14 Oct 2024 20:46:03
Pep L is on thin ice already. He seems like a useful number 2, but anytime someone is too full of themselves, it raises an alarm for me. Jurgen is perenially humble and never bigs himself up.
As Bruce Lee said ' Be afraid of the quietest man in the room'.
The fans in Salzburg have called for a meeting with the player leadership group, who are put out that, after a decent season players have been outed for the two young reds. Apparently its rocked what was a fairly stable boat. Will Pep ever make a great manager. i wonder.
14 Oct 2024 21:16:53
don't care - he's gone . move on. Is there a soft drinks page?
14 Oct 2024 21:53:22
He's the Dutch brendan.
14 Oct 2024 22:33:30
Ljinders? Klopp? We’ve moved on to new things to moan about now.
15 Oct 2024 00:24:38
Linders is being shown up for what he is in afraid, a Pep. G wannabe. Yeah people we say we won loads while he was here but I would say that was in spite of him rather than because of him. The sort of football he wants to play only works at the top level of you can attract and afford the best of the best which hasn't been the LFC way since the 80s. For me, Ljinders will always be remembered as the coach who took one the most energetic, fast paced and deadliest pressing and countering teams in the history of the game and made us a mediocre Man City impersonator.
15 Oct 2024 01:24:33
If a club constantly sells their best players, it can only be expected that they are going to hit a fallow period when the youth coming through/ new signings are not quite up to the standard of those leaving. It also looks as if things were going stale there before Pep joined, so he may need a bit of time to reinvigorate the team. It remains to be seen if he is the right man to do that, and whether he is given the time. To be fair, we all probably thought the two young guys on loan would hold their own in that league, and the club does seem to be good at nurturing talented young players, if they hadn’t come from the same club as Pep, I doubt there would be as much noise around them.
15 Oct 2024 01:33:55
Westwood, the parts of that monster pressing machine were wearing out, the team had to evolve, we were never going to get like-for-like replacements for Mane/ Bobby/ Mo/ Fab/ Hendo/ GW. If you use the same tactics all the time, the best teams can, and did, figure out how to beat us. It is also worth remembering, MC won way more titles with their system than we did with our high octane pressing style of play.
15 Oct 2024 05:12:21
@D-day
The monster pressing machine gave the likes of Henderson, Milner and Robertson the chance to compete with Man City in the first place. Man City won more because they had £50m+ players in every position and only our best 4 or 5 players could rival theirs from a technical perspective. Even their backups like Mahrez (! ) were as good as our best players technically (not overall) . Pep Guardiola and his style wouldn't have stood a chance with our squad.
Klopp’s problem was not his style of football, it was the fact he refused to upgrade on players early enough.
15 Oct 2024 19:17:33
D-Day, yes City did because they can afford the best, which is what I said. We cannot. During Pep. G's term at City thus far in the league, we were the only team that could push them, match them and on the one occasion beat them by playing a system where you didn't need to be the best technically. So why would we change and try to emulate them? It doesn't make sense and that's why Ljinders will not be remembered fondly by many LFC fans, and especially not by me. I also don't accept that we couldn't have found like for like players as you suggest? A damn site easier to find a team of hard workers than it is a team of technical wizards. It is also reflective of the Club, the City and fans that we weren't technically ever the best but we wanted it more and that shone through. That's what Klopp brought and in my opinion that's what Pep Ljinders pulled apart. Glad to see him gone and not surprised in the slightest he is failing.
17 Oct 2024 07:36:58
Styles have short term impact until teams figure it out. It was other teams (lower than top 4) that started to figure it out and so you have to have an adaptation of style to counter it.
Yes you also need the resources but typically short term tactics should be just that and adaptable teams stay the test of time.