Dortmund
Early last week German tabloids started to report that Bayern Munich weren’t in contract negotiations with Mario Gotze to have him commit his future to the club. That’s not to say he won’t be offered a new contract but by all accounts Bayern tend to get their contract sorted before Christmas. With less than 18 […]
With Liverpool being linked to both Leicester’s Ben Chilwell and Lorient’s Raphael Gueirrero it’s becoming clear that the club feel they need to strengthen their left-back position. It’s Leicester City’s Chilwell who seems to be the most likely candidate to join with rumours of a move persisting ever since the full-back went on loan to […]
In a football world often described as savage, unrelenting and uncompromising, it’s a pretty good feeling to watch a Jürgen Klopp interview. In such a harsh, embattled landscape where managers all strive to achieve excellence largely through one pre-determined template of how to act in front of the camera and on the touchline, Jürgen Klopp […]
Eyes were widened and surprise stated as Liverpool’s lineup for the Leicester City game was confirmed, with Jurgen Klopp abandoning his usual 4-3-2-1 system since joining the Reds and matching up to the Foxes in a tactical sense with a 4-4-2. Pre-game (and, for some unfortunate watchers, in-game) chatter was about how Klopp was affording […]
There was a misconception when Jurgen Klopp took charge of Liverpool that he would immediately transform the club into Borussia Dortmund mark II. This misconception was propagated mainly by the mainstream media but also by fans and amateur bloggers. The first few weeks of Klopp’s reign however have given us a glimpse of what we […]
Hello again Anfield Index, it’s been a while. Sorry I’ve taken some time since my last article, but apparently being in the final year of your degree is quite time-consuming. Moving on, in this piece I will be attempting to analyse what I consider the most important component of any Klopp system: the midfield. Most will […]
If you’re a Liverpool fan and unfamiliar with Jürgen Klopp and you took the twitter narratives as gospel, then it’s fair to suggest you are under the false illusion that Klopp will win us the league and by the end of the season we’ll be playing in Dortmund yellow circa 2010 because we’re definitely signing […]
The arrival of Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool has kick-started a sense of euphoria surrounding the club and it’s hard not to understand why. The German boss seems to have all the answers to Liverpool’s on-field problems and there’s a sense of hope returning to the forgotten fortress of Anfield. Under Brendan Rodgers, there was often […]
Adam Lallana is something of a head-scratcher when it comes to Liverpool Football Club and even disregarding his £25 Million fee entirely there is still debate over his transfer. A player who neither fits in with the titillatingly direct and pacey football of 2013/14 or the slower, possession based approach that Brendan Rodgers wished to […]
Today Jurgen Klopp officially began his tenure as Liverpool manager and Anfield has quiet understandably lost it’s mind, overcome with joy and expectation. Fans have been craving the appointment of a top-class coach since the departure of Rafael Benitez. Since Benitez’s exit in 2010 it has been a succession of almost managers: Brendan Rodgers, Kenny […]
