That season marked the first league title won by Liverpool in the Premier League era. "I think there's rarely been a champion thats deserved it as much - they're on fire," said Stuttgart coach Bruno Labbadia when asked about Germany's youngest ever champions, who seemed as popular as they were effective. Henry, influenced by baseballs Moneyball statistical insurrection, honed in on Klopp after his name was identified by a team of leading mathematicians and data scientists as the right man for the job. By that stage the 40-year-old was already well known in Germany, not only for leading Mainz to the Bundesliga - before being relegated with them two years later - but also for his astute and charismatic observations as a pundit on mainstream TV coverage of major tournaments. Klopp has strengthened his front-line this season, adding Darwin Nunez over the summer and bringing in Cody Gakpo at the start of the January window. "Dortmund have insane amounts of quality," he conceded. Mount should really have put the Blues in front early in the second half but after going through one-v-one with Kelleher, his side-foot finish bounced off the post and to Liverpool safety. 2 How long did it take for Liverpool to win a trophy? That, allied to the arrival of Diogo Jota, Luis Daz, Darwin Nez and Cody Gakpo during subsequent transfer windows, has pretty much relegated Firmino to being Liverpools sixth-choice frontline option. Liverpool 5-3 Chelsea: Jurgen Klopp 'couldn't be more proud' after Reds lift trophy How Liverpool won the title. Hell soon be gone but its fair to say Liverpool will never forget Bobby. 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In doing so, whether deliberately or not, he has shown himself to be a disciple of Dr Carol Dwecks growth mindset - a learning theory that describes the very best of Klopps man management skills. Liverpool stride out onto the Bernabeu pitch on Wednesday 5-2 down on aggregate. Speaking in an interview with Jamie Carragher in April, Klopp explained: "In the very beginning [of my career] I was just much closer age-wise to the players. The supposed penalty specialist failed to save any of the 11 before nearly blasting his own spot-kick over the Wembley arch to confirm Liverpool's name on the trophy. Another stint in Germany or a return to Brazil could be on the cards, while there have also been reports of interest from Italy and the middle east. No one was questioning his finals record by the time of the 2022 Champions League showdown with Real Madrid. 7 trophies lifted and the Club World Cup. Next up was heartbreak in the Europa League final, as his ever-improving Liverpool side were foiled by the Europa League experts Sevilla. "I have no clue what it means to (our rivals for the top four) but I think they realise already we are not completely gone. United look a team reborn under Ten Hag, having won the League Cup last week to lift their first major trophy since 2017. He has played 290 games under Jurgen Klopp so far, registering 176 goals and 76 assists. Even for Jurgen Klopp, the manager of what must now be considered the best Liverpool side since at least the 1980s, this was the breaking of new ground at Wembley. Setting an early marker as someone for the big occasion, Lewandowski came off the bench to score for Dortmund for the first time. It wasnt about their technical ability as footballers. We can have a close relationship, and the closer you get, the more you have to tell the truth to the boys, because they judge you on that. Jurgen Klopp does his best dad dancing and young fan lifts the trophy with the team as Liverpool celebrate record breaking Carabao Cup triumph Jackson Cole 27th February 2022, 11:34 pm Klopp has won an illustrious 12 trophies across his time managing at Mainz, Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool, including the UEFA Champions League. United look a team reborn under Ten Hag, having won the Carabao Cup last week to lift their first major trophy since 2017. United look a team reborn under Ten Hag, having won the League Cup last week to lift their first major trophy since 2017. Here's your Liverpool morning digest as Luis Diaz continues his recovery in training and what will Roberto Firmino's last act be? He excelled in a 4-1 win for Klopps side, scoring one goal, providing assists for two others and generally tormenting the hosts up until his substitution on 77 minutes. A friend has to tell you the truth, what they want better, what is right or wrong, but never in a manner that they cannot get up the next morning and do it. Jurgen Klopp has won his first trophy since the 2012 