Liverpool’s hiring of the German,like Arsenal’s recruitment of the Frenchman, is an appointment to refresh the Premier League, or to refuel the mental rocket launchers. Treasure him while you canIt seems increasingly odd,doesn’t it, that the role played by Arsène Wenger in Germany’s World Cup win last year is so widely overlooked? The fact is Wenger barely gets a mention. This despite the fact Jürgen Klinsmann has often described his former manager at Monaco as a key influence when Klinsmann was helping to redefine elite German football, and allowed to theorise and restructure,and finding himself at least once in brainstorming meetings at the German FA brandishing a flip-chart with Wenger-ish words like “speed” and “possession” written on it. Words that may – and this has never been specifically disproved – gain also included things like “good quality”, “little bit of sharpness” and “Pat Rice”. Related: Jürgen Klopp, or the ‘Normal One’,takes over as recent Liverpool manager Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com