Liverpool Banter

20 May 2024 10:41:37
Question for Ed033 (probably) - is there a time limit or 'number of posts returned' limit on search results? I tried searching on 'Dijk' to find posts from before VVD joined us and the search results stopped at 2020.

{Ed033's Note - Using VVD as the search term, results in posts as far back as 07 Aug 2017.

The search function is very limited on number of results and only searches Eds Notes.

20 May 2024 10:09:46
You know i think virgs embrace summed it up for everyone especially the fan base. The tears into the hug. Virg grew up without a father and i feel like for 20 odd years there was such a disconnection between the fans and the manager / owners. We were never close to really winning a PL but when klopp came, we just knew we had someone very special who was going to deliver.
I heard Carra compare him with the great Liverpool managers including benetiz and that's when i thought what an insult. Klopp is our generations shankly. He's way above benetiz. There should be a statue for klopp.

20 May 2024 11:30:48
Carra went through a list of great managers that Klopp was up there with. You can't just pick one out that you aren't happy with.

Rafa won the Champions League with one of the greatest ever second half comebacks. If you look at the squad he had you can see how immense this achievement was. Look how hard Pep found it to win with his billions of pounds at City.

Klopp is a legend and yes there should be something at the ground to immortalise hm but that doesn't mean you should belittle the achievements of those who came before him.

20 May 2024 11:38:58
Benitez wasnt as warm a character as Klopp but he definitely understood the club and the city.
Ultimately his time with us promised more than it delivered but there was a lot going on around the club and the emergence of Chelsea and strength of United made his task a difficult one.
There were however some great nights, a really good team that came together in 2008/ 09 and pretty much every European giant was humbled at one point or another.
Not quite Klopp levels but I have a lot of respect for Benitez and look back fondly on those years.

20 May 2024 11:49:24
I’d agree with that Mizer. Although we should forever be thankful to Rafa for Istanbul I didn’t particularly like him as a manager and was glad when he left.

Klopp could not be any further away from that. A true once in a lifetime manager that we were so very fortunate to have.

20 May 2024 07:39:02
{Ed's Note - Dillinger has posted a new article entitled, EFL SIGNINGS FOR LEEDS UNITED

19 May 2024 21:37:50
Edd001 how are you feeling?

{Ed001's Note - drained, all those tears take it out of you! I am just looking forward to the next chapter with excitement, though I will always miss Jurgen. It was the right time and he dealt with it all so well, his speeches touched the right chord and he even got us all singing the next man's name. The best thing about it is that there was no artifice, this wasn't like 'Arry Redknapp playing to the crowd with his cock-er-nee barra boy spiel, pretending to be a good guy. This was genuine, from the heart and just what we all needed to hear. He may not have won as much as he maybe should have, it might have fallen apart a bit in the run in, but I don't care, I wouldn't have swopped the time with Jurgen Norbert Klopp for anything or anyone else.}

20 May 2024 03:54:03
Well said Ed001. The genuineness just comes through in his speeches and we could all feel it. It was a good, positive farewell all around.

{Ed001's Note - you can see why his players are so inspired by him. Players that played for him always talk about him in glowing terms and it is no wonder. I think we would all have run through brick walls for him yesterday.}

20 May 2024 06:29:54
John Keith said that in 1971 when Mr Shankly spoke to the crowd in front of St George’s Hall, if he’d asked to run through the tunnel and sack Birkenhead they’d have done it.

Yesterday, Jurgen could have done the same - although i’m glad he didn’t.

Great speech from a great man. We will miss him.

20 May 2024 07:21:37
The thing I loved more than anything else was he actively went out of his way to make it just as much about everybody else as well as him.

In a football world with egos that match the size of their salaries, that’s such a beautiful thing and a real measure of the man.

Also - if you haven’t seen it then have a look at pep guardiolas press conference last night where he is getting emotional talking about klopp and what he has driven him to be.

20 May 2024 06:05:31
Ed1, are you planning on writing something to sum up Klopp time at Liverpool in the future? Still can't believe that he lead the whole Anfield into singing the next man's name. Just show what a great man he is. The final speech he gives yesterday is like his final pep talk for all Liverpool supporters all around the world. He doesn't want his name to be said among other club's great Shankly, Paisley and Kenny. But there is not a single doubt that he belong among the club's greatest.

{Ed001's Note - yes mate, I am intending to do something.}

20 May 2024 10:00:26
I guess it will be something that is hard for you to do Ed1. Given how much Klopp has brought back a lot of joy for us Liv fans, I imagine few tears will come out when you're writing that. What a blessing it is to have him as one of our manager.

{Ed001's Note - very hard mate. I am dreading it. I was back in bits this morning watching the footage.}

20 May 2024 10:02:31
Edd001 ino was tough because he was special and we all know to get a klopp is once in a generation. Not the success but the man and how he emotionally connected soo well to the club and it's fans. His personality is unmatched. I think we've seen the best from klopp but look at virg, cried when embracing him. He's been like a father figure for the club. I think arne has a very tough job to be honest and i hope he doesn't underestimate it.

{Ed001's Note - just look at all the ex-players too. Lovren in particular posted a very touching tribute.}

20 May 2024 10:11:38
I fell you, Ed01. I was not as drained as you were even tho, the onion cutters did a decent job on me a bit, lol. Everything looked genuine. No phoney, mealy moutth company mine schtick. Just words from the heart of a man who really cared about his players, the club, the city and the fan base. Royalty, man.

Did you see Slot's send-off at Feyenoord? It was not as big and colorful as Klopp's BUT it was a very good one. They sang him and his kids off with YNWA (rendition was very diff. ), as well. Im excited about what he can do and he seems to be ready to make that jump.

Klopp is now a fan now and the best way for him to be a true fan was to sing the new Arne Slot song to welcome his successor. Time to support Big Arne, the way we supported and believed in Klopp. The man asked us to do so as a parting wish. Who are we not to oblige? YNWA, Jurgen and Queen Ulla! You will be sorely missed but NEVER forgotten.

{Ed001's Note - I am looking forward to Slot now, the send off he got was nice to see.}

20 May 2024 10:18:35
Getting the crowd to sing Slots name was incredible I thought. To the last, Klopp was thinking about making sure the club was in the best position to move forward. I was born in 1991 and only really started supporting when I was around 15, obviously missed out on the glory days of the past but man, I am lucky to have got to see the Klopp era live.

20 May 2024 10:56:05
Have to say Klopp singing an Arne Slot song was not on the bingo card.

Thought the arrangement of the celebration was a bit strange.

But it's a mark of the man. He wanted it to be about his colleagues and the next man rather than just him.

It's a shame the stadium cleared out before the lap of honour. Not sure if that was intended.

Regardless, a good send off and as he said, he's now one of us.