German double with Borussia Dortmund Liverpool erased the disappointment of last season's Uefa Childhood Dortmund fan Grokreutz was the unlikely hero, as the hard-running midfielder playing for his local club got the first two goals in a 3-1 success. Future Dortmund captain Marco Reus then saved Gladbach from the same fate with a late goal in a promotion/relegation play-off with Bochum. The midweek victory over Wolves closed the gap to fourth-placed Tottenham to six points with a match in hand and Spurs still to come to Anfield. Their greatest ever manager never did and Ten Hag has smartly plugged into that. Copyright 2023 Sporting News Holdings Limited. The Brazil international is set to leave Anfield at the end of the season, bringing his eight-year stint to an end. When the season did kick off, Dortmund suffered an opening day defeat. Friends off the pitch, Thomas Tuchel (l.) and Jrgen Klopp (r.) went head-to-head with Mainz and Borussia Dortmund at the top of the table in 2010/11. To be at the unveiling on Friday morning was to be left in no doubt that Liverpool have landed a trophy manager. It turned out to be Man and as this season has gone on the sense has only grown that Liverpool are far less of a force without the Senegalese. Jrgen Klopp etched his name into Bundesliga history in 2010/11 before winning a league and cup double a year later. Paul Merson predicts the result of Liverpool vs Man Utd and other PL GW 26 fixtures! Upon the conclusion of the 2014-15 season, manager Brendan Rodgers was under substantial scrutiny after a poor season in which Liverpool fell to sixth place in the Premier League, having come close to winning the title the season before, and had failed to win any trophy for the third season running.Klopp and former manager Rafael Please logout and login again. Every trophy Jurgen Klopp has won at Liverpool. Sports Brief also reported on Klopp admitting Liverpool misses Mane, saying the Senegalese's departure has opened a void in the team's front three. That decisive period followed an earlier Enter the world of the most comprehensive sports information. The last day of August 2019 and Liverpool have just beaten Burnley 3-0 at Turf Moor with a display that is as dominant as it is devastating. Jurgen Klopp revitalized Liverpool Football Club since he took the helm in 2015. Teenager Mario Gtze made his first Bundesliga start as they lost 2-0 at home to Jupp Heynckes Bayer Leverkusen, a side that featured Michael Ballack, Sami Hyypia and Arturo Vidal. Klopp previews Liverpool's Premier League clash with Man Utd and has won every trophy going under the Firmino is far from the first member of Liverpool's The Senegalese international called it quits on his time at Anfield at the end of last season and requested a move away - which was granted - to join German champions, Bayern Munich. Liverpool have never won the League Cup, FA Cup, the domestic title and European Cup in the same year, but having seen off Chelsea here at Wembley, that gigantic, almost laughably impossible task now stands in front of them, within the grasp of the best collection of footballers in decades on Merseyside. He has also won the Premier League's 'Manager of the Year' accolade twice. The Reds have proudly won six European Cups more than any other British team. In Luis Diaz, the Reds had the game's outstanding performer, but there was nothing between the sides at the break, despite Klopp's men exerting the most pressure after the first 15 minutes or so. Your login session has expired. Sure enough, they quickly recovered to chalk up consecutive victories over VfB Stuttgart, Wolfsburg and Schalke. Over the years it has been a fixture which has led to the team considered to be weaker or struggling to elevate their performance but not last season. He took charge at Liverpool in October 2015. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp said he was "overwhelmed" and saw his players in tears after they completed the biggest Champions League semi-final comeback to beat Barcelona 4-3 on aggregate. 