“But I was never a guy for an easy way”. ‘Obviously for Brendan, there is huge disappointment to lose his job at Liverpool.
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The intensity of the football.
You can spot the Liverpool fans today. It’s not a normal, usual club, it’s a special club. The former Borussia Dortmund coach had been the hot favourite from the start. That may even have cost the Reds the Premier League title in 2014. At the end only one is the champion and the others are disappointed. It’s very important that the player can understand easily what you want.
“If someone wants to help Liverpool they have to change from doubters to believers”.
Klopp quickly rejected suggestions that Liverpool’s transfer committee, which had bought 31 players at a cost of £291m under Rodgers, would prove an issue.
“We talked about this”. “In the middle of these two words, we can discuss about everything”. I make the decisions, of course, but I need very good people around me.
On the pressure at Liverpool… “I can say it’s the biggest honour I can imagine, one of the biggest clubs in the world”, he said. It seems that I am a really lucky guy.
‘I’m looking forward to the first training, the first match. Please give us time to work on it. If you want, this could be a really special day. I always thought about working in England and Liverpool was first choice.
“I’m not here only because LFC was calling, I believe in the potential of this team”. Let’s try to start a new way, this is the ideal moment to do this – everything is different.
McAllister took the session with one member of staff – Pep Lijnders, promoted in the summer from the club’s academy as a player development coach – who has kept his job. “They are football maniacs”, Klopp said.
Effectively used as a deputy for Lucas in the defensive midfield role, the player, known also as the “crab” for his backward and sideward style of passing, will be under huge pressure to regain his place in the starting XI. He won the league in 2011 and 2012 and reached the Champions League final in 2013, but his energy-sapping approach had taken its toll on the squad by the time he quit in May. “I’m the Normal One”.
But Can has suffered from “second season syndrome” this campaign as he’s looked unsure on the ball, and is obviously not a centre-half no matter how many times Rodgers tried him there.
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Klopp spoke of “full-throttle football”, of “emotional football”.
