It was an interesting move.
Now imagine that had been Chelsea. Jose would have been on the TV scowling and spitting about Pulis and his tactics, moaning about Gardner's tackle, the ref, etc. And everyone would have said what a graceless twat he was and been talking about their failure to beat West Brom. Yet Klopp has done pretty much the same thing but because he did a bit of a stunt with his players, he's comp,etely deflected attention from all the negatives. So opposing fans might take the piss a bit but no one's talking about the real negatives and all the Liverpool fans love him.
- They've just rescued a point with a lucky deflection;
- His home record is worse than Rodgers was in his games in charge this season;
- The euphoria of the wins against us and Chelsea has worn off;
- He's just had a pretty public spat with Pulis;
- He's whinged about West Brom's tactics;
- Skrtel got away with a two-footed lunge of the sort that saw Kompany sent off.
Perhaps if our manager showed more empathy with the fans then we might show a bit more passion.Considering how many get pissed off when players walk off and ignore the fans at away games, i'm surprised so many are laughing at them. He's just trying to show their appreciation and develop a stronger bond between him and the team and the fans regardless of the result. Nothing wrong with it in my opinion. It will most likely improve their atmosphere at home games, something we could do with.
Even just walking to the four corners of the ground and clapping the fans would be acceptable. Holding hands like a fucking primary school class on a day out into town makes my skin crawl. Manufactured shite for manufactured fans.
If we were to try it we'd have to do it with about 15mins left in the game otherwise no fucker would be there to see it.Considering how many get pissed off when players walk off and ignore the fans at away games, i'm surprised so many are laughing at them. He's just trying to show their appreciation and develop a stronger bond between him and the team and the fans regardless of the result. Nothing wrong with it in my opinion. It will most likely improve their atmosphere at home games, something we could do with.
Like all managers (not just in football) he's trying to bring something from his previous job which was successful and replicate it in his new workplace. I've done it, as I'm sure many on here have, and it would be wrong of me on that basis to be overly critical. He's not afraid of looking stupid and sometimes people like that can be inspirational when they pull something remarkable off out of the blue.
It was clearly ill-judged, badly timed and cringe-inducing, but that's what you're dealing with. A guy who doesn't mind looking a tit, if it means pushing the boundaries. He may be a bit of a loose cannon, but there's not necessarily anything wrong with that, if there's a strategy behind it.
I still really like him.
I think it was genius, and he's playing to the strengths of Liverpool FC.
They have a shit team who is going nowhere and a delusional fanbase. So after a draw the best thing to do instead of letting them talk about how they should be bigger than Real Madrid, is to make some crap choreographed trying-too-hard gesture so that they can all masturbate about how brilliant they all are, which is generally what they want to do as a result of any situation anyway.
This is the fanbase who use a heavily choreographed trying-too-hard gesture at the start of matches and congratulate themselves by pretending that this is atmosphere. At the end of a match using a heavily choreographed trying-too-hard gesture to deflect from the bad result is an extremely clever move from Klopp,
There would be tantrums and many stormings out were we to drop points at home to WBA. No offence. Just saying.I'd have liked Klopp here if we weren't getting Pep but I think it's fair to say he's found his home with those Scouse fuckwits. No other club in the country would lap that embarrasing shite up at the end of a home 2-2 against WBA like Liverpool.