Good Klopp - Bad Klopp?

Everton reacted and Ronald Koeman was dismissed after another poor performance by a squad of players who many would consider to be the biggest, most talented squad the club have assembled in a long time. However the truth is that the manager had lost the fans and no doubt some of the players the truth of which will come out in time. What is true is that once this happens there is little chance of turning the ship back on course, which the previous manager found out to his cost.
Expectation was high following the early activity in the last transfer window but that has quickly dissipated with Everton winning only 5 of their last 18 Premier League games with the last away win being last winter.

Which takes us across Stanley Park to Liverpool and the growing disenchantment of a manager who has started to speak in riddles, particularly when asked about his team's defending. Like Everton fans there was a lot of optimism before the season began. Two big money attacking signings, a much needed left back and the retention of Coutinho and it looked like they would be in the mix at the top of the table. However some would agree with BBC pundit Garth Crooks when he said recently, “Manager Jurgen [Klopp] must now fulfil his side of the bargain with Liverpool having held on to Coutinho, and ensure he has a defence worthy of playing with the Brazilian. Otherwise, what is the point of the little magician scoring breathtaking goals, if his team can't defend a lead when he does? There's no point keeping him.”

Despite, for quite a long time, the obvious need to improve the defence nothing seems to have been done and following the defeat to Tottenham they have now set an unwanted record. No Liverpool team has conceded more goals in their opening nine league matches since the 1964/65 season. However Klopp has shown complete negligence to addressing this key issue within his side made even worse by his baffling nonchalant approach to it. Liverpool have won just two of their last 10 matches in all competitions and are ninth in the Premier League, 12 points off the top and to make matters worse it is being pointed out that his record is now worse than that under Brendan Rodgers.
Although there is not a lot in it, Jurgen Klopp is now under pressure for the first time in his Liverpool career and claims that the club have improved under the German may be a little wide of the mark.