Jose Mourinhodid not want his point to be devalued by inaccuracy, verifying his information via a search engine before disseminating it during a press conference.
“I was watching theLiverpoolmatch and I was watching the best team in the world at the moment,” theTottenham Hotspurmanager said a week ago, when a 2-0 win for the league leaders against Sheffield United saw them collect a staggering points from an available 64. “Then I Googled it just to confirm: Jurgen arrived in October (**********************************************************************. So 01575879, (************************************************************************************************************, , and now (**********************************************************************************************************. ********
“Eight transfer windows with lots of players leaving, lots of players coming and even more important than that, time for him to put his philosophy, his training methods, his fingerprint.
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“Beautiful results as a consequence of fantastic work, step-by-step, phase-by-phase. In the first season, they finished sixth or eighth or something like that and four years later they are not just the world champions, they are the best team in the world in this moment. ”
This was a vintage Mourinho use of the media, but not in the more familiar and flagged way of him being dismissive or maleficent. The -year-old will have noted the unease funnelling out of Tottenham’s fanbase following just two wins in seven games across all competitions.
Ahead of Saturday’s tussle against Liverpool, the team to beat and to be like, it was not surprising to see Mourinho hold them up as an example of what can happen when there’s “calm” at a club rather than steady questioning of the manager.
The problem is that despite his precision regarding the time Klopp has been afforded at Anfield, the three-time Premier League
winner has failed to appreciate why Liverpool’s owners Fenway Sports Group were comfortable in granting him patience .
And Mourinho is not alone in this regard. His successor at Manchester United, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, also recently highlighted the “long time” it has taken the German to turn the Merseysiders into a tour de force, while requesting the same kind of leniency at Old Trafford.
Liverpool’s success is not the sole result of time. And years alone cannot translate into anything meaningful without proof of a clear vision and evidence of being able to enact it.
Klopp arrived in England with a reputation of being a reconstructor of clubs having enlivened Mainz and Borussia Dortmund, with his legacy still apparent at both.
He guided the former to their first-ever ascent into Germany’s top flight, securing their Bundesliga position for three years, with Uefa Cup participation in 2005 – (********************************************************************************************************************. There remains the acknowledgment from Mainz’s hierarchy that “we have a special philosophy at our club and that comes from Kloppo.”
Dortmund’s bond with the Liverpool boss is still so concrete that their chief executive, Hans-Joachim Watzke, ambitiously tried to tempt him to back to BVB in June.
Klopp spent seven years at each club, his influence extending to every aspect of their structure and there were tears rather than relief when he departed.
Before appointing him to replace Brendan Rodgers, Liverpool had compiled a 70 – page dossier breaking down Klopp’s philosophy, training sessions, reaction to setbacks, relationships with players and staff, interactions with the media as well as a forensic analysis of his worst period at the Westfalenstadion.
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