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Why don't you tackle the ball not the man.
I did, and won the ball
I'm not sure where to begin with this new straw man argument of yours newrosswaterford. Different manager, different owner, different circumstances, different players, different time. So to start with newrosswaterford, I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. But ok, just to make sure the ball has been tackled. It was Rafa. Since he left Liverpool he has managed Inter after they'd just won the treble, Chelsea where he was told he was interim manager before he even signed a contract, Real Madrid where he was basically told you're here until we get someone we prefer and now Newcastle with Mike Ashley. Does he, much as Liverpool supporters love him, strike you as someone who always makes good, easy judgements calls with management? Let me answer that for you. No. Even before Liverpool he has problems with owners at Valencia. Now not to even suggest any problems have been of his doing, because I don't think they have, but he's hardly one to turn down a job or a contract because of bad/interfering owners.
He was the first manager to manage under H&G. He found out what they were like first hand, which is why when he was replaced we looked at the calibre of manager we did. Roy Hodgson.
Under FSG we have had one of our greatest players and greatest managers, who hasn't had a bad word to say about the owners. He's also never once claimed he wasn't backed or anything even remotely close. Furthermore he's returned to the club in an ambassadorial role under the same owners, which would be an odd thing to do if he knew first hand what dreadful, toxic owners they were. We've also hired one of the best young coaches at the time who again has never said he wasn't backed with transfers, the criticism he made after he left was around the transfer committee and the way transfers were made (which we can all admit was a clusterfuck) which again so far appears to have been rectified.
So clearly Klopp is happy here and happy under the owners. He's said as much, he's experienced a season before signing a new deal. He's never said anything apart from he has been backed if he wants to make signings. Same as the King in the quotes above. So I'd imagine that's the reason he signed a new contract.
That okay newrosswaterford?