If Barcelona can sack Johan Cruyff then Liverpool can sack Jurgen Klopp. But he really should be given the time to rebuild.
Jürgen Klopp finds himself in a perilous position at Liverpool but it’s not unfamiliar. Football is cyclical. This is the seven-year itch; by the time successful coaches enter their eighth season, it can get precarious. Klopp initially had enough goodwill in the tank but the German looks bewildered and his side appear to be running on fumes.
Parallels can be drawn. Klopp is in legendary company. The best comparison would be Johan Cruyff’s coaching career at Barcelona. Cruyff’s game was a fine-tuning of Total Football which evolved via Rinus Michels and his love of unsung Hungarian coach Gusztáv Sebes. To oversimplify a complex set-up, it was a game based around possession, a high-tempo mix of pressing, movement, passing and triangles and being able to control and pass. It was about fluidity and required two full-backs who played as wingers to widen the pitch, then the wingers would come inside and get closer to the striker.
Initially, he drove teammates like Charlie Rexach and Juan Manuel Asensi mad but eventually, when they relaxed and were convinced by the Dutchman to play without fear, it clicked. He drove them to their first La Liga title in 14 years, including one hugely symbolic and political 5-0 victory over Real Madrid at the Bernabéu in February 1974.
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