Great coaching outshines talent as Klopp destroys Barca

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The folk bizarrely pushing the idea that coaching isn’t an effective tool for progress had to cancel all future opinions going live in public.

Liverpool crushed the MIGHTY Barcelona in a 4-0 drubbing for the ages.

Yes, Shaqiri, Wijnaldum, Origi, and Henderson all featured and starred in an absolute masterclass at Anfield, showing that a strong vision, a defined footballing philosophy, and good old fashioned coaching can trump individual talent… even when that talent is Lionel Messi.

As Tr7 said perfectly the comments, ‘It was heavy metal football that rattled Barca, not the quality of players Liverpool has.’ They still delivered without their best players. An incredible achievement, even if it does make me pig sick… our biggest mistake of the last ten years was passing on Klopp and Pep.

MORE MONEY

MORE PLAYERS

MORE MONEY

MORE PLAYERS

… really doesn’t rub when you see Jordan Henderson as a regular in their side. Origi proving pivotal at the highest level. Low budget signings like Robertson game changing all season. Trent Arnold breaking through from the youth team and playing like a superstar. They lost Salah and still manage to compete. Arsenal lose Ramsey and the whole thing falls apart. Unai picked up a squad in better shape than Klopp, spent more money in his first transfer window than the German did in 2 years and managed to make things worse.

There’s no real way to compare the two managers. As I pointed out yesterday, Klopp finished a lowly 8th in his first season, but he also picked up a dreck squad that was deflated and 10th. He had no preseason to work with, and in his final 13 games, his team scored 31 goals. His coaching had him finish stronger than he started, you could see what he was doing on the pitch, not in hopeful translated text on Marca.

Their stadium was absolutely rocking. You know why? Because the football courses through the veins. It’s electric. The energy on the pitch translates to the stands. If you think that has been standard at Liverpool over the last ten years, you have never met a season ticket holder there.

I am jealous of what they have, Klopp has been a sensation. He was my original managerial crush way back when, I had my doubts about his rebirth at Liverpool, oh how wrong I was. Elite of the elite. Can you believe we let him sit without a job while Wenger paraded deal after new deal?

Just read these words Klopp had after the game.

“It was overwhelming … I actually … I said to the boys before the game that it’s impossible, but because it’s you we have a chance. I have watched in my life so many football games, but to play the best team in the world … look, winning is already difficult, but to win with a clean sheet … It’s 10.10pm and the children are probably in bed so I’m sorry about the language but can I say these boys are fucking talented giants. It’s all about the players.”

Employing an inspiring coach that knows how to develop players is so important. If you don’t have that, why persist? Charisma, passion, energy… that’s what makes a club rock. But again, I can’t hammer home how utterly bat shit it is to excuse this season because our players aren’t coachable. Think about that statement and how weak it is.

Pep Guardiola, the chequebook manager everyone slates, took a journeyman central midfielder called Fabian Delph and turned him into a regular left-back in a team that will go down as one of the all times greats in Premier League history. World class managers make average players great. They make collections of them work as a unit. They organise, inspire and equip them with the tools they need to succeed.

How about we talk about a really shite team, like, say, Southampton? They were in a mess before they played us at Christmas. Ralph Hassenhutl, an interest of Le Grove a few years ago came in and reshaped them. Ryan Bertrand had this to say on what he’s done.

“The manager has came in and has given us an identity,”

“He has given us a clear style of play and leaves no stone unturned.

“It is a real pleasure to go on the field like that and not have people questioning each other.”

“If you asked 100 people what Southampton’s style of play was, you would get similar answers,” he added.

“It would be that we are a high pressing team, very competitive and play good football.

“That may have been adrift before.”

If you asked 100 people about Arsenal’s identity, what would you get?

“Catch Kola on the overlap’

We are still there a year on.

Better players give you better results, no doubt, but whether it’s the highest level or the lowest, the clearer the vision, the better the outcome. Look at Mourinho over the years, his Champions League win with Inter Milan was genius. That squad was a ragtag bunch of pros that he turned into a formidable unit. Look at how Jardim toppled the mighty PSG. Look at what Ajax are doing, win or lose tonight.

