http://www.newstatesman.com/politic...bespectacled-and-toothsome-new-footie-messiah please log in to view this image ALEX LIVESEY/GETTY IMAGES SHOW IMAGE SPORT 21 OCTOBER 2015 All hail our bespectacled and toothsome new footie messiah Klopp at the Kop. HUNTER DAVIES Is that the end – will we never see their likes again? Rest in pieces, British managers. You are never likely to manage another top club in your own top league. Clip-clop, clip-clop, here he comes. In English his surname means something – the sound of horses’ hooves in a corny Radio 4 Saturday drama – but in Germany, apparently, Klopp does not mean anything, apart from being a fairly common surname and the name of a castle. With the arrival of Jürgen Klopp at Liverpool, taking over from Brendan Rodgers – the man once considered the best of the krop, I mean crop, of present-day British managers – the managers of all our top clubs are foreign. Man City, Man United and Arsenal, along with Chelsea (who are bound to get a grip soon), plus Everton, Spurs, Southampton and Leicester (who’ll probably finish in the top half) have all got foreign gaffers. Even West Ham, currently lurking in fourth spot, are managed by the ever-amusing, ever-smart former eccentric Slaven Bilic of Croatia. If you want to find an English manager in England’s top league – and there are six still clinging on – you have to look at the bottom half of the table: Newcastle, Sunderland, Villa, Bournemouth, Swansea, or raise your eyes slightly higher to Palace, who are doing good under Alan Pardew. But do you think he’ll get the Chelsea job if Mourinho gets the sack? José won’t go, of course. He has told us he won’t, and I believe every fib he utters, though he deserves a really good slap for the disgraceful way he treated Eva Carneiro, the Chelsea doctor. All non-Chelsea fans are loving his present predicament, not least because it’s a moral judgement on his behaviour. But would Pardew go to Chelsea, or Garry Monk of Swansea – two excellent, English-raised managers? No chance. Top jobs are for top managers. Which, alas, excludes all Brits. Klopp is a welcome addition to our game. He is very tall, a bit like a muscular version of the comedian Stephen Merchant, except for his teeth. Klopp’s teeth are enormous, like Ken Dodd’s rejects. They barely fit his mouth, which explains why he smiles so much. His English is excellent – yet earlier in his career, as a player and manager, he never played abroad. Shows how good the German education system must be. He did a wonderful job with Borussia Dortmund, winning the Bundesliga twice, putting Bayern Munich in their place; but then last spring, before the season was over, he announced that he was leaving Dortmund and football to take a sabbatical. In recent years, I can think of only Pep Guardiola of Barça taking voluntary leave while still at the top. Usually the bodies of managers end up dumped overnight in the car park, still screaming: it’s not fair, the owner loves me dearly, he said so, the refs are all ****ers, the fans are idiots, quick, where’s my lawyer. Does it mean Klopp was stressed, with emotional or mental weaknesses? Behind the scenes, was there something happening we never knew about? Or is he a grown-up, sensible, mature human being? Unlikely. All managers are mad. I always think one of the reasons we have so few top English-born managers or players is that they are so insular, they’ve not served abroad, experienced other cultures. They don’t know how football works in Europe, or the language, or the contacts. One of the many advantages foreign managers have when they come over here is that they know and can attract talent from Europe, perhaps players they managed earlier, even if they’re past their prime, such as Bastian Schweinsteiger at Man United. But Klopp ruins this theory: his career was insular. And if it were true, Steve McClaren should have come back from Europe a better manager; and Dave Moyes, when he does return to our shores from Spain, will immediately get a top job. Har har. Klopp, for the next few months, is football’s new messiah, an exotic figure who has Liverpool fans and TV cameras salivating. Shankly, arriving at Liverpool, was a relative unknown. So was Fergie at Man United. When Wenger got his job, even Arsenal fans said Arsène who? God knows, being a messiah can be a burden . . . please log in to view this image Hunter Davies is a journalist, broadcaster and profilic author perhaps best known for writing about the Beatles. He is an ardent Tottenham fan and writes a regular column on football for the New Statesman.
