, especially supporting LFC. As LFC has a right to winning.
LFC are regularly in finals and fans obviously have expectations naturally installed but a vast majority of true fans remain humble imo…
Klopp turned Doubters to Believers, he's one of our best mangers in years
One of the moments that stands out to me most was when we played Norwich City in the early kickoff one morning. We went back and forward with them scoring, and in the end Lallana won it for us 5-4. It was the celebration where Lallana ran to him and Klopp broke his glasses (if I remember correctly).
It was just a clear indication of the spirit he brought and the direction we were heading. The squad was still poor at that point, the game was a struggle but it signified better days ahead. Never would’ve guessed it at that time!
I think Klopp’s TIMING of his departure has proven to be perfect, and it will appear better and better as time goes on I think. As devastating as that announcement was, it was time for a shift in the team. And after last season equipping us with our midfield rebuild, he was right in saying the team was ready to evolve
i remember where i was too loz. i just woke up and i seen lfc tweeted something, thought it was a contract announcement but once i seen the video i was heartbroken like no other, he is like a football father not to me but to all liverpool fans and his legacy will forever live on
This video aesthetic + fashion sense is very 2000s: love it! On top of your well thought out opinions (which I may very well disagree with), your production is a great differentiating factor, Loz.
Also, a very important point wrt historiography is general: how can we write history while living in it? It is not that easy, especially since we have not aggregated the stories of all the players etc. But we do know what we felt during Klopp's era. And biased as it may be, even mentioning our own, i.e., fans', feelings will matter when another, more "objective" chapter is written about Klopp a few decades down the line.
it was the genuius of KLopp.... he knew how he was and he made a decision and the kind of forethought he had and the sense he had .... the balls on the guy. Really this years success is down to him. Pep shoud've gone....as great as he was....maybe is .... he has decimated City's soul
There's not many managers who you can just look at and say they were definitely made for Liverpool. After Shanks there was one or two if you're lucky and then along came Jurgen and he was like Shanks 2.0
Fishbowl lens is back. 😂
Not really it's just a vignette.
Thought you'd struck a deal Loz😂 Saw you in studios again!. Back on the run from the footballing authorities again😊
Klopp showed other managers how to leave a club when you depart. The Salah/VVD contracts I don’t care who was in charge we would be in the same situation cos of their age, FSG would NEVER sanction big money contract renewals for players in their 30s. In fact if Edwards had never left the club Salah/VVD are probably already gone cos we know Edwards HATES giving older players new deals ask Wijnaldum who was only 29.
Woah. This is the stuff.
I've always been a liverpool fan and then klopp also made me a dortmund fan. He was the dream manager for liverpool in my head and he did not disappoint. Could he have won more trophies? Sure but it's all about the experience that makes those titles mean more. Do you think city fans cherish their past 4 league titles as much as liverpool fans appreciate their first title in 30 yrs?
What I am really not liking is the disrespect towards Klopp I am seeing from online Liverpool fans. Slot is only doing this well because Klopp came into a mid table mess of a club that he had to rebuild and he transformed it. Klopp did so much behind the scenes which these fans just don't realise. He worked 15 hour days for his first 3 years every single day. Changed the culture, the sports science side of things, the sleep, the diets, he made sure it was him not the players who took on media duties as much as possible. Our analysis team were cherry picked they were so good, our medical department the same. He had all that to deal with but never blamed anyone. More than that though he loved us, he loved the city. I was fortunate enough to meet him, he would come out of the ground even at midnight (pre covid) and greet fans. He would spend nearly an hour meeting fans at the team hotel before games, fortunately I have this footage to look back on. Unless it's an ex player I doubt we'll ever feel the same connection between a fan base and a manager again.
Kinda echoes when shanks left. In came Paisley. Shanks was the personality, Paisley the quiet genius. Klopp rebuilt the club like shanks, Paisley took Lfc next level like slot is doing so far. A few more signings and contracts get sorted, and we can be unstoppable. March on reds.
Unfortunately mate we haven’t the ambition for that. Our best players are walking because the owners are cheap, and we have an absolute clown (Hughes) running things. We need to enjoy this season while it’s here
@ncb9354 bang on mate. Mistakes of 2020 being made again, not building/ refreshing from position of strength. Cheers fsg.
Great channel YNWA
Slot is Tim Cook to Klopp's Steve Jobs
Brilliant video. We witnessed a super hero in the form of a manager with Klopp 🦸♂️
There's a police helicopter circling above him
Anyone who remembers the abramovich era at Chelsea. Fair enough they spent crazy amounts, but the one constant was a good squad. Edward’s and Hugh’s job is keeping that squad competitive so no matter the manager they always have a chance.
BTW Benitez football was the most boring😅
Surely Klopp should get a statue at Anfield right?
Do you think that Slot can become the Paisley to Klopp's Shankly?
I hope so!
We need a bigger Mountain than Mt. Rushmore.
No way you can leave Psidley out of that list.
Imagine where we’d be if Richard Hughes had been as clever with our signings as we had been in the management appointment
Probably top of the league. One can dream, right?
I’m so sad Rafa didn’t win the league - it was what he/we needed to push on
mmm
Klopp left cos the money players were paid was laughable from Liverpool and now Klopp basically manages 2 teams in the RB Group. He left us and who can blame him
No take on what he's currently doing?
Did you just defend FSG....
Putting context on what people do is not defence. It’s understanding why people act the way they do.
Looks like Laurence is homeless again.
What is the point of this video? Makes no sense, leave the man alone.
Great Video Loz
You cannot seriously put Klopp ahead of Paisley or Fagan. I would put Klopp in a second tier with the likes of Gerard Houllier and Rafael Benitez.
I don’t, I literally said that Shanks represents that era and the boot room. Klopp is above Benitez and Houllier for me, though they were lovely managers to have!
you are deliberately overlooking the fact J. Klopp was NOT the sporting director of LFC and was NOT for CONTRACTS responsible , you are making things up to let the penny pinching liars and pretenders FSG of the hook . To disrespect and discredit J. Klopp with this kind of LIES are shameless and a disgrace......
I don't think I've told this story. . . . . Waits for 20 seconds to draw us all in. . . . . Fuck it, I'll put it behind a pay wall on my pareon.
Don't be a tosser Laurence.