Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2015/16 (*EVERYONE READ MOD POST in OP)

~Rebel~ wrote: »

You can't go through that list of players and honestly say he got them playing to the best of their ability. In a lot of cases, they were actually playing amongst the worst football of their careers. Balotelli and Lovren in particular, but plenty more were far from their personal peaks. Lallana, Markovic and Lambert were also shadows of their former selves.

On the other side, how many players were playing the best football of they careers? Maybe Coutinho in patches? And that would be about it.

If all of our players play to the best of their ability, we finish higher than we did. That's the number one job of the manager. If he gets the most out of what he has, then you can start arguing about what he could have done with players he wanted more, but as he didn't, that argument is moot. Lallana and Lovren are clear examples of that - clearly both Rodgers signings, neither was a patch on how they were the previous year.

“Ever watched a porn movie?” the interviewer asked.

“Yes,” Jürgen Klopp replied immediately.

The name of the porn movie Klopp watched, when he was about 15 or 16, was Josefine Mutzenbacher: wie sie wirklich war (Josefine Mutzenbacher: how she really was). The film traces the sexual awakening of a young Austrian girl in the 19th century, from an innocent child to a high‑class Viennese prostitute. “I don’t remember the plot,” Klopp admitted, “but it got right down to business.”

The interesting point to make here is not the fact that Klopp once watched a blue movie, but that when he was asked about it an interview with a Cologne radio station last year, he admitted it.

Freely. Instantly. With details. Put virtually any other manager in world football in that situation – Mark Hughes, Manuel Pellegrini, André Villas-Boas – and the strong likelihood is that, within a matter of seconds, you will be pointing your microphone at an empty chair.