Jurgen Klopp is about to get his pre-season wish after Liverpool transfer strategy change
Jurgen Klopp started his summer by outlining his one request from the Liverpool fanbase for this season.
Having come off the most disappointing campaign - and lowest finish - of any of his seven full terms in the Anfield hotseat, Klopp detailed what he wanted heading into a busy period for the club, both on and off the pitch.
"What I would like to ask for: trust us," Klopp said, in a chat with official club channels from the Reds' Black Forest training base in July. "We feel really responsible for what's happening here and we will do absolutely everything to have a season, in the best possible understanding, we will never forget. That's the plan."
It might sound odd for such a revered manager like Klopp to be pleading for trust but it does at least give an insight into the disquiet around the fanbase after that disappointing fifth-place finish.
At the time of speaking, which was in late July, Liverpool had lost big players who had contributed to so much success in the years previous and were about to shed two more from their ranks in captain Jordan Henderson and Fabinho. The departures of both of those, to Saudi Arabia, were not part of the wider plan that had been sketched out earlier in the year to rebuild the team.
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Add in the fact Liverpool had seen big targets like Aurelien Tchouameni and Jude Bellingham move elsewhere and just Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai had joined as it ticked closer and closer towards August and there were plenty of reasons for why Klopp might have felt some patience and belief needed to be asked for.
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