Arsenal has conceded 52 goals so far this season. Some flag that Holding and Bellerin would have made things better… reality is, we were on for conceding 50+ goals with them in the side. Poor organisation is always going to leave you exposed regardless of who is playing. The game is far too competitive now to be able to get away with good players simply bailing you out. Everyone is of a high technical standard now, you will be destroyed if you aren’t organised and that’s exactly what’s been going on.

Sam Allardyce has always known this. He goes into clubs on fire, organises them and makes them competitive. He takes shite defences, with shite defenders and he makes them better. That’s good coaching even if the football causes an eye infection.

Anyway, time to move on. I think we all know where I stand on our bland on toast manager.

Tonight, we are ALL Ajax fans. Finally, something we can agree on.

However, I do fear that Spurs power will be a big problem for them and we’ll have to suffer a Champions League final where we want neither side to win.

I’m just going to be thinking about Vermaelen, Bergkamp, Kanu and Overmars all day today… then I’m going to pray to the footballing gods.

Spurs making a final would be too much.

If they lose this evening… that’ll be the 20th game of the season. They’ll have limped into top 4. They won’t have won a trophy, AGAIN.

How funny would that be?

Very.

See you in the comments. x

 

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Jamie

Players I think we should stick with (youth, squad or starting 11): Leno Bellerin AMN Papa Holding Mavro Torreira Guendouzi Willock Iwobi ESR Nelson Nketiah Auba Laca Players we need to jettison at any cost/release: Cech – free Jenko – 2m Kos – 3m Mustafi – 5m Chambers – 5m Kola – 5m Monreal – free Ramsey – free Elneny – 5m Ozil – free to 5m Mkhi free to 5m Welbeck – free We’d be lucky to recoup £30m from a £150m+ outlay. Big difference between the way we handle player contracts and the way Liverpool handles theirs. That’s… Read more »

Marko

Kenny Lala from Strasbourg is being linked with a move. 5 goals and 9 assists for a RB is not bad

gunnershabz

apparently the right back of NICE

forgot his name but he is algerian is worth looking at

he has been catching the eye of big clubs

Dissenter

Pedro ‘The club should clear the dross this summer. Reduce the wage bill drastically. Start rebuilding sensibly like Liverpool did’ I know it’s unfair to,pick apart every thing you say because you’re as fallible as anyone else. …but for record purposes We are not going to be able to rebuild like Liverpool because a major part of their rebuild was funded from players sales and they got some help from Barcelona for that. It was hearty watching Barca get beaten by the club that sold Coutinho to them for £142 million when he worth no more than the £53 million… Read more »

Champagne Charlie

Jamie

Be sensible mate Jesus Christ, you might not like the players but their value isn’t as you make out.

We rejected 20 mil for Chambers not long ago.

Mustafi is 20+ mil
Mkhi 15+ mil
Ozil 15+ mil
Chambers 15+ mil
Elneny 10+ mil

Dissenter

Mario
Arsenlogbus reporting that we are telling agents that we aren’t ready to discuss transfers yet.
If that story is remotely true, then take all the tabloid rumors for what it is.

Marc

Jamie

Jenko’s contract is up this summer so no fee. Middlesbrough offered us £20 million for him summer before last so we can definitely get more than £5 million for him. There were links for Elneny for £15 million earlier in the season so £5 million should be low balling it as well. There are quite a number on your list who we should be able to get more than a token fee – it might not be £30 million fees but we can do better. That’s Sanllehi’s job in the summer.

gunnershabz

Kamp

i really think we should buy Zaha instead of Pepe

Pepe looks good but then again could turn out to be a gervinho

Arsenal, dont usually buy from other premier league teams due to “price”

but if we went for Zaha, he can be our mkhi replacement as a wide player who can also play behind the striker

Marc

shabz

And how much do you expect to pay for Zaha

vickingz

Speaking after the victory, Lovren, who was an unused substitute, paid tribute to the German. “Congratulations to Klopp,” the defender told the club’s official website . “Before the game he did an amazing speech. “It was something brilliant and I think he lifted us so high. It was just ‘Believe! Put it in your mind that we can do it’. It was something that we’ve never heard before. “He said ‘Boys, believe. One or two goals, even if we don’t score in the first 15, 20 minutes, believe in the 65th, 66th, 67th minute that we can score, and then… Read more »

gambon

“We made a net 22 m profit the year before ..that’s 45 million over 2 years.”

