Liverpool FC

[Kenny's Heroes]

Teise värava puhul oli põhiline, et eespostis polnud kedagi. Ja mu teada käsutab mehi postide valvesse väravavaht. Kui ta selles kindel oli, et pole vaja, peaks ta ka olema valmis vähemalt esipost ära võtma. Mitte makaroniks vedelduma.

[Daz Booob]

[Redman]

Pole mingi Migsi suurim fänn aga IMO võetakse siin Migsi kallal väga mõttetult.

Esimene oli pöörde pealt, ühe puutega, täpselt posti kõrvale. Rohkem nagu super finishing kui väravavahi pirukas. Polnud mingit erilist nurka, et Migs oleks pidanud seal kindla peale palli ära võtma.

Teine on täielikult Lallana pläkk, kes esimesse posti tulevad madalad pallid peab ära klaarima ja kellel oli positsioon selleks olemas, aga kes seal lõpuks pealtvaataja oli. Ja ega Sakhogi kõige puhtam poiss pole. Algul on Giroud selja taga ja siis juba tema ees skoorimas.

Ma reaalselt ka ei jõua silmigi pilgutada nii kiirelt alates hetkest, kui pall Giroust kergelt suunda muudab ja Migsist väravasse lendab.

[mcnamara]

Guardian pajatab miskipärast, et meil olla huvi Bilbao venna Inaki Williamsi vastu. On ka väärt noormees?

[JuriM]

Guardian pajatab miskipärast, et meil olla huvi Bilbao venna Inaki Williamsi vastu. On ka väärt noormees?

Talenti on kindlasti kuhjaga, Bilbao müüb enda mehi ikka väga kallilt tavaliselt ja teda peetakse suuremaks talendiks kui seda Iker Munain oli oma esimesel tulemisel.

Pikk ja jõuline parem ääreründaja peamiselt, aga on ka tipuründes mänginud.

[Tofoa]

Jones tuleks seebiks teha. Mignolet aga teiseks väravavahiks. Esiväravavahiks tuleks tuua kedagi asjalikumat. Minu arust belglane on nõrgem kui ükskõik millise teise Euroopa top 20 tiimi teine väravavaht. (Võib-olla mõne erandiga, kuid siiski). Jones on ka omakorda nõrgem kui teiste Euroopa top tiimide kolmas väravavaht.

alati on võimalik proovida teisi nimesid, kes on samuti paremad kui Mignolet': Mandanda, Begovic, Zieler, Baumann, Handanovic jne. Kõik mehed õige summa eest saadaval, ning ma usun, et Liverpool suudaks neid osta küll, kui tahab.

Mandanda leping suvel lõppemas, Begovic on Chelsea pingile maandunud ning Zieleri, Baumanni ning eriti Handanovici eest tuleks pappi lauale visata. Tundub nagu ideaalne aeg Lõuna-Prantsusmaale reisida.

Eks siin aasta jooksul ole mõned head väravavahid veel pead tõstnud, aga ehk oleks aeg kindla peale minna ning üks kvaliteetne puurilukk (Mandanda) endale järgmiseks 4-5 hooajaks hankida. Mignolet soojendagu pinki.

[RealFan]

Guardian pajatab miskipärast, et meil olla huvi Bilbao venna Inaki Williamsi vastu. On ka väärt noormees?

Bilbao meeskonnast mehi on äärmiselt raske kätte saada. Aga olen näinud mainitud härrat paaril korral mängimas ning jättis väga hea mulje. Osav, jõuline, samas töötab ka kaitses kõvasti. Puuduseks võib-olla tsenderdused ning üldine sööduoskus. Võib mängida mõlemal äärel (pigem vist siiski paremal), tipus teda eriti ei kasutata minu teada.

[Saver]

Talenti on kindlasti kuhjaga, Bilbao müüb enda mehi ikka väga kallilt tavaliselt ja teda peetakse suuremaks talendiks kui seda Iker Munain oli oma esimesel tulemisel.

Pikk ja jõuline parem ääreründaja peamiselt, aga on ka tipuründes mänginud.

Väidetavalt siis on mees ka Arsenalil sihikul - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...ga-season.html

[Ibanez]

Palun kütke homme Unitedile saun! Ainus miinus selle juures oleks muidugi LvG sackimine, kuna mingi järgmise treeneriga nad nii palju nalja ei pruugi enam pakkuda.

[Kenny's Heroes]

Artiklid Kloppi vasaku ja parema käe meestest, üsna hea lugemine. (kuna RAWKis miskipärast polnud artikli linki, panen jutu siia:

 

Liverpool’s famed bootroom has now become the Anfield beatroom.
“We are like a music band, with their own instrument,” says Jurgen Klopp’s assistant coach Peter Krawietz. “Jurgen is the band leader, and others are behind him playing the bass guitar or drum. I’m not sure which instrument is mine!”
Klopp may be the charismatic front man, but from the moment he accepted the call from Fenway Sports Group he came as part of a trio. Long-term aides Krawietz and Bosnian Zeljko Buvac have been part of the ensemble since his first management job in Mainz.
It has been too long since the Anfield coaching unit followed the template of Bill Shankly, his celebrated think-tank of Bob Paisley and Joe Fagan mulling over opponents with a neat whisky.

Brendan Rodgers absorbed all coaching responsibilities for three years and discarded his backroom staff when the pressure took its toll. For Kenny Dalglish’s second spell the appointments of Steve Clarke and Kevin Keen were taken independently. Not since Rafa Benitez arrived with Pako Ayesteran and Paco Herrera – a relationship which disintegrated in their third season on Merseyside – has Liverpool’s management set-up been so reassuringly tight and harmonising.
When the idea of Klopp becoming English football’s archetypal, dictatorial boss is put to Krawietz there is a laugh.

“Yes, yes. Say this. Put in Jurgen is a dictator!” he says, shaking his head before adding a clarifying ‘no, no, no’.
“It is very collaborative how we work. We’ve been this way since we started together. Many years ago a journalist in Germany said I was ‘the eye’ and Zeljko was ‘the brain’ and people repeat it. We could only laugh at this, see it as an invention and say ‘so what is Jurgen?’
“We are all part of the team here but it is different in Germany to England. Here, as a manager, there are so many more tasks around the club so me and Zeljko try to help as much as we can.”

With Klopp on lead vocals, Krawietz may prefer to be seen as a specialist in stage direction.
Where English dressing rooms once hosted flying tea cups and hairdryers, nowadays, half-time team talks are more likely to consist of video presentations, players shown clips of where they’ve gone wrong – techniques imported to Anfield directly from Dortmund’s Westfalenstadion.

“In Mainz and Dortmund video analysis was my main task,” says Krawietz. “Here it is different because we already have a department doing all this stuff and I try to prepare – filter all the information we need and prepare meetings for the team.
“Now we have the computer in the dressing room on a match day, a projector and then the screen.
“I don’t know if we were the first to do it when we started at Mainz but we like to immediately show the players what we mean. A manager can explain a situation, ask the player about it and then we can show him. You’ve got it there to see it. It makes it easy for players to understand.
“Hopefully it should mean you correct the faults every time. I’m making the list during the game seeing what is important for us, working out if the problem is one scene or a trend – maybe a defensive problem or spaces we are not using, or the opponent has changed their set-up.
“We use this, especially at the moment, to improve the development. It is very important to be able to react at half-time and show what we can do better. We also have the cameras outside on the training pitch to use if necessary.”

At Anfield, where the dressing room is notoriously small, this brings logistical problems. Klopp and his coaching staff are liaising with the architects of Liverpool’s new Main Stand to ensure the specifications are met when the players are relocated next season.
“We are really looking forward to the new stadium and a bigger dressing room. Of course we are taking that into consideration – the bigger space will be more comfortable for everyone,” said Krawietz. “It’s fair to say we couldn’t use the projectors it at Exeter last week!”

The relationship between Klopp and his most trusted advisors began at Mainz under the guidance of their former manager Wolfgang Frank, the coach Krawietz says had the most profound impact on Liverpool’s manager.
“Wolfgang Frank had an idea of football which was something like a revolution in Germany based on the Arrigo Sacchi style of pressing and defending,” says Krawietz.
“It was new in Germany to play in a back four and play this way. Mainz was the first to do it and the success was unbelievable. Frank was a very important person for all of us when he came to Mainz.

“Mainz was always in the second Bundelsiga and near the bottom. Every year a new manager would come in, we would be at the bottom, and then the manager would be out. Wolfgang Frank came in and changed the thinking of the club. Many of the players he worked with are managers today. He was the first to take us into the top league.
“I began as a student in the University of Mainz and he worked with my professor. I became part of the scouting team. That’s how I met Jurgen.
“When I started my work there was a situation where I presented my analysis, telling him what he should have done.

"‘What? Me?’ he said to me. It was very funny. It was my task to tell him what he’d done wrong. Then we had a ‘discussion’ – if I can put it like that - as he asked me why I suggested this. It was the first time we spoke about football I can remember. It was the start.
“I always saw the possibility of him becoming a manager. He was an important player for his team but not the best player, but he had the attitude, leadership skills and understanding of his game to know what he could and could not do. He was always thinking for the team. He was very interested in the tactics and it was clear he was an outstanding person.”
After their success at Mainz and Dortmund, Klopp was determined to reunite his coaching set-up.

“He called me and said there was the possibility of Liverpool and what did I think? He said he thought we should go and I was invited,” says Krawietz.
“I was enjoying the sabbatical so it was a surprising moment but I felt his conviction that Liverpool is the right place to go. I thought for two hours and then said ‘okay’.
“I see similarities between Dortmund and Liverpool. When we came to Dortmund there were more difficulties because there were some financial problems and the club was in a situation where we had to change a few things. But there was a big potential to improve. It is the same here. We see how we can develop and build on a good base for the future. We’re at a big club with huge support and the chance for development but it must be in small steps.

“We can’t just push the button and say ‘here we are’ and we know it will need hard work, but we’re ready for it.
“I don’t know why people should believe in us other than it is possible because this is a great club with brilliant colleagues and there is the potential here. We know what we can improve and how we can improve, so our ideas are clear of what we want to do and we have confidence our way is the right way.

The public perception of Klopp in England is one of an entertainer, both in terms of how he wants his side to play and also how he projects himself in front of the camera.
Those who know him best say there is no misrepresentation.
“I don’t watch him on the television, but this is how Jurgen is. We are all hard-working men who are completely serious on the pitch and in our work, but we are also people who like to laugh. We think football is to be enjoyed,” says Krawietz.

[Kenny's Heroes]

Ja teine tükk:

 

It is the morning after the titanic struggle with Arsenal and Zeljko Buvac, whom the Liverpool manager credits with being one of the tenets of his success, is among the first to arrive at the training ground.

“I think that there are titles which are not as positive as this one,” says Buvac with a smile. “If anyone says you are ‘the brain’ then you take that, but I am not someone who gets into the public and says, ‘I am this’.”

Clutching a coffee in a plastic cup there has already been an initial discussion with Klopp, but the analysis of the 3-3 draw comes later, together with Peter Krawietz (‘The Eyes’), and it is then that the deliberating begins for the visit of Manchester United.

Buvac will speak his mind. He and ‘Kloppo,’ as he invariably calls him, were team-mates at German club Mainz where they struck an agreement that their careers would forever remain interwoven.

The pecking order says manager and assistant, yet Klopp regards Buvac as an equal. They truly are inseparable.

“As players there was a direct connection straight away,” he said. “Kloppo as a player was the same as he is as a manager. His character was the same, he wants to win, you cannot help but like him.

“Both of us were looking to become managers and we promised each other, ‘If I am the first manager, I will take you and if you are the first manager you will take me.’ He came first. It is a friendship.

“Before every training session and after every training session we talk together. Before every match and after every match we talk.

“In training I am observing and watching and if I have the feeling something needs to be changed I will speak to Kloppo. We discuss it, ‘Why should this be? Why that?’ But it is a decision we come to together. That is the way in training and that is the way in the match.

“If it is necessary, I get up from the bench and that is okay. I don’t need to ask. Together with Peter we have six eyes. You see more than if only one man is looking.”

That managerial break for Klopp came at Mainz in 2001 before moving onto Borussia Dortmund and it is difficult to imagine the dynamic being the other way round.

Klopp is forever a coiled spring on the touchline where Buvac appears calmer, although rival Premier League benches may disagree.

Buvac had visited his parents in his native Bosnia following the departure from Dortmund last summer when the call came outlining a new adventure. It says much that Klopp told Liverpool’s owners during negotiations he comes as part of a triumvirate.

“I was enjoying the sunshine, but I always knew that I could get a call from Kloppo if he had been contacted by an interesting club,” said Buvac, 54.

“Liverpool is more than an interesting club that is clear. I knew that after Dortmund this was a good step as the next club. I don’t think he needed a long time to think about Liverpool. You must say ‘yes’.

“Liverpool has big tradition and the feeling was that with hard work you can create maybe a new era, new successes. That was part of the attraction.”

How hard is becoming clear. Buvac studies a sheet which shows Liverpool sit top of a mini-league of the so-called Big Six (Arsenal, City, United, Chelsea, Tottenham are the others), one which jars with their ninth place overall.

The inconsistency is obvious.

“It is just paper you know,” he said, brushing aside the significance of the mini-league. “The squad knows it is able to win against these clubs but it is important to have the same mentality to play against all the teams.

“The next step is to play as well as against Manchester City or Arsenal as against West Bromwich, for example, to play good consistently. And you need a little bit of luck and no injuries!

“It is difficult to compare Liverpool and Dortmund, but when we went there it was 2008 the quality of the players was not as high as it is in Liverpool now.

“There were very young players. Subotic was 19, Hummels was 19. We took these young guys in the centre of defence where before we had Robert Kovac and Christian Worns, who were both experienced. The quality of the players here in Liverpool is higher.”

The perception of their time at Dortmund is often of a sustained ascent. There were bumps in the road – a 5-1 defeat home defeat in Der Klassiker against a Bayern Munich side coached by Louis van Gaal being one.

Yet the following season, 2010-11, Dortmund won in Munich for the first time in 20-years en route to a league and cup double. It is a familiar theme in their career: pain followed by triumph.

“You learn by experiences like this,” said Buvac, whose focus when not on football has been getting to grips with English and driving on the left hand side.

“When you are always at the top you do not learn as much as when there are valleys and mountains. You don’t want to go through it, but it can be helpful.

“But even after a defeat the next day Kloppo is 99 per cent positive. He does not play that role. That is his character. He is not an actor.

“You can see in his face anything that he is feeling in his heart.”

And it was in those moments that ‘the brain’ gained his knowledge, too.

[K Punkt]

Ründes jääks nagu mehi väheks, aga küll Klopp teab, mis teeb.

Starting XI vs Man Utd : Mignolet, Clyne, Toure, Sakho, Moreno, Lucas, Henderson, Can, Milner, Lallana, Firmino.
Subs: Ward, Caulker, Smith, Allen, Teixeira, Ibe, Benteke.

[hannes10]

Ründes jääks nagu mehi väheks, aga küll Klopp teab, mis teeb.

Starting XI vs Man Utd : Mignolet, Clyne, Toure, Sakho, Moreno, Lucas, Henderson, Can, Milner, Lallana, Firmino.
Subs: Ward, Caulker, Smith, Allen, Teixeira, Ibe, Benteke.

Samas kolm asjalikku vahetust võtta. Peaasi, et esimesel poolajal mängu persse ei keera.

[ElNino9]

Rünnakul nii napib ikka, täielikult paremad väljakul muidu. Lallana nähtamatu ja Hendol jalg paigast ära vist.

[Redman]

See on meie kaitseliinile selle hooaja lihtsaim mäng. Sakho bossab igas olukorras, Toure sügab enamasti igavusest kotte, Migs pole ühtegi korda pidanud sekkuma. Mnjaa, nii võib veel puhas leht tulla (ptui-ptui-ptui).