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Originally Posted by demonrail666

Cool. Thanks!



I suppose that pretty much sums it up, although it could also be said that the situation at Dortmund (in relation to Bayern) was blocking Klopp's development as a manager, too. Never really being able to build a team, only react to its constant dismantling. So we'll need to see what he can do elsewhere, ideally in another league, before we can really judge him.

yeah, but i guess points 3 & 4 hold more truth to me-- not sure if it's because i've been saying those things for a long time-- not sure if you remember some post of mine where i said klopp's style required recruiting players at 19 and selling them at 25 (to the glue factory?). or something like that. so it's not just lack of fresh blood but that his style only works with young players.

and then the "lack of plan b". this is what makes klopp suspect in my eyes.

yes, he's having troubles, and yes they've been dismantling his team, and the scouting was no good, etc. but also he's had no tactical responses to others finding his weak spots, and the article describes exactly how they've done it-- and that lack of reaction is on him and him alone.

i've seen it all year this bundesliga season-- they give dortmund the ball and they are lost with it. even without gotze and lewandowski dortmund has a pretty great squad and lesser teams have beat them--repeatedly & consistently.

so maybe he stumbled upon his winning formula by chance, maybe it was a product of the players he had at one time-- and now that he has lesser players and people found out how to dismantle his scheme, he's got no tactical brain to produce a variant. please note i'm saying "maybe". but i can't explain why he'll insist on the same broken record and not switch things around in the face of abject failure.