Life after Klopp? The goal that proves that Xabi ball can send Anfield into another realm
Liverpool fans know all too well there will never be another Jurgen Klopp.
It’s the kind of connection you can’t replicate. There may yet be further success, some wonderful football and more great memories to come, but whatever comes next won’t be the same.
There’s inevitably and understandably a great deal of anxiety around Anfield about what comes next. Liverpool are by no means the only club that have forged a special bond with a manager who seems to take everything upon their shoulders.
Look at Manchester United after Sir Alex Ferguson. Arsenal after Arsene Wenger. Leeds after Marcelo Bielsa. Tottenham after Mauricio Pochettino. Different degrees of pure misery.
Just like Klopp at Liverpool, they were the project at their respective clubs. It’s so easy to envisage it all come crashing down the minute that Klopp and his coaching staff walk out the door for the final time in the summer.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
In the above examples, the clubs were in states of disrepair. Klopp has already taken on a lot of the renovation work and whatever happens in the remaining months of the 2023-24 campaign, will leave the club with a well-balanced squad with a bright-looking future.
“For me it was super, super, super-important that I can help to bring this team back onto the rails,” Klopp said in his leaving announcement.
“It was all I was thinking about. When I realised pretty early that happened, it’s a really good team with massive potential and a super age group, super characters and all that, then I could start thinking about myself again and that was the outcome. It is not what I want to [do], it is just what I think is 100 per cent right.”
It’s also worth considering that Manchester United, Arsenal, Leeds and Tottenham
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