Written by Harrison Prolic at Bloguin
It wasn’t hard to see how excited Liverpool supporters were about Jürgen Klopp’s appointment at Anfield. After weeks of calling for Brendan Rodgers to be let go, the fans got their wish. Klopp started his run as manager with a 0:0 draw away to Tottenham, not the best result, but it was his first game. Weeks later the club still hasn’t won with Klopp at the helm. These days soccer fans don’t have a great deal of patience, but surely the Liverpool faithful won’t start hiring pilots to fly “Klopp raus” banners any time soon, will they? No probably not.
Ideally, Klopp would already be in the win column with his new team, especially being up a man for a half against Rubin Kazan. Klopp is in charge of a new team for the first time in seven years so there is going to be some growing pains. The question is, how patient will everyone be if the team keeps drawing, or worse yet, starts to lose? The answer to that should be very patient. At least until Klopp has had a chance to spend some money. There will be plenty of rumors in January and over the summer about some of Klopp’s old players coming back to play for him in England. However, these are just hearsay, no use going on about them
Hypothetically, let’s say that Klopp continues to grind out draws and the team still has trouble scoring. In this scenario, Klopp’s biggest problem will be his reputation. It’s unfair to expect Liverpool to play like Borussia Dortmund, but you could argue that a lot of people were expecting Liverpool to come out at White Hart Lane and immediately start playing Klopp’s famous heavy metal football. Dortmund won two Bundesliga titles under Klopp, a German Cup, three Super Cup’s, and pushed Bayern Munich right to the edge in the 2013 Champions League Final. These records gave Klopp some serious clout, but they also raised expectations. When Klopp joined Dortmund after coaching Mainz he was a relative unknown. Not much was expected of him, unlike now.
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