![]() ![]() The question is, how similar are the failings of Klopp’s Dortmund to the cracks appearing in this Liverpool team? But, at Dortmund, the cycle ended, and things fell apart. His heights reached with Liverpool have reached well beyond that Dortmund team – and, despite having significantly more resources, those resources pale in comparison to the state-run competition much in the way that Dortmund’s paled in comparison to the Bundesliga juggernaut they conquered. So Klopp, validated in his approach and with a few analytical revolutionaries along to properly ensure his side were on the right track, took the Liverpool job, and turned them into, at one point, the world’s best football team. ![]() Dortmund, to quote the New York Times piece, lost that game “ because of two fluky errors.” He was, with the hope of convincing Jurgen Klopp of its merits, using data to analyse Dortmund’s 2-0 loss to Mainz in Klopp’s final season, one of those results that truly stuck in Klopp’s craw as his side fell to eighteenth place in the table – that’s stone, dead, bottom in the Bundesliga – only fifteen months after being in the Champions League final.Īccording to the New York Times, Klopp is said to have marvelled at Graham’s description of the game: that Dortmund were killing Mainz, that it was incredulous and astounding for Dortmund to lose it 2-0. When Liverpool were in the process of hiring their 21st-century idol the man who, like so few others in the club’s history, could guide them to a raucous, unrelenting state of football revelry, there was a remark made by Ian Graham, Liverpool’s contemporary Director of Research. “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes” – Mark Twain. ![]()
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