It's different for us oldies who remember the glory days of Shanks and Paisley and maybe there will always be an element of nobody will ever live up to them. But ....... while cherishing the past I also do look forward to the future and the new challenges that brings. Times have changed and we move along with them. This appointment feels so right and it's a long time since I've felt that.
By far most excited I have been about an appointment. Only really started following us right at end of Evans reign so only really remember managers from there onwards and although Rafa had done well didn't know too much about him but Klopp is probably the first manager we've appointed that is a big name and can attract players with his name on it's own. He's different from any other manager I've seen, his personality just makes him unique in that respect and seems to connect with the fans in ways other managers cant.
I can remember being gutted when Kenny left (the first time) but not much about Souness' reign (I was young and we were **** )
Well done lads, we were with it every step of the way, we got it over the line Group hug come on please log in to view this image
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He likes possession and good football but isn't so obsessed that we keep the ball at the expense of actually doing something with it.
Klopp left Borussia Dortmund as the joint-most successful coach in the club's history, having matched Ottmar Hitzfeld's five-trophy haul. He claimed two Bundesliga titles, a German Cup and two Super Cups during his stay. Those achievements saw him named German Football Manager of the Year in both 2011 and 2012. He remains the only man to have won the award in consecutive years since it was started in 2002. During his playing career, Klopp earned a diploma in sports science from Goethe University in Frankfurt. Somewhat surprisingly, his thesis focused on racewalking, rather than football. The German led Mainz to the Bundesliga for the first time in their history in 2004 courtesy of a third-placed finish in the second tier. They retained their top-flight status for the next three seasons. The 48-year-old faced Liverpool as a manager even prior to Dortmund's 4-0 friendly defeat at Anfield in 2014, having beaten the Reds 5-0 in another non-competitive tie in the summer of 2006 with Mainz. After the second encounter, he reportedly remarked: "Once, I won 5-0 against Liverpool in pre-season with Mainz and afterwards we got relegated. For me, it's now standing 5-4." Klopp is known for his exuberant touchline celebrations and once revealed that he tore a muscle after getting carried away when his team had scored a goal. As a boy, the new Reds boss supported his hometown team VfB Stuttgart. He has previously revealed that his favourite player was defender Karlheinz Forster, a two-time World Cup runner-up with West Germany. Dortmund took on English sides on six occasions under Klopp, twice being drawn against Arsenal and once against Manchester City in the Champions League. They earned two wins from those fixtures - one against each team - while two ended in draws and two in defeat. BVB's league win in 2011-12 saw them set a new Bundesliga record points total of 81, though this was beaten by Bayern Munich's 91-point haul the following season under Jupp Heynckes. Klopp was regularly spotted walking home from Dortmund's Westfalenstadion after games, and once explained that the journey gave him time to think about how his team had played.
The dawning of a new era at LFC with a manager that has many traits of Shanks, whether it comes to fruition depends on whether the players react to him and believe in him, Shanks knew how to build players moral and confidence even though some of them weren't world beaters.
Just reading the Liverpool site and sharing dude Very happy with the appointment but as I said earlier, one step at a time and lets see what happens.
You know the infamous question of "if you could have dinner with any four famous people past or present, who would they be?", well Shanks would be the first name on my list. He died almost seven months after I was born so I never got to experience the great man. Read and watched many things on him since though.
I was lucky to actually talk to him, he used to let us kids into Melwood to watch the players train(Paisley put a stop to that), and he used to come over and talk to us, I was walking into Lewis's dept store in Liverpool when he was manager and held the door open for my bird and as she went in a feller was on his way out, I said " go ed mate" and kept the door open for the old feller, when he was on his way out he said " thank you son"........and I shouted to her "its Shanks!!!", he just shook my hand smiled and went on his way.
Get in !! Not expecting a miracle in the first game and sudden turnaround from there onwards, but this has to be the start of good things