This isnt true.

We basically broke even the year before.

£140m out, £140m in.

Graham62

Last nights sensational events at Anfield represented the best comeback I have ever witnessed in my fifty years of watching the game.

It was a privilege to see it all unfold.

Thanks Liverpool.

Dissenter

CC
Who’s going to pay 15 million for a 350k weekly player with two assists in the league
Who will pay that much for Myhhimwhen he’s in so much wages.

We will,have to subsidize wages to make these two happen which will bring the net to near zero.
That’s the reality I’m afraid

Leftsidesanch

Whats the going rste for Pepe this summer £60m?

I can see Palace asking for roughly the same for Zaha

gunnershabz

Marc

we should offer some players i.e. elneny

but i know the price will be £60m plus but this is where teams like liverpool purchased from southampton and everyone raised their eyebrows i.e sadio mane

CG

Un

“”””Great post today pedro. I’d say the last week has seen your peak thus far in terms of blog quality.
If only the suits at the club were as inspiring moving forward”””

Klopp-esque posting from PedRo.

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goonah

out of contract

Monreal???

Why did he not get the Ramsey/cech /welbeck treatment then Sunday???

Marko

apparently the right back of NICEforgot his name but he is algerian is worth looking at

Atal. He’s supposed to be red hot 6 goals this season. They insist he’s not for sale cause they just brought him in but we should try. He looks top drawer

Goonah

We can pray that Reiss Nelson takes another step and makes the right wing his own

gunnershabz

Marko

that is it Atal, he looks like a great player very attacking and i am sure in a few seasons the big clubs will want him

i can see PSG snapping him up before his value triples

Graham62

vickingz

Klopp is a one off.

No one else could have spoken like that before the game.

Shite, even his after match speech on BT Sport was legendary.

Receding Hairline

I would go all out for Zaha, he will bring a different dimension to our game.

gambon

Jamie

Your fee’s there are nonsense.

I remember hearing we wouldnt get any fee for Walcott, Chamberlain, Coquelin, Giroud.

We got £83m for the 4.

Receding Hairline

And we should also look to see if Lazio are still interested in Iwobi..he isn’t getting any better than this i am afraid

We should strike some sort of deal to get Mkhi off our books, carrying both him and Ozil is suicide

Jamie

CC –

I would like nothing more than for my valuations to be laughable. Almost all the players I listed whose contracts aren’t up this summer would most likely need to take pay cuts. That’s why I think their resale value is so low.

No one is paying Xhaka (who I forgot to include), Mustafi, Kola, Mkhi, Ozil what they’re earning at Arsenal, and those are the ones who we need shot of first.

gambon

Ozil is the only player we will have to literally give away.

vickingz

The Premier League outfit had been written off ahead of Tuesday’s second leg, and Klopp was in awe of his players’ achievement after the game: “What the boys did – this mix, again, of big heart and football skills – is unbelievable. “But then, how we know – and we didn’t learn it in the first game, we knew it before already – if you have chances you have to score because otherwise you get punished. Tonight we scored in different ways. “It’s unbelievable after the season we played, the games we had, the injuries we have now in this… Read more »

Receding Hairline

Jamie someone will pay for them

As for your valuations being laughable they are not as laughable as Guendouzi being worth 70m pounds that was plastered all over the internet two days ago, valuation is one thing, getting someone to actually pay up is another.

Goonah

CG

If Monreal isn’t hellbent on going back to spain we still might extend his contract for a year

gunnershabz

guys if we had to sell goundouzi for £50m would you take it??

Leftsidesanch

Ozil isn’t going anywhere Gambon

Guns of Hackney

Our player’s values I would suggest is almost certainly no more than £20m and that would be for Leno, Laca or Auba. The rest are £3-£5m at best.

