10 Years Ago

[jozza800]

Just to try and lift a bit of the doom and gloom, I thought it would be nice to remember the day Jurgen Klopp walked through the door!

10 Years! It has flown by.

The one thing that has stuck with me is when people say 'it takes time for a manager to implement his ideas/style'. We saw in the very first game vs Spurs what it was all about. It was absolutely night and day from what we'd been served up months earlier.

And the rest as they say is history...

[Steveo]

Yep.. the man who changed the entire fabric of the club from top to bottom.

‘Doubters to believers’ has since taken on iconic connotations of its own but we hadn’t truly recognised ourselves as doubters in the first place, we had just become comfortable enough with accepting mediocrity.


https://www.thisisanfield.com/2025/10/we-didnt-recognise-ourselves-as-doubters-but-jurgen-klopp-changed-our-ways/

[jozza800]

Think it was between him and Ancelotti after Rodgers. I remember thinking at the time we were in a no lose situation, either would be great appointments.

Thinking about it now, I don't think we'd be where we are now if it had been Ancelotti.

As good a manager as Don Carlo is, I don't he would have been the all encompasing leader taht we needed. We needed 'root and branch' surgery.

[Kev0909]

Think it was between him and Ancelotti after Rodgers. I remember thinking at the time we were in a no lose situation, either would be great appointments.

Thinking about it now, I don't think we'd be where we are now if it had been Ancelotti.

As good a manager as Don Carlo is, I don't he would have been the all encompasing leader taht we needed. We needed 'root and branch' surgery.

Honestly, what's happened at utd was more likely if we had Carlo

Managers are best at different things... not saying Ancelotti is bad but in the situation we was in, I don't think it would've worked out very well.

[Steveo]

Think it was between him and Ancelotti after Rodgers. I remember thinking at the time we were in a no lose situation, either would be great appointments.

Thinking about it now, I don't think we'd be where we are now if it had been Ancelotti.

As good a manager as Don Carlo is, I don't he would have been the all encompasing leader taht we needed. We needed 'root and branch' surgery.

The fella was brilliant at buying ready made world class players. Be funny to see that work in 2015 and that bang average squad. Ahem... John.. I am going to need to spend £250,000,000 NET..!!!

No - you're right. It was Klopp or almost certainly another 10 years of trying to get there. Let's hope we can build on the foundations he laid. Klopp - a once in a lifetime manager. Ferguson met him once and instantly new United were in big trouble.

[Daffydd]

I remember at the time I didn't know what all the fuss was about, thought he was overhyped, happy to be proved wrong!

[Red October]

One of our greatest ever signings. Sad that he didn't get a few more titles which he deserved.

[Steveo]

I remember at the time I didn't know what all the fuss was about, thought he was overhyped, happy to be proved wrong!

To be fair there were plenty on here calling for him a good few years before we got him..The clamour got really intense when he took his sabbatical. The summer before he arrived someone on here was posting about hearing the sound of KlippetyKlopp...?


He was the obvious choice and thankfully - and in no small part due to his wife Ulla - he gave United a pass and came here.

[Daffydd]

To be fair there were plenty on here calling for him a good few years before we got him..The clamour got really intense when he took his sabbatical. The summer before he arrived someone on here was posting about hearing the sound of KlippetyKlopp...?


He was the obvious choice and thankfully - and in no small part due to his wife Ulla - he gave United a pass and came here.

Yeah I remember the excitement, I was just averse to the hype, not really knowing much about him except for the headlines. Thankfully he lived up to it.

[ianlfc]

An amazing manager then handed the reigns over to Arne to get us the league title.
Jurgen had bumps in the road and we all got behind him, Arne deserves the same and Jurgen would agree.
The memories Jurgen has given me following his team will live with me forever, it was a hell of a ride.

[teesred]

There'll never be a better spell as a Liverpool fan in our lifetime. They were golden years, even those years of just missing out were still unreal.
I genuinely miss him as our manager. It sounds cliche but it was just different with him, he's the manager every fan would have loved to have.

[miller0863]

I was ecstatic when he rocked up at Anfield, little did I know, I should have been much much happier than that.

He is one of the fer who transcends just being a football manager, he is/was a giant of a man who lifted us to heights way way beyond what could have been expected or anticipated.

What a man.

I met Shankly (once and it was only briefly) so I don’t say it lightly that without doubt he was our modern day Shankly, he was every bit as important to the club.

[teesred]

Wow, where did you meet Shankly?

[Creator Supremes]

Trying to remember how I felt about Klopp's appointment. From memory I highly rated him as a boss. Yet thought as a club we'd somehow still mess up with him eventually. That was what the cynicism of waiting 25 years for a league title did. The football landscape felt vastly different to now. Even pre Guardiola, it felt like City with their money would be battling it out with Chelsea and their own vast backing.
We didn't know how Utd would do if they'd managed to get the right boss in. Arsenal still had Wenger, even if his bosses seemed more preoccupied with takeovers and finishing top 4 than challenging.
Yes we were still a massive club but getting Jurgen was still one hell of a coup
He was just a few months into his planned year off from management. If our owners had waited until summer 2016 to try and employ him, the competition would've been huge to get him as boss.
He was the right fit for our club at that time but a few people should be very proud they got him to sign on the dotted line. That's everyone including those in the boardroom, the day to day staff of the club and of course the city and the support.

What a roller coaster of a ride it was.

[miller0863]

Wow, where did you meet Shankly?

Matchday outside the ground, signing autographs and chatting to youngsters (I was 7)