The charismatic German has taken all the headlines since replacing Brendan Rodgers as manager of the Merseyside club.
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Attack is surely the best form of defence for Liverpool, especially with their porous back line and this will leave to chances at both ends at White Hart Lane.
With his first game as Liverpool manager coming up against Tottenham on Saturday, Jurgen Klopp wants to instil courage and hard work in his team.
However, Klopp has said he had no intention of poaching players from his former club Borussia Dortmund for the Reds. “But it’s not so important what people think when you come in”. I think now if nothing happens in the next training sessions I know how we want to play.
“Some things you can change instantly: mentality, readiness”, Klopp said. I hope next week they will be in normal team training. “Two strikers, I don’t need more”. I want to see fun in their eyes. Lastly, Klopp will have to decide between Lallana and Jordon Ibe but Lallana’s willingness to track back will put him ahead of the young winger. Only Watford, Newcastle United and West Bromwich Albion have netted fewer than them.
In an interview with the club’s in-house television channel, LFC TV, Klopp described the job as “the biggest challenge…in the world of football”.
One other bet which is surely worth a look at is for Klopp to win manager of the month during the 2015/16 season which is 9/4 with BetVictor. Players who can get up and down the pitch repeatedly are extremely useful to Klopp, and that will apply to the likes of Henderson and Milner in more-central positions, too. Sky Sports reports that he has since been ruled out for the rest of the season with a torn ACL, adding to Liverpool’s woes.
“We have Origi – do you know him?”
“Here, it just seems to be one disaster after another”. If the Brazilian gets on board with Klopp’s approach, a more energetic, involved Coutinho would be terrifying for opponents; he could, essentially, play the role Shinji Kagawa perfected at Dortmund. The one glaring omission is Chelsea, which continues to struggle in its defense of the title and is languishing in 16th place – two positions above the relegation zone – with only two wins so far.
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“It’s been a consistent factor for decades”, British sportswriter Michael Calvin, whose book on football managers, “Living on the Volcano”, was released in August, said.
