11 Sep 2018 15:45:05
It may be a silly thing to say but I just watched Klopps pre match talk at the cancer game. I know everyone knows he has a lot of charisma, but it really is the next level in the term "aura".
Any room he is in, the people are automatically in the palm of his hand. Seeing non reds like Lescott and joe hart absolutely beaming ear to ear whilst he talks.
I'm only 27, is this the sort of aura Shanks had? Literally where as a footballer, you're just hoping he would look your way.

1.) 11 Sep 2018
11 Sep 2018 16:14:21
He’s the most influential German since. errrm never mind.

2.) 11 Sep 2018
11 Sep 2018 16:27:23
Mikey the guy you was about to refer to was actually Austrian.

3.) 11 Sep 2018
11 Sep 2018 17:07:49
Declan, it was still very funny. Good one Mikey!

4.) 11 Sep 2018
11 Sep 2018 19:49:43
I was going to say boris Becker 🧐😏.

5.) 11 Sep 2018
11 Sep 2018 20:23:01
I thought you meant Schumacher.

6.) 11 Sep 2018
11 Sep 2018 21:42:32
OP, Klopp is that engaging cos he is to some extent, an open book or at least, as open a book as he allows. When we hired him, I stumbled on a youtube interview he had given in German (subtitled in English) when he was a couple of years into his Dortmund tenure. I was smitten by what he had to say. About his family, his father's influence and his road to being a manager. He also spoke about what fuels his rage and fire on the sidelines. He said, "It is not your fear of failure that makes you successful. It is your will to win. This is what animates me on the touhline".

He also explains why he can be a bit prickly after a bad loss or bad performance. He said that he gets peeved when reporters keep asking telling him his team was poor, as if he was blind and couldn't see it for himself and needed them to continuously pointing it out to him. All in all, Klopp is very smart, witty, honest (to an extent in public) and nuanced in his comments, all things I love in people in general.

7.) 12 Sep 2018
12 Sep 2018 09:32:56
I think everyone likes Klopp. Even Everton and Utd fans will begrudgingly admit some admiration for him.

He just doesn't seem to get rattled by anything. I was actually thinking the other day that it would have been great to see him against the likes of Sir Alex at Utd; you have to wonder whether Ferguson could have got under Klopps skin, like he did so successfully with other managers. In a strange way, I suspect they'd probably have had a pretty good relationship.

8.) 12 Sep 2018
12 Sep 2018 09:21:41
Bill Shankly changed the club strip to all red and brought out his centre back Ron Yeats and invited the press to walk around the colossus.

He created an air of invincibility and lots of teams were beaten before they got out onto the pitch.

Shankly was a master manipulator and man manager. Klopp looks to have been carved from the same granite block.

We are pretty lucky to have Jurgen around LFC despite his previous indiscretions in transfer dealings and mix up over sorting out the keepers.