Originally Posted by Mark F:
“Klopp isn't silly - he will only have a pop at the pundits he knows the Liverpool fans hate.
Its where Roy Hodgson started to go wrong - he praised Sir Alex Ferguson and Man U generally which was a big no no with the Liverpool supporters.
That was even he just turned rubbish..”
“Klopp isn't silly - he will only have a pop at the pundits he knows the Liverpool fans hate.
Its where Roy Hodgson started to go wrong - he praised Sir Alex Ferguson and Man U generally which was a big no no with the Liverpool supporters.
That was even he just turned rubbish..”
So what might Liverpool fans think?
Here's Liverpool fanzine editor Steven Kelly writing for Irish Examiner in their 'Terrace Talk' feature today:-
Quote:
“That desperate cloak of reasonableness I tried on after Bournemouth was a bad disguise which fooled nobody. Generally the response was “you feeling okay?” Fair enough, but what else can you do but try to put it behind you? Fat chance of that if your goalie mouths off to Gary Neville and mocks his managerial ‘career’.
They all think like that in football. What have you ever done, son? Well, Neville may be a loudmouth but there’s some achievement backing it up, surely?
And he’s not spouted anything a lot of Liverpool fans haven’t said, either. Playing to the gallery and exploiting its distaste for all things Mancunian only gets you so far.
As far as your next error, in fact — which took him 20 whole minutes.
Klopp had already defended him by citing eight opportunities to clear danger before his compatriot’s Bournemouth blunder.
Isn’t that true of every goal scored? The manager’s been decisive early with the likes of Mignolet and Sakho, so it’s naive to expect him to say anything else I guess.
More screw-ups like Bournemouth and West Ham and maybe he’ll start mocking Neville’s wretched coaching too? At this level, where admittedly Klopp’s Liverpool are fresh-faced infants, this won’t camouflage things for long.”
“That desperate cloak of reasonableness I tried on after Bournemouth was a bad disguise which fooled nobody. Generally the response was “you feeling okay?” Fair enough, but what else can you do but try to put it behind you? Fat chance of that if your goalie mouths off to Gary Neville and mocks his managerial ‘career’.
They all think like that in football. What have you ever done, son? Well, Neville may be a loudmouth but there’s some achievement backing it up, surely?
And he’s not spouted anything a lot of Liverpool fans haven’t said, either. Playing to the gallery and exploiting its distaste for all things Mancunian only gets you so far.
As far as your next error, in fact — which took him 20 whole minutes.
Klopp had already defended him by citing eight opportunities to clear danger before his compatriot’s Bournemouth blunder.
Isn’t that true of every goal scored? The manager’s been decisive early with the likes of Mignolet and Sakho, so it’s naive to expect him to say anything else I guess.
More screw-ups like Bournemouth and West Ham and maybe he’ll start mocking Neville’s wretched coaching too? At this level, where admittedly Klopp’s Liverpool are fresh-faced infants, this won’t camouflage things for long.”
It really is a bit of a cop-out to have a go at Neville(s) just because of his past allegiances in the hope that's what Liverpool supporters will focus on. As mentioned, this ignores the fact that it was the resident Liverpool contingent who threw most of the goalkeeper-aimed punches this - and last - week.
It's also a cop-out to bring up his coaching.
None of us needs to be a coach to spot the basic errors in recent Liverpool goalkeeping displays...
Quite what someone's coaching experience has to do with having an opinion, especialy one which so many share, is beyond me.
Then again, he really is "playing to the gallery" but Liverpool fans aren't stupid either.
Having aid all that I do admire Klopp for attempting to defend his player; I personally think there were better - and less obvious - ways to do it.
Not a good performance.
