Whenever an appraisal of the greatest English Premier League football managers of the 21st century is made, the dynamic inputs of German-born Jurgen Klopp to the resurgence of Liverpool FC will be highlighted in several chapters of the dissertation. His results turned Liverpool FC, from a team spoken about in retrospect to a world-beater compared with the very best football teams in the world.
JURGEN KLOPP’S ARRIVAL TO
LIVERPOOL FC
Jurgen Klopp did not arrive at Liverpool
FC, unannounced; his achievements at Borussia Dortmund FC already heralded him
as a modern coach with a high-octane pressing and attacking football philosophy
that would always leave
his opponents at the edge of their seats as highlighted by Pep Guardiola in his
tribute to Klopp.
Within two years of joining Liverpool
FC, he rebuilt the team by integrating an efficient spine comprising Mohammed Salah and Saido Mane in the attack, Nabil
Kaita in the midfield, then Virgil Van Dijk and Allison Becker in the defense.
It didn’t take a century for his team to begin to make an impact and it’s that team
evolution that has crest his legacy on the minds of every Liverpool FC
supporter and the football World in general!
Several other coaches had managed
Liverpool FC in the twenty-first century before Klopp but could not take them
to their apogee of the mid-1970s and 1980s under Bob Paisley and Joe Fagan. They
reigned for most parts of the last quarter of the twenty-first century as a
rather mid-table team, falling in and out of oblivion. He
transformed the club and currently has won seven major titles for Liverpool FC,
including the English Premier League, European Champions League, and every other
title of the English Football Association, including several appreciable
mentions.
He exudes so much confidence
and his aura attracted several good players to his team, turning them into world-beaters who continue to compete with the best in the world. Mohammed Salah had
not fully patched his failed stint with Chelsea FC and his sojourn with Roma
and Fiorentina FC in Italy when he joined Liverpool FC. With Klopp, Salah has
achieved football legendary status, rising to become the highest goal scorer,
in LFC history and winning the African Footballer of the Year Award. The same
transformation happened to Saido Mane, Virgil Van Dijk, Trent Alexander Arnold,
Allison Becker, and several others.
Jurgen
Klopp remains a coach greatly loved and respected by Liverpool FC supporters
and as a testament of how much his legacy has rubbed on him, he’s foreclosed
any possibilities of ever working for any other team within the English Premier
League. He’s also highlighted the strength of the team he’d be
leaving behind.
Klopp has not foreclosed
returning back to coaching and his return would be a hugely anticipated wait
about when it would happen and what team he’d be joining. His indelible
imprints on world football would remain for long and whenever he chooses to
return, Jurgen Klopp would be greatly sought after. When this time, comes,
he’d likely emerge better!
