The Klopp’s effect
It is called the Klopp effect. Liverpool‘s board and owners were very pleased with Liverpool’s football and Premier League glory last season and were blind to the fact that Arnold Slot is not a good manager.
They had a similar situation with Jurgen Klopp winning the Premier League, and they took the same course with their manager, who also won the Premier League. But Jurgen Klopp was a true Liverpool manager, the club legend who was leading the team with love, pleasure and great charisma. He is very great manager indeed. He is a manager who has brought Champions League glory to the Anfield Stadium.
Liverpool’s board thought that after winning the league, they had a manager who was like Jürgen Klopp, with the knowledge and managerial ability, and they rewarded Arne Slot with record transfer fees and brought in top-class players.
We have two similar situations with two completely different outcomes. The second has caused all the problems.
They were mistaken, because they thought Arne Slot had qualities close to Jürgen Klopp, but that was not the case. Their manager spent half a billion and then made his own team weak.
Not everybody is Jürgen Klopp, and that was the way the Liverpool board should have thought. Arne Slot is not capable of leading a club like Liverpool.
Arne Slot won the Premier League with Liverpool last season, with impressive football and dominated the league. They gave hundreds of millions to Arne for new players. That is the key problem: he is not good enough to be leading this team and has spent millions very badly.
The Premier League glory has made Liverpool’s ownership structure blind to the fact that Liverpool has played badly since March — losing in the Champions League, losing in the Carabao Cup final against Newcastle, and suffering a disaster in the FA Cup when Plymouth outplayed Liverpool.
Klopp is a much better manager than Slot.
They should not have been following the pattern and should not have copied the same situation with the same reaction.
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