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Klopp's team won 23 and lost only five of their 34 matches, and boasted the best defence with just 22 goals conceded. "Now I have really, really young players. The Reds boss said: "First of all, its difficult - pretty much impossible - to be happy about something at Man Utd when you are the Liverpool manager for seven-and-a There were no goals and little to write home about. Follow Sports Brief on Twitter for more trending and breaking news! Klopp also won the DFL Supercup on two occasions in 2013 and 2014. Jrgen Klopp (l.) coached a 21-year-old Robert Lewandowski (r.) in what was the Polish striker's first season in the Bundesliga with Borussia Dortmund. [, Roberto Firmino, va his agent, Roger Wittman: Ive had my time but its time to go. Try Flashscore News. Klopp is quick to talk down his own influence in shaping the psychology of his team but at almost every opportunity, the German urges them to embrace challenge, to strive for constant improvement and to disregard their fear of failure. He wont extend his contract. Firmino's agent Roger Wittmann confirmed the player's decision on Friday, though his next move is still up in the air. | James Milner is currently heading for the Liverpool exit door in the summer. Guardiola - "Newcastle will be a real threat to the title soon", Howe rues lack of clinical edge after Newcastle defeated again, Highlights - Man City 2-0 Newcastle United, Silva - "The team has a good spirit at the moment", Silva strikes as Man City double their lead, Foden dances through Newcastle's defence to score opener, Guardiola Intelligence is an attribute a player should have. He won his first cup final in 2012, adding the DFL-Pokal Cup to his collection by beating Bayern Munich 5-2. Goalkeeper Loris Karius threw the ball against Karim Benzema, who took advantage of the keeper's lapse in concentration to open the scoring. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. The story of the campaign was undoubtedly Dortmund, however, who won the league by seven points from Leverkusen and finished 10 points ahead of Bayern in third. The former Southampton forward missed the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar due to a leg injury he suffered a few days before the tournament and only returned to action at the weekend after coming off the bench against Union Berlin. Optimism is one of the most precious commodities to be in possession of as a football fan and those who follow the Reds have industrial quantities of the stuff right now. Now I have to deal with 33, 34-year-old players and also 16, 17-year-old players in the same squad. He But that shot should have been saved, with Karius again at fault. In 20 years if you want to talk about this team," Klopp said, "I would not be surprised if people would then say if we dont win anything any more, theyll say yeah they were good, but they should have won more. He excelled in a 4-1 win for Klopps side, scoring one goal, providing assists for two others and generally tormenting the hosts up until his substitution on 77 minutes. Klopp was voted England's best manager twice since arriving at Liverpool in 2015. Click here, Be the first one to comment on this story. And that is clear. In the 30-year drought Liverpool won the 2005 and 2019 Champions Leagues and three FA Cups, but the league triumph sees them return to the summit of English football. A young, new-look Borussia Dortmund quickly began to bond into an unstoppable Bundesliga team. Many had stood out. Lukasz Piszczek, a full-back and former winger, joined from relegated Hertha Berlin, while an unheralded attacking midfielder, Shinji Kagawa, signed after starring for Japanese second-tier side Cerezo Osaka. The 53-year-old boasts the best win ratio (60.3%) of any Liverpool manager to have taken charge of more than 50 games, bettering club legends Kenny Dalglish (58.3%), Bob Paisley (57.4%) and Rafa Benitez (55.4%). Please review our, You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. Before June 1, 2019, Liverpool had reached three major finals under Klopp but had lost them all. He has played 346 games under Jurgen Klopp, registering 107 goals and 78 assists in the process. Presumably, none of the Liverpool supporters will care too greatly that the kaleidoscope of banners they had unfurled in Madrid suddenly look so out of date. Elsewhere the 2010/11 campaign was producing some unexpected results. I became a manager when I was 33 and I had two players older than me in my team. United won the first trophy of the season last Sunday when they beat Newcastle in the Carabao Cup final. Despite a 12-point advantage, Klopp continued to play down Dortmund's title chances. February 24 2023, 12:28 pm A subsequent top-four finish meant Liverpools return to the Champions League, albeit via the qualifying play-offs, for the following 2017/18 season a campaign which proved to be the coming out party for Klopps Liverpool on the European stage. Klopp, quite rightly, will not concern himself with those thoughts just yet, but there is no harm in fans taking the opposite approach. Liverpool Manager Jrgen Klopp won his first Champions League title after two