28 Jan 2020 15:25:02
well yesterday I wanted Klopp to play more of the first players that needed the minutes to get them more up to speed and for us to have a greater chance to get through to the next round. But after all the stick Klopp is getting am glad his sticking to his guns and the Fa can do one. and after listen to him today saying they was not at the meeting that made the decision, Good on him have a good break as for the argument about the money for lower league teams hoping to get a cup tie at one of the Big teams they should run the club properly rather than hoping to win the lottery of a cup tie. there is plenty of teams out there that do. I see the stick we was getting last week for the women's team but I don't get why the premier teams should hold the whole of English football up. I know this sounds like a total change of heart from my views yesterday but I just wanted us to win and that's it.
YNWA.

28 Jan 2020 17:16:51
Imo he's doing it to prove a point. If the premier league is willing to give the players a break then the fa should respect it, not klopps fault they made it more complicated than it should be. I bet this problem doesn't happen next year and the premier league and FA will learn from their mistakes. I have a solution for the winter break, scrap two of the endless international friendlies they have during the season and that will open up abit of space in the fixture congestion.

28 Jan 2020 17:42:38
Great to have principals and I admire him for sticking to them but if we lose the replay the only people that lose out are the fans and another year without a decent cup run.

Nobody else cares.

28 Jan 2020 18:19:33
SpecialK, “another year without a decent cup run”. Is getting to the League Cup final 2015/ 16, Europa League final 2015/ 16, Champions League final 2017/ 18 and Champions League 2018/ 19 not enough for you then?

28 Jan 2020 18:38:04
Wirral check your history I'm talking of domestic cups, 2015 league cup run was 5 years ago and mostly under Brendan Rodgers.

28 Jan 2020 19:24:20
Wirral wonder, I think he means a domestic cup run and I got one would like to take it seriously for once. We should be trying to win everything, that’s what great teams do and that’s how they’re judged in my opinion. We are a great team so we should be playing to win everything.

28 Jan 2020 20:35:14
SpecialK, Pegleg - guys, I really believe that winning the Premier League and the Champions League is the measure of a great team and the League Cup and FA Cup are way down my list of priorities. I would not want us to jeopardise our chances of winning either the PL or the CL by over-playing our first team squad members in pursuit of an extended run in either domestic cup. Of course, this is just my opinion and you guys are quite entitled to have other priorities.

28 Jan 2020 20:55:30
Klopp was brought in to win the PL, end of. Champions league is and always will be a priority. Sadly we haven't had the squad in previous seasons capable of fighting on all fronts so we rightly prioritise. I don't 100% agree with Klopp on not playing a few first teamers who need games but Klopp has more than earned the right to make the call.

In Klopp's time if he had won 3 FA Cups and nothing else then he wouldn't have been a success, just like if Man City don't win the CL then their manager will have failed in what he was brought in to win.

When we win the Premier League I don't know how people can complain about anything this season.

28 Jan 2020 21:38:25
What I will say, and I'm on klopps side BTW, but we were all taking the mick out of ole for moaning about replays last weak.

The rules are the rules. I think klopp should be there, but it's his perogative if he plays a second team.

28 Jan 2020 22:22:39
Robbiesline, Klopp addressed his absence from the replay in his pre-West Ham media conference today. He said :

“Could I be here for the game? Of course I could, but that’s again a complete misunderstanding of management and coaching. I don’t come here for showing up for the team, one or two days training and then tell the boys. It’s like all the good coaches from the past could still come in, like Fabio Capello could go to the Italian national team two days before a game and tell them everything they have to do and everything will be fine. It’s not like this, they need their coach and that’s Critch. They need their coach and they get their coach. “

There is a full transcript of what Klopp said on the LFC website.

29 Jan 2020 02:59:11
It makes sense to me when you put it like that wirral mate. Didn't Ferguson used to have his no2 at games, the South American guy (was he South American or Spanish? ) no one said much about that.

I played when I was a kid, for teams with different age groups. And it would have been odd for the older teams coach to coach us. Infact there were 1 or 2 times that our manager couldn't make it and one of the dads would take his place, not the coach of the older or younger teams.

29 Jan 2020 06:47:39
Im strongly behind Klopp on all that's happening. For me tho its only one thing I would change. I would like Klopp to be at the game, but as an assistant to Neil. Neil would only learn from Klopp and as it has been said the u23 need their coach, but it would be better for everyone if Jurgen is on the bench aswell.