Not that there??s anything new here, just some old, fond, familiar flavours. Cut the Premier League season open anywhere you like in the last decade or so and the chances are you??ll find Jos?? Mourinho contemplating another potentially season-spoiling trip to Anfield. Or the latest eminent tactician scratching his head and wondering why previously workable defensive systems have been infected with the dreaded Premier League flakiness. Not to mention an agreeably sweeping clash of styles, in this case muscular team defence versus adrenal, scattergun attack.
As ever when these teams meet the occasion will be touched by a
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There is a tendency to obsess over the influence of managers, to hoist them aloft as a straw man, patsy and all-round pi?ata for every misstep, every note of misfortune, every beached ambition. In this case there is an unavoidable circularity. On Saturday it will be almost exactly two years since Klopp became Liverpool manager. Progress has been made. Albeit, as ever in the Premier League, this raises the more metaphysical question of how exactly progress is measured, what gauge you apply to success.
There are plenty of obvious ticks. Liverpool are in the Champions League. They have reached two cup finals. They play
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Opponents have been less amenable. Liverpool will pick up their
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Last week Klopp insisted, as he must when asked a silly question, that Liverpool are still in the title race. Given the lavish spending elsewhere, the sense of a three-team elite ready to break away at the top, few will have expected Liverpool to be pushing for the title right
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Klopp has always been about method and coaching rather than headline recruitment. He does, though, need the basic human tools. It has become fashionable to pick away at his tactics, his previous successes, to take a shot at a much-trailed overseas coach. But the current tactical plan ?C press hard, play on the edge
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This is the conundrum Klopp faces at a club without the will to recruit the correct personnel. The hard-running Klopp style demands, as a first principle, a striker to run and harry and lead the press. These players are available. But those who can also finish every half?chance while also leading the charge are both rare and prohibitively expensive. Klopp needs a centre?forward with Daniel Sturridge??s eye and Roberto Firmino??s heart. They had one a while ago. He went to Barcelona for ??75m.
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