earlier defeats. Supporters, however, do not have to be bound by that same mentality - they should dare to dream. Jurgen Klopp's wait for a major trophy goes on following Liverpool's 3-1 defeat to Real Madrid in Kiev. Liverpool have won the Community Shield for the first time since 2006. It was also no surprise for him to have dinner with Ferguson at an Italian restaurant in Cheshire but the timing was interesting: ahead of arguably the four most crucial games of Uniteds season. While numbers and statistical models demonstrated his potential value to the team on their quest to secure Premier League and Champions League titles, it quickly became clear that Klopps greatest attribute was beyond the quantitative. Jrgen Klopp praised the 'important' collective performance that carried Liverpool to a 2-0 win against Wolverhampton Wanderers. Building a squad based around emerging talents aged 21 or under like Sven Bender, Kevin Grokreutz, Mats Hummels, Nuri Sahin, Marcel Schmelzer and Neven Subotic, Dortmund improved each year to finish sixth and then fifth. With our sport packages offering BT Sport, the NOW Sky Sports Membership and Prime Video, you won't miss a second of the live action. By Will Rooney. What transpired etched another famous European night at Anfield into the history books forever as they overwhelmed, outgunned and outfought the Catalan giants on their way to a deserved 4-0 win a result made all the more remarkable by the absences of injured duo Salah and Firmino. How good must it feel to know that all of this Wembley colour and cheer could merely be the glorious prelude to the most sensational conclusion of any season of any era at Anfield? The argument was that despite having not won the title since 1990, before Jurgen Klopp finally delivered it again in 2020, Liverpool had stayed big and stayed relevant. His obsession with a dominant Liverpool, when he arrived from Aberdeen in 1986, had been clear.Jamie Carraghers subsequent argument may ring true that it was Liverpool, and not United, who knocked themselves off their perch with poor decisions and were out of contention when Ferguson won his first title in 1993 but so do the words of a United executive more recently. Liverpool stride out onto the Bernabeu pitch on Wednesday 5-2 down on aggregate. WebLiverpool career. Liverpool stride out onto the Bernabeu pitch on Wednesday 5-2 down on aggregate. "We just looked to see how far we could take it. James Milner has been an incredibly important player for Liverpool since Jurgen Klopp's arrival at Anfield. He made the people happy it says on the statue of Bill Shankly that stands outside the Kop. It was a fun match between young, high-energy teams and a glimpse into what the two tacticians would later bring to Chelsea and Liverpool, but Klopp's side were further down the line with their aggressive pressing and rapid counter-attacks. Undeterred, Liverpool promptly returned to the tournament finale the following season, pulling off arguably the most remarkable comeback in Champions League history along the way. It's exactly the same as with my sons. Roberto Firmino is currently in the last year of his contract at Anfield. The argument was that despite having not won the title since 1990, before Jurgen Klopp finally delivered it again in 2020, Liverpool had stayed big and stayed relevant. A smile for all occasions, and a smirk for even the most awkward of them. The senior figure said it was actually more important for United to finish above Liverpool, and for them to struggle, than it was for United to be ahead of any of their other rivals. Divock Origi and Ibrahima Konate later joined the fray as Klopp made full use of a squad everyone is now championing as the strongest for many, many years. WebAnswer (1 of 3): I would say with much conviction that yes, he has been a successful manager at Liverpool. Jrgen Klopp got so caught up in Borussia Dortmund's celebrations after the win over Bayern Munich in February 2011 that his glasses were broken. Can Takuma Asano and Bochum get the better of Maya Yoshida and Schalke in a relegation six-pointer on Saturday? Roberto Firmino signed for Liverpool under former manager Brendan Rodgers during the summer transfer window of 2015. It was about who they were as human beings and everything they had overcome in life. Klopps revolutionary brand of football, which had helped popularise tactical innovations such as the gegenpress, had seen him rise to notoriety and become Liverpools number one target following a forensic search by American owner John W. Henry. WebJrgen Klopp made Liverpool champions of England, Europe and the world within five years of his appointment at Anfield in October 2015. Full throttle was what this young side did best, according to Watzke, and they continued to relentlessly reel off wins in the same way they hunted down the ball. And at the back with Hummels and Subotic, there are two players who guarantee that you often keep a clean sheet.". Before a 30-year wait for the league title ended Contents show 1 How long did it take Klopp to win his first Liverpool trophy? He embraced Ferguson at Wembley last Sunday after winning his first trophy: the Carabao Cup. 