NEIL ATKINSON is joined by Sean Rogers and Paul Cope to build the job description for Liverpool manager.
What should the targets be?
What is reasonable?
How should this thing work?
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Loved that hill-running analogy. Please put this one out for free – and then post it to every forum, and LFC fan on Twitter.
i love all the shows but the Tuesday review always delivers and is an excellent blend of looking at the same subject from a variety of perspectives, but with each perspective being intense and from a deep knowledge base. Its intresting the notion of dynasty because their has only ever been two in football. United under Fergie and us under the bootroom. Fergie changed many things but their was no plan after he left the most intresting part of the bootroom is it working under different managers and then promotion from within. I think FSG missed a trick with Kenny to build a bootroom with Steve Clak as a defensive coach and then finding other attacking coaches, Brendan Rodgers or Roberto Martinez for example, because the Liverpool Job is unique because you have to lead the City and be a Liverpool manager and say what all us fans want to hear which is something Kenny was always very good at. Its hard to run that and the team and this is where the bootroom was and still is ahead of the game because they had a massive team of coaches and scouts (for those days) that did a lot of the managers work, it also seems to be what Fergie did with Queiroz. If managers are burning out after 3 years its because they are doing too much. I hope Klopp will be the next manager but i want FSG to give him proper support, if their is an incident like their was with Suarez then somebody other than the manager needs to deal with this, or if you want the manager to be the figure head at the club you need to surround him with others to do the football thing. What we have seen from FSG is that all of their managers have been isolated and in need of support to take the heat off. If FSG want to be hands off and Ian Ayre want to be a non speaking CEO (a good thing IMO) why dont FSG create the post of Club president and give it to Kenny to allow Klopp be the best manager he can be for as long as he can be. Having a Director of football and a coach every 2 / 3 years is a continental thing. Can we not go back to a Liverpool thing and have an iconic manager thats a bit mad and them surround him people that make his job easier. As club president Kenny could go out and do all that side of things speak to the press to the (annoyance of them) sit on the transfer commitee and fight the manager corner and then go out and tap up new players. Mike Gordon et al can sign the cheques and do the negotiating but at least go in for players with a Klopp and Kenny pincer movement. At the end of the day the bootroom was about having over 350 years of football wisdom at your finger tips and using that wisom to change the pieces of the jigsaw as and when was required. If FSG are in it for the long term and are going out to get Klopp (a boss manager) then why not go further and support him with people that understand football in general and Liverpool in particular. There is no point in Klopp or any other manager being burned out in 3 years, and there is no reason why they should be if they have proper support at board level and at bootroom level
Normally love the show but the first 35-40 minutes were just appalling. Liverpool football club is not a branch of Wernham Hogg. You did turn it around at the end though :-).
No-one wants to hear about fucking KPI’s: we have enough of that in the workplace and guess what guys: it doesn’t work. We don’t want to infantiize our manager before he starts. Similarly we don’t want the board setting the manager up to fail. The discussions should be private and collegiate: this is what we’re aiming for, how will you get us there, how can we help you to get us there. The rest is up to the manager, he sets the tone for the club because its his arse on the line. Give him the tools he wants then shut up.
You’re right to point out that Liverpool is an odd city and an odd club. FSG will not have had a clue about that, they saw an opportunity and invested. It’s a steep learning curve. By appointing Klopp, someone, as you rightly point out, big enough to shoulder the dreams of this magnificent club, to harness the support, they’re showing signs that they ‘re learning at last.
Fantastic show, could listen to these guys all day!
So much content coming out so quickly I’m listening to things out of sequence. But another superb TR. Like Football Focus for people with O levels.