Our squad is probably worth £100m at the most.

Graham62

CC

Your listed estimates for the players is just about spot on.

BacaryisGod

Like I said before, Rafa is not ideal but considering I went into this season with an open mind on Emery, I’m surprised at how quickly he’s started to annoy me. The one that gets me the most is the chin rub but his general facial expressions get under my skin and I don’t even play for the man. On top of that, he handled the Ramsey situation appallingly. He arrived saying he wants to build the team around him and then proceeds to freeze him out for the beginning part of the season as the contract talks dragged on.… Read more »

gambon

Keep Monreal, sell Kolasinac

We have to sell these players that keep forcing us to change formation.

Kolasinac
Maitland-Niles
Mustafi

vickingz

My fear isn’t selling the dross but in emery as a coach. A coach playing 2 WC strikers for 90 minutes sometimes without a short at goal. Hmmmm. We’ll all be alive and in good health to see what next season has in stock

gambon

“Ozil isn’t going anywhere Gambon”

I think we may get rid.

Offer a free transfer and I can see it happening.

Guns of Hackney

Gued for £50m lolz. Lira maybe…he’s not so good and has gone backwards faster than the Italian army.

Champagne Charlie

Dissenter Ozil is probably touch and go depending on where he’d potentially head off to. His wages would drive any fee down, but that’s where these suits should earn their coin. Only reality is Sola me going for 20 mil after 2 seasons watching Liverpool play from the bench. We will get money for these guys in this market, perisic was quoted at circa 35 mil. That’s a Mkhi player in terms of calibre. Mkhi is on high wages coming in as part of a deal, but 15 mil is peasant money for him outside of the prem. He’d bring… Read more »

Guns of Hackney

Gambon

No chance. The guy is earning £350kpw. He’s totally cool with that. He stays.

He’s our Bogarde.

Jamie

Let them be laughable, please! I would love to have a belly roar at my own expense this summer when we bank £100 in player sales getting rid of the dross and invest it all in young talent.

Can’t see it happening, but happy to take flak if it does, and concede that I utterly undervalued our players. I’m wrong all the time, I can deal with it.

gunnershabz

Gunz

do we have any £50m value rated players?

bellerin, auba and lacazette

Jamie

oops, £100m* this summer, not £100! Freudian slip.

Kamp

Shabz

Sensible comment on Zaha. Totally agree on the PL proven element. Pepe is an unknown…
Zaha will also bring a ruggedness we desperately need.
Maybe him on the left and Neres on the right?

One thing I’m certain on is Rabiot is available on a free, (+£10 for agent moms) signing him will be a statement of intent and be cost effective. An absolute must win contest.

Marko

Ozil is definitely going. There’s no way he’s kept on. His Adidas deal finishes in 2020 if he’s not playing regular football they’ll tell him to go fuck himself. It wouldn’t make sense for a 30/31 year old with years left to sit on his hole and take the wage it’s not smart and him and his agents know that

vickingz

Just offload our aged and heavy legged players to Asia or even the gulf countries.

Marko

Christ if he wasn’t so spiteful he could have been playing for PSG the last few months

Guns of Hackney

Shabz you beautiful crazy SOB

Not one of them is worth that or even close to that.

Auba is 30 and not great.
Laca is 28 and extremely limited.
Bellerin is shit. And now has a duff knee.

Leno might be worth the most. He’s done himself a lot of favours this season. I can see him going to a good club. Man yoo maybe after they sell theirs.

gunnershabz

Kamp

Adrian Rabiot on a free is a great replacement for Ramsey

i know the whole package will be expensive but he is 23, maybe we have snapped him up as we getting rid of cech, ramsey and welbeck wages. i am sure thats like £400k pw off the wage bill

Kamp

I’ve heard we might loan Ozil out to anyone who will pay 50% of the salary.
Makes a certain sense as we cut the bill and get the him out of the team.
Donny Van De Beek can replace him if we win the Europa.

Receding Hairline

Signing Rabiot to replace Xhaka?? Please don’t say he is replacing Ramsey, he is not that sort of player.

