Jurgen Klopp is at risk of his Liverpool reign finishing with a whimper ahead of leaving Anfield at the end of the season
As Jurgen Klopp ’s tenure as Liverpool manager nears its end, there are parallels between how his time at Borussia Dortmund unfolded.
It was a similar story for Klopp when he announced his decision to step down as Dortmund manager back in April 2015. While Liverpool beat Chelsea to win the League Cup back in February, they risk Klopp’s final season ending with a whimper as his side run out of steam. “We kept losing games in the exact same way over and over again,” Peter Krawietz, Klopp’s rusted assistant who followed him from Borussia Dortmund to Liverpool, later recalled in Raphael’s Honigstein’s biography of the German manager, ‘Bring The Noise’.
“If it was necessary, Klopp upped the volume. He shook us up a bit, to wake us up. Not by saying, ‘You have to play something different, boys, it’ll be tough’. "If I'd known before the start of the season that we'd put such a winning run together, I'd have announced my departure back then!” he joked at the end of the season. “Seventh place feels brilliant!”
But in hindsight, it is easy to suggest that the German perhaps should have kept the decision under his hat for longer and such timing has backfired on Liverpool at the business end of the season. Only Klopp will know just how much of an impact Dortmund’s improved fortunes after his future was known back in 2015 had on the timing of his exit announcement back in January, and whether he was trying to replicate that at Anfield..
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