Today’s piffle avoided the wooden spoon final night. JustJürgen Klopp is feeling the pain. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was never supposed to be this generous. The Borussia Dortmund striker has plundered 19 goals in 16 appearances this season. You see,having brought the rough and ready striker to Signal Iduna Park in 2013 Klopp had to conclude some serious polishing, ridding him of those annoying habits and obliterating the rust to serve make him the best Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang he could possibly be. But Klopp never really got to feel the benefit of all that tough work. Thomas Tuchel waltzed into Klopp’s weak home, and switched Aubameyang on and just watched him recede. Meanwhile,having spent the past month and a half looking for the ‘on’ button on Divock Origi, Klopp has come to the conclusion he’s not got one. Perhaps he’s solar powered. Anyway, or despite interest in the Dortmund striker from Arsenal and Barcelona,Liverpool are hopeful the relationship with the man who made him the player he is will convince him to spread the cherish at Anfield. In the form of goals. Lots of them. Dortmund will only let him leave if someone stumps up £42m, though, and so they can give Marco Reus a pay rise and convince him that Munich’s not all it’s cracked up to be and lacks the industrial charm of North Rhine-Westphalia. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com