Rabiot is too high maintenance anyway, how can signing a player who has been available for free for quite sometime with no takers be a statement of intent. We can get a similar player for lesser.

gunnershabz

Gunz

i am sure we can get some good money on lacazette

the reason about goundouzi is psg were sniffing around the £50m early on the season maybe it has changed

i am sure torriera value has gone up too

bellerin will have some value as Barca always want him back but again his form post injury will make a difference

Receding Hairline

“the reason about goundouzi is psg were sniffing around the £50m early on the season maybe it has changed”

This is simply not true ..

gunnershabz

Recerding

i understand what you saying but Rabiot is a player we might get, but i am surprised nothing has been annouced with him officially

maybe they are struggling with a buyer due to agent demands

vickingz

Is Chamberlain gonna celebrate champions league cup victory over his arsenal folks?? Who would have thought??

Kamp

Love the idea of De Beek and Rabiot as our midfield two. With Guendouzi and Torreira as backups/available if we want to play three.

Selling xhaka and Elneny should fund De Beek.

People often say it’s footy manager talk, but that’s how you stay arsenal instead of becoming Liverpool . Fucking do something for your salary I tell the board!

Marko

One things for certain we’ll almost certainly have to win the Europa League to stand any chance of sorting out this mess in the summer. No way we’ll be able to afford or attract the right kind of players if we’re in the Europa again. And it seems Stan isn’t likely to pony up a dime either so if we want to spend anything remotely near what we’ll need to spend we’ll have to earn it ourselves. It’s truly extraordinary how fucked we are as a club and how quickly it could be remedied if the owner or his son… Read more »

gunnershabz

De Beek is a brillant player and ideal replacement for Ramsey

but his value has gone straight towards the £60m and Real Madrid are looking at him and we aint competing with them

those ajax players like de ligt, de beek, neres are welcome at arsenal but we wont be able to afford them at all

Pierre

Kamp
” I’ve heard we might loan Ozil out to anyone who will pay 50% of the salary.
Makes a certain sense as we cut the bill and get the him out of the team. ”

So we throw 7/8 million a season down the drain …really makes sense?

What would have made sense is that whoever awarded the ludicrous contract to Ozil should have then hired a manager who rates our most expensive player instead of marginalizing him after he was an integral part of our early season unbeaten run .

Now THAT does make sense.

Guns of Hackney

We should start looking and raiding Ajax while their players are still relatively cheap. Or, hire their development guy.

I still maintain the most important signing we make is the manager. Either go big and give Pep anything he wants or go for Arteta.

vickingz

Emery won’t be able to handle rabbiot o, well maybe he’ll have to be sending his assistants to talk to him.

Marko

Rabiot is too high maintenance anyway, how can signing a player who has been available for free for quite sometime with no takers be a statement of intent. We can get a similar player for lesser. Nah I don’t agree with that. And maybe we need a moody high maintenance prick of a player maybe he’ll actually demand more out of his teammates. Cause right now we have some meek ass pussies in the squad who when the going gets tough they stay silent. Don’t think I’ve ever seen such a lack of leaders or fight in such a group… Read more »

gunnershabz

gunz

if we brave enough, we should be scouting heavily in the dutch league for those hidden gems

usually ajax sign them up first and develop them i.e. de jong and de beek

am sure there some talent in the belgium league if we going into that market

Marko

Don’t fall for the bait

Marc

“whoever awarded the ludicrous contract to Ozil should have then hired a manager who rates our most expensive player instead of marginalizing him ”

Technically if that manager is out there somewhere why can’t we sell Ozil to him?

Marko

Rabiot and Brandt would transform our midfield at a spend of 25 million.

jwl

TR7 – “It was heavy metal football that rattled Barca, not the quality of players Liverpool has.”

This is backwards, the quality of players Klopp has allows him to play heavy metal football. Liverpool have many athletic players while I would be amazed if any of our offensive players would physically be able to handle Klopp philosophy, other than Torr.

Obviously coaches matter but players are more important. Wenger stopped buying large, athletic players with will to win and I don’t believe Klopp would be doing any better than Emery with our squad.

