Thanks for the reply. It was supposed to stir debate to be honest. I wasn't saying I was on board with it, just toying with the notion.
But I think one of the biggest attributes a manager can have these days is charisma and a massive personality. It's not like the old days where the manager is the coach, picks the team, buys the players etc. . . They have a massive team dedicated to helping out with that.
The manger sets the tone. Is the leader and sets the example the players will follow. Gets his boys running through brick walls. Defends them to the hilt when the chips are down. Simeone is not unlike Klopp in this respect. You get the impression his players and fans love the bones of him and would die to win a football game for him. He seems to be very good at uniting the club, players and fans.
Finding a force of nature to follow Klopp is going to be very difficult.
A manager as the figurehead of the club also very much has authority of the sort of football is played, and will have coaches around him who work in concert with that. Very sure the manager here has final say on who actually plays too
So yes, for sure, work in delegated, but to say that is one of the biggest attributes is charisma and personality is a little wide of the mark. