Am I so round with you as you with me, that like a football you do spurn me thus?

A quote from Shakespeare as a title for this blog post. From the Comedy of Errors, Dromio asks Adriana, “Am I so round with you as you with me, that like a football you do spurn me thus?” wondering why she’s
metaphorically kicking him around like a football. This is exactly what some so-called Liverpool supporters are doing with Jürgen Klopp.

It would seem that everyone, even those not connected to Liverpool Football Club has had an opinion on our great football club and Klopp’s management in recent weeks and I for one don’t usually put pen to paper (or fingers to keys) in this way but needs must, enough is enough and I’ve read far too much nonsense to stay quiet and usually that nonsense comes from a few so-called fans who have never been to Anfield, have never stood on the Kop back in the day, have no idea what our traditions and values are and only jumped on the LFC bandwagon in 2005 when we miraculously brought the European Cup back to Anfield. Are you fuming? GOOD! These are the questions I ask myself though. Let’s not beat around the bush, the glory hunters are all for saying how it is in their deluded brains so this is my attempt at answering their ridiculous opinions regarding sacking the only good thing to come out of Liverpool since Istanbul. 

Back in 2015, it was obvious that the management had to change at Liverpool. Rodgers had taken us had far as he could and despite my reluctance to see him leave I welcomed a change. I just never thought that we would nab Jürgen Klopp, never in a million years do these kinds of things happen to us at Liverpool. Personally, I was rooting for Carlo Ancelotti, who had Premier League experience from winning silverware with Chelsea so in my mind, I was feeling that he could well be the obvious but safe choice. Klopp was a huge gamble as he was unproven in the Premier League and despite the plaudits, I’d heard about him my knowledge of German football was like Everton’s trophy cabinet – scarce at best!

But most supporters wanted Klopp and there he was, unveiled at Anfield, a 6ft 4 gurning German and instantly I was smitten. I brushed up on his football biography and instantly thought that his passion for football might just be a perfect fit for the passion of the Anfield faithful. Klopp could be any of us, jumping up and down on the sidelines, wearing his heart on his sleeve, saying exactly what he thought in the heat of the moment. There was nothing ‘normal’ about him despite his protests. Without meaning to ridicule Rodgers we were only used to him standing on the touchline taking notes like he was ordering a Chinese for the lads after the game. Now we had Jurgen and his heavy metal style of football played at in a style that would put Speedy Gonzales to shame.  I was thrilled with his managerial style, we all were.

Over the past few seasons, a lot has been said about the transfer committee. Can you really see Klopp bending to the will of any committee? Slowly he is bringing in the players that he wants and if he doesn’t manage to buy those players then there really is no plan B. Would we really want players at the club who aren’t Klopp players just to please a few fans? I would rather we had patience, waited for the right players to become available and brought academy players through the ranks. No, but you all want megastars, don’t you? Get your heads down from the clouds, until we start bringing home some silverware that is never going to happen.

Klopp and Liverpool are not without criticism, but it’s how we go about that criticism that shows what kind of supporter you are. In my view, we should be playing our strongest elven every game, this is the only way the team can gel. There is an enormous difference between playing a game in training to playing in front of fifty thousand fans, against an opposing team. I don’t understand Klopp’s thinking with the rotation of players, it doesn’t work, it never has and it must stop.

We can and should be critical without being abusive. There are some fans on social media who think that by stomping their feet and calling for Klopp to be sacked then that will make FSG have a rethink and decide to sack Klopp because the FIFA17 managers know better than Klopp ever could. My opinion on this is that they are showing themselves up as only being here for the glory and have no idea what it means to be a true supporter and they would be better suited to supporting a team (no names mentioned) who can buy that success at the drop of a hat.

Funnily enough, these so-called fans never say who will replace Klopp, all that they do is spew their hate-filled nonsense from behind a screen. It is easy to say ignore them but that’s easier said than done when idiots are abusing our team, there is no place at Anfield for hate and by being quiet about it you are basically condoning it. I’d like to give the naysayers a history lesson in the traditions and values of our great club, maybe then they will understand our illustrious past and realise that our story didn’t start in 2005 with one night in Istanbul.