Do you want a top quality league or a English league? Not saying there are no quality English guys (although they are lacking) but that the world is a big place with England being a very very small part of it. These clubs are all striving to be the best they can be so inevitably there will be more foreign than English. that goes for players as well as managers. Problem is, the PL is only the best financially. The competition isn't too bad either but it is somewhat lacking in quality
Is that the end – will we never see their likes again? Rest in pieces, British managers. You are never likely to manage another top club in your own top league. Clip-clop, clip-clop, here he comes. In English his surname means something – the sound of horses’ hooves in a corny Radio 4 Saturday drama – but in Germany, apparently, Klopp does not mean anything, apart from being a fairly common surname and the name of a castle. With the arrival of Jürgen Klopp at Liverpool, taking over from Brendan Rodgers – the man once considered the best of the krop, I mean crop, of present-day British managers – the managers of all our top clubs are foreign. Man City, Man United and Arsenal, along with Chelsea (who are bound to get a grip soon), plus Everton, Spurs, Southampton and Leicester (who’ll probably finish in the top half) have all got foreign gaffers. Even West Ham, currently lurking in fourth spot, are managed by the ever-amusing, ever-smart former eccentric Slaven Bilic of Croatia. If you want to find an English manager in England’s top league – and there are six still clinging on – you have to look at the bottom half of the table: Newcastle, Sunderland, Villa, Bournemouth, Swansea, or raise your eyes slightly higher to Palace, who are doing good under Alan Pardew But do you think he’ll get the Chelsea job if Mourinho gets the sack? José won’t go, of course. He has told us he won’t, and I believe every fib he utters, though he deserves a really good slap for the disgraceful way he treated Eva Carneiro, the Chelsea doctor. All non-Chelsea fans are loving his present predicament, not least because it’s a moral judgement on his behaviour. But would Pardew go to Chelsea, or Garry Monk of Swansea – two excellent, English-raised managers? No chance. Top jobs are for top managers. Which, alas, excludes all Brits. Klopp is a welcome addition to our game. He is very tall, a bit like a muscular version of the comedian Stephen Merchant, except for his teeth. Klopp’s teeth are enormous, like Ken Dodd’s rejects. They barely fit his mouth, which explains why he smiles so much. His English is excellent – yet earlier in his career, as a player and manager, he never played abroad. Shows how good the German education system must be. He did a wonderful job with Borussia Dortmund, winning the Bundesliga twice, putting Bayern Munich in their place; but then last spring, before the season was over, he announced that he was leaving Dortmund and football to take a sabbatical. In recent years, I can think of only Pep Guardiola of Barça taking voluntary leave while still at the top. Usually the bodies of managers end up dumped overnight in the car park, still screaming: it’s not fair, the owner loves me dearly, he said so, the refs are all ****ers, the fans are idiots, quick, where’s my lawyer. True or fiction? Damn it !
''But do you think he’ll get the Chelsea job if Mourinho gets the sack?'' ... Who's he talking about here - Klopp? Very strange little article.
"Is that the end – will we never see their likes again? Rest in pieces, British managers. You are never likely to manage another top club in your own top league. Clip-clop, clip-clop, here he comes. In English his surname means something – the sound of horses’ hooves in a corny Radio 4 Saturday drama – but in Germany, apparently, Klopp does not mean anything, apart from being a fairly common surname and the name of a castle." hated the intro so stopped reading.
I think English managers need to go overseas and get their recognition there before they come back. Look at what happened to him. . please log in to view this image Steve McClaren did well abroad but not so well at home.
I stopped reading at "toothsome". Any journalist poor enough to misunderstand a term in that way doesn't deserve 3 or 4 minutes of my time. Of course it's possible Davies finds Klopp tasty and attractive, but I don't think that's what he was getting at.
Jose Mourinho set to be on bench for Chelsea’s clash with Liverpool please log in to view this image <img 20151027100530" alt="Jose Mourinho is set to take his place in the dug-out for his side&#039;s match with Liverpool"> Jose Mourinho is set to take his place in the dug-out for his side's match with Liverpool Jose Mourinho is likely to be on the touchline at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, Sky sources understand. The Chelsea manager was charged on Monday by the Football Association "in relation to his language and/or behaviour towards the match officials in or around the dressing room area at half-time" during his side's 2-1 defeat to West Ham on Saturday. Mourinho has until 6pm on Thursday to respond to the charge, which only gives the FA a day to convene the independent panel and discuss the case before Chelsea take on Liverpool on Saturday lunchtime. http://www.skysports.com/football/n...n-bench-for-chelsea8217s-clash-with-liverpool
please log in to view this image Jurgen Klopp won his first Premier League game at the third attempt and is unbeaten as Liverpool manager after five matches
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang warns Liverpool players not to make Jurgen Klopp angry Published yesterday 1 Comments Borussia Dortmund’s in-form striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has warned Liverpool’s players not to make Jurgen Klopp angry - they won’t like him when he’s angry. The 26-year-old, who has been linked with a move to Anfield in recent weeks, has tipped Klopp to “work his genius” with the Merseyside outfit - according to BBC World Service sports reporter John Bennett - but hinted that the jovial German coach is capable of losing his temper. “It's a club with a lot of history,” Aubameyang was quoted as saying about Liverpool. “Klopp will work his genius there. My advice for the players? Don't make him angry."