Alex James

Don’t give a monkey’s about Liverpool and Spurs. The only good thing about last night is that the former should prove to good for the latter, should the final turn out that way. I only care about The Arsenal, and we currently have the worst squad at the club, since the 1980s. After 90 plus minutes tonight and on Thursday, my heart may finally give out. Benitez is the man we should have gone all out for. He would have made something of this sack of rubbish we currently have.

Goonah

I read that Ospina has played 24 times for Napoli. The option to buy is activated at 25 so hes was benched last game. Lol

Happy days Red, the man might be back.

Pierre

GOH “I still maintain the most important signing is the manager” Agreed… The manager is everything at a football club , the direction a club takes is down to the manager ….Ferguson,jose( early Chelsea days ), klopp , pep and pochettino are confirmation of this. You can have the best director of football , scouting system , youth academy in the world but if the manager is sub standard then the club will not progress. Alternatively , you can have poor scouting , academy dof but if you have a top manager with a vision for the future then the… Read more »

Receding Hairline

“Technically if that manager is out there somewhere why can’t we sell Ozil to him?”

Or Pierre could buy him and pay him with his life savings and watch his touches in a nearby playground

Pierre

Marc
You are forgetting one thing…..350 grand a week …He is unsellable as is Alexis Sanchez.

Redtruth

Guardiola..do me a favour..Red Adair couldn’t save Arsenal.

Emiratesstroller

Pedro Yes the club made significant changes in 2017, but that was to be expected considering that the club had more or less the same Board, Staff and Coaching for almost 20 years. That is not for me a commercial risk All businesses change their staff. However, Arsenal by any standard does not do so with the same regularity as most other football clubs. Yesterday I made the point that it was highly unlikely that Emery would be sacked after one year, because that is not the way the club operates. History shows that our managers are given usually 2-3… Read more »

Redtruth

Pochettino has no faith in Spurs.
He says he may leave if Spurs win the Champions league.
This is a once in a lifetime moment for Spurs and he knows it.

Graham62

“Alternatively , you can have poor scouting, academy DoF but if you have a top manager with a vision for the the future then the club will progress”

Now I know where it all went wrong.

We haven’t had a top manager, with a vision, for over a decade.

Marc

Red

Glad I’m not the only one who found those comments strange.

The day before the biggest match in living memory and all the manager can do is talk about leaving.

Alexanderhenry

Pedro

‘Emirates, reengineering the whole club looks like risk to me.’

Not a financial risk .
The reengineering hasn’t cost Stan anything personally.

He hasn’t risked a penny at arsenal.
All that’s happened is that arsenal have made him even richer than he was before. The share prices have tripled since he bought his first tranche.

Emiratesstroller

Interesting Chelsea have lost their appeal against 2 year transfer ban.

They will not be able to buy or borrow players this summer.

Emiratesstroller

It will be interesting what will happen now with Hazard. Will Chelsea sell him
to Real Madrid or hang onto him for the remainder of his contract and lose him
on a Bosman.

This raises also questions about whether Abramovich might now sell the club.

Leftsidesanch

Didn’t realise that since Ozil signed the deal ‘the heist of the decade’ that he has only made 4 assists.

Dissenter

That Chelsea ban is very good news for us
That will make somethings easier for us in the summer.

jwl

English football was always better than European leagues because it focused on athleticism, power, fight to death philosophy.

Liverpool has committee to decide who to buy/sell and they have bought players who buy into English way of playing and combined it with a few flair players. Klopp is top quality manager but it’s the players who allow him to shine.

Dissenter

Pedro
“How much financial risk are the Liverpool owners taking?”

The Liverpool owners injected 112 million to build a new stand in their stadium, mainly corporate boxes. That was a capital investment in the club. It now earns them 12 million more yearly.

vickingz

Guess the powers that be are doing everything to frustrate Abrahamovich to sell Chelsea

gambon

Wouldnt say Ozil is unsellable.

If he was on £120k per week, would he have interest?

Assuming a buying club can pay him £120k pw, we would need to pay him off to the tune of £23m in order to get rid.

