If you can’t beat them, buy them.
Same procedure as every year. That’s just how it is, Bayern.
It just works, so why change anything. Especially since this should also increase the chances of winning Wirtz.
Understandable from Alonso’s point of view. Real are not free at first and in Liverpool you can only lose if you follow the legend Klopp. Especially since the squad is not designed for a 3-4-3. If you approach this consistently, deserving players would have to be sorted out, which shouldn’t make it any easier for him to get there.
Bayern are rebuilding anyway, have money and are theoretically in a position to compete for any title. He can almost only do better.
It’s definitely easier to be successful at Bayern now, after this year of chaos and the last few years that weren’t quite as successful. He would certainly have more pressure with the Liverpool players who are a little higher up. Especially with Klopp as his predecessor.
Bayern will need a big change. But they won’t be able to bring in as many players as they need in one transfer window. This will then be a process over a longer period of time. I hope the new coach is given the time. And I don’t necessarily see whether there is actually the money for that. Or, there would certainly be more money at Liverpool. Bayern’s squad is also not designed for a 3-4-3. Some players have to be replaced.
I’m curious whether Alonso will take the interim step of Bayern or move directly to a top 3 club.
Where does the belief that Liverpool would be harder come from because Klopp would have to be inherited there? Absolutely no one in Liverpool will expect a second Klopp, where would a coach with such charisma suddenly come from?
In contrast to Bayern, however, Liverpool is a club that allows its coach a certain amount of training time (Klopp only finished eighth in his first season and then only fourth in season 2) and does not throw him out immediately, even after a minor sporting crisis the general chemistry is right. A Klopp would never have survived a season like 2020/21 or 2022/23 at Bayern.
We’ll see how it goes, if Alonso had made himself known publicly, it would have been done long ago through all the media on Bayern’s part just to stir up unrest again. I still think Alonso, if he should leave at all, he will go to Liverpool.
I once heard of a club where, for ten years, every new coach they hire has been expecting a second Klopp.
Thank you, I couldn’t have said it better.
Apart from his charisma, Klopp is also probably the best coach of the last decade in Europe when you compare financial expenditure and sporting return. For me, Klopp’s “idolatry” is too often associated with him as a “guy”.
The salary budget has been well away from the elite for years, in England I think they are in 4th or 5th place. The transfer expenditure is well outside the top 6. Nevertheless, Liverpool was for a long time the only team that could keep up with City and also attack the CL could.
You simply won’t find this combination of sporting success, maximum financial efficiency, youth development, general player development and charisma twice.
Guardiola is the only coach who currently has the same standing as Klopp. The shoes are too big for anyone else. Simply because you can’t do better with the conditions in Liverpool.