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Correct me if Im wrong but this sounds like your advacting that Sky disease of "marquee" signing®.
You simply do not need to blow £50m on players to be good. His Dortmund team had a net cost of £30M. But but this doesn't include the free transfer of Lewandowski whos value would have been about £25M. So that in theory is a spend of £5M to have achieved their domestic league!
If you do what LFC did and seemingly send all your scouts to St Marys, then yes you desperately need marquees. As I said before BR was well out of his element and flipped flopped on a weekly basis. FFS the VIlla semi final saw use use 4 different formations in one half alone with players out of comfortable positions all over the pitch. Fine when you're winning. I imagine that 'show the world how clever you are' ego trip sapped the guys on the pitch mentally by the end. Point is the bar is set so low Klopp surely must hit the basic target of improvement.
He hates the media already. For that I love him.
[Yeah, Klopp was talking about that shirt to the German media, in terms of how they get carried away in England with his slip of tongue...
To FromShankelyon: "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." ]
MultiGrooves-
You're wrong. I'm not.
I'm saying, and I know this is difficult it is early, this:
I don't think he'll get enough time from the media, once it becomes apparent he won't lead them to the promised land this season.
That right now, Liverpool are competing to be Spurs.
That right now, Players who are in your price bracket look firmly at the options (Arsenal, Spurs, Liverpool) and probably evaluate on "4th, possible 4th, Europa but chance to be part of something BIG if it works".Liverpool do not have a bottomless pit to impose the infrastructure required for a massive ground up coaching revolution from top to bottom. Especially with the gamble that it might not actually work in the 3 years he has.
Liverpool do not have a bottomless pit to acquire players from all over the world at the price points they can afford. Also, no marquee signing will come to Liverpool.
Klopp will have problems integrating players from the bundesliga (if that's where he targets) into the EPL BLOOD AND CRASH football (see Shinji Kagawa).
Chalfie
But Wigan is pie.
They must have detected a slight southern twang in your accent.
@Multi_Grooves I don't think Klopp will get given time in the press.
They love him, for now. His aim is: don't get relegated, bed in a team, try and make some progress this season, crack the top 4 by the end of three years. I can't see him doing that with the resources. I don't see LFC as having the bottomless pit of cash needed to acquire people, or the network to attract the bubbling unders to become the bubbling overs. If that makes sense?
I would love to be proved wrong, because a new guy coming in with new ideas and imposing the mad mad world of press and attack and ping ping ping ping peow football would be great.
But he's going to get monstered by the sky mob.