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Quite simply the trio were made for each other and over the course of five years established themselves as one of the most aggressive, thrilling and decisive attacking units European football has ever seen. Back then there was never the prospect of Klopp admiringly describing United as a results machine as he did ahead of this meeting.The difference Erik ten Hag has made, rather like Klopps arrival at Liverpool, has been astonishing. The German manager has helped the Reds win one Premier League title, one UEFA Champions League trophy, one EFL Cup, one FA Cup, one UEFA Super Cup and one FIFA Club World Cup. WebRT @datchughuy: Took Pep a season and half before he won his first trophy at city Took Klopp 3 seasons before he won his first trophy at Liverpool Took Ten Hag 7 months to win his first trophy at United, CLASS!! "They have turned into a results machine. jurgen Klopp says Sunday's clash with arch-rivals Manchester United feels like a 'derby to him'. The Brazil international has been a key player for the Merseyside outfit ever since. He then added two DFL-Super Cups in 2013 and 2014. The new arrival's first two seasons were nonetheless promising. The Reds have collected 10 points from their last four Premier League matches and will seek to extend that positive run when they face their rivals this weekend. As Andrew Robertson put it after that win over Burnley in August 2019: People will say there are better strikers, but what he does is so important to our team. "Social media came in, players are much more in-demand with television, newspapers, everything. The argument was that despite having not won the title since 1990, before Jurgen Klopp finally delivered it again in 2020, Liverpool had stayed big and stayed relevant. "It's one of the most beautiful days," BVB sporting director Michael Zorc, who won the league with Dortmund as a player twice in the 1990s, said afterwards. Liverpool transfer news, rumours, gossip and speculation including updates on Roberto Firmino, Manuel Locatelli, Naby Keita and Mason Mount. He won the award in the 2019/2020 season and the 2021-2022 season. "It was always the same, I was always really close with the boys, wanted to be close with them, and wanted them to feel faith and trust, so I never had to change, or nobody told me to change. But inside the club his impact was obvious. On social media, Liverpool fans could not help but try and coerce Mane to return to the club. Watch every Premier League TV game on BT TV. Jrgen Norbert Klopp is a German professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Premier League club Liverpool. He won all possible trophies, including the UEFA Champions League and Liverpool's first Premier League title in 30 years. Sadio Man, Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino embrace in celebration during Liverpools victory over Roma in April 2018. The German said (via The Liverpool Offside): James Milner is currently in the final year of his contract with Liverpool and could seek a move away from the club once his current deal expires. Although the club won't be making any finals in 2022-23 barring a shocking comeback in the Champions League, the Reds made it to three finals in 2021-22 alone. They were far from the last. "It's crazy how much each one of them has improved over the last three years," a beaming Klopp said of his squad in the wake of the Nuremberg win. He [Firmino] will LEAVE Liverpool after 8 years! 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The Brazil international, like many of his team-mates, has struggled this season and that has contributed to some of the Reds' defensive issues as the holding role has become something of a revolving door with different options tried in an attempt to find a solution. Jurgen Klopp says not all of his Liverpool side "are kids anymore" and has urged them to put pressure on the sides above them in the Premier League. There always seemed a sense of inevitability around Jurgen Klopps appointment as Liverpool manager.