You don’t sack managers like Klopp or Pep, they sack you
Didn’t everyone think the same about Arsene Wenger?
He was sacked after years of mediocrity, not a bad run or even a season.
Years of mediocrity, falling out with sections of the fans for extended periods of time, poor transfers, lack of CL, stagnating methods and staff appointments, couldn’t win a game away from home…it was time to go sadly.
Didn’t he just retire. I won’t know for sure. I’d rather call it retirement ?
He went on to work for FIFA on football policies, but as far as coaching is concerned he’s basically retired (not officially but he’s 73 and seems to be enjoying his life so I think coming back out to coach isn’t on his agenda).
Yeah, you really went forward when you sacked him.
Did I say we went forward or did I just list some of the reasons why he left (because he wasn’t sacked).
I don’t think Tuchel will last till next summer at Bayern, so I fully expect Alonso to join Bayern.
I honestly hope Pep Lijnders takes over for Klopp when Klopp leaves. He’s earned it and would be the perfect person to carry on the good work Klopp started and maintain the continuity and clarity in purpose, team building, and man management already in place, but he’d also bring a fresh energy and some new ideas.
I really do think that management transition at Liverpool could parallel that if the switch from Bill Shankly to Bob Paisley, if not in exact trophy count but at least in sustained success season over season.
But if not Pep Lijnders, then Xabi Alonso is my very next preferred choice to take over after Klopp.
I want to believe
Gerrard had the massive fortune of Celtic absolutely collapsing after Rodger’s left mid season and gave the job to Neil Lennon. Won less trophies that season than St Johnstone did. His success in Scotland is massively overstated, almost everyone here thinks of his time here as a failure with a bright spot. While being near penniless, he managed to bring on a shit load of debt while raising the playing wage budget greater than celtics. Rangers are suffering for it now.
DailyMail lol
Holding a banner saying thanks for the rivalry in German and Catalan
Pep doesn’t rly have a reason to leave City. Only other team where he’d get the same resources is PSG and it’s a shitshow of a club in a much weaker league. Unless he gets bored and goes back to Barca I don’t rly see him leaving. Maybe to Italy if Klopp somehow ends up there or an NT.
Pep to Spain and Klopp to Germany for the world cup in … Saudi Arabia :')
I didn’t mean it in the way that he would go there, the point was just that RSO is also a former club not mentioned in the article (and contract?) like SD Eibar
At this point it’s all but confirmed Xabi will be our next manager, right? godspeed, hopefully florentino supports him and sign the players he wants/needs to succeed.
Winner decides the correct spelling of their name for the next year 🤣
You should know by now that Madrid players respond well to respected (club) legends, and not to professor type coaches who have never won anything substantial.
current team is completely altered from the generation that this was said about. They may respond to a coach like Nagelsmann just as anyone would.
We only had one good attacker. Vinicius became a great player when he left. Would not call it a massive failure. He won a league title.
Fucking hell. We are rotating Carlo and Zizou since 2013 like there’s no other manager. I love Zizou and would love to have him back but it’d be a nice change if we get someone else.
He has yet to coach a full season and still drastically improved a struggling Leverkusen side. If that ain’t worth the hype, what is?
Their improvement last season was due to many factors, not just Alonso. I think he’ll be a good one but let’s just chill. He hasn’t proven much yet.
This. Bayer had a decent squad for a while now. If anything they had underperformed previous years.