This is assuming he isnt willing to take any pay cut at all.

Tell him he isnt part of the future of the club, tell him he wont even train with the first team, let alone play, and he will soon start looking at his options.

Gbat

Pierre

Have you considered that maybe Ozil just isn’t that good anymore? He hasn’t played consistently well for years. Every player declines eventually so maybe this is his level now.

gambon

In Emerys first window, he was given a £65m budget
In Klopps first window, he was given a £0 budget

I dont think Stans the problem.

A terrible manager, bad purchasing, inept contract management is the problem….compounded by making a big mistake replacing Wenger.

bennydevito

Rafa Benitez is not a better manager than Emery otherwise their respective clubs would be in the opposite position in the league. As Pedro quite rightly says; it’s not about the players it’s about the coaching, so two things are now indisputable: Emery has coached us better than Benitez has Newcastle because the league table doesn’t lie. If we replace Emery with a better coach next season we won’t need to spend a single penny because a lot on here insist we already have easily a top 4 side, and with better coaching ala Klopp and Pep the standard of… Read more »

gambon

“Rafa Benitez is not a better manager than Emery otherwise their respective clubs would be in the opposite position in the league.”

Absolutely ridiculous thing to say.

So Ranieri was a better manager than Klopp in 2016, then suddenly got worse overnight.

Emiratesstroller

Pedro The only risk that Kroenke is taking is that the club performs so badly that season tickets are not renewed and our sponsors pull out. Both scenarios are highly unlikely. Yes he has made changes to the management of the club, but as I have pointed out that is quite normal in most businesses and in particular the football industry. If the staff recruited turn out to be damp squibs Kroenke will recruit new staff just like many other clubs do or have done. Sacking them will be small change by comparison with what was spent on Wenger. Kroenke’s… Read more »

jwl

bennydevito – I can’t tell if you being sarcastic or not?

Dissenter

I think Abrahmovich will sell Chelsea
He wasn’t well treated in mu opinion, not after spending as much as 1.5 billion in the UK economy.
He will sell and move on. Word is that he is asking for $2.5 billion which is a big ask.

Hoksilato

Gambon

A terrible manager, bad purchasing, inept contract management is the problem….compounded by making a big mistake replacing Wenger.

An “owner” making bad decisions consistently when selecting/hiring his key executives/leaders may be a big part of the problem too. When/if he sacks Emery (which i doubt) he may well make the wrong hire …again….

RGG

Bang on…..Stan is paying for his blind, stupid, irrepressible faith in Wenger!

I just don’t see the decisions getting any better…..on or off the pitch. Looks to me Kroenke will be ‘paying’ for his biggest mistake for many years to come…..

Maybe it’ll fuck him off and he’ll eventually sell. Till then well be nothing more than Everton+

Champagne Charlie

“Rafa Benitez is not a better manager than Emery otherwise their respective clubs would be in the opposite position in the league.“

Top logic that lad.

So if Pep took over at Burnley, and Dyche landed at City, Pep would have Burnley above City end of season because he’s a better manager?

There’s insight for you, cheers Benny.

Marko

In Klopps first window, he was given a £0 budget You talking the January window or his first summer window? About 5 million in January and 63 million in the summer. When you say it the way you do you make it sound like Jurgen Klopp has transformed Liverpool with little or in certain instances no investment. Which isn’t true. I think the point that people like yourself should be making is even as bad as things are for us right now that it is possible to do what Liverpool has done as in inside 3 and a half 4… Read more »

gambon

Marko

In Klopps first 12 months he spent £70m, and sold just over £70m.

Therefore his budget for transfers was £0

He didnt just sell £70m of players for the fun of it.

Micheal

Stroller “Kroenke’s only interest in Arsenal is as an investment. If he wants to sell the business there will be no shortage of takers. ” I agree. In strictly financial terms, Kroenke’s approach is not clear. He has never milked AFC for large sums by taking hefty dividends or saddling the balance sheet with huge debts – so far, at least. His policy appears is to sit on his asset and watch it grow in value – like someone buying a desireable house and not living in it or renting out. If I am correct, Kroenke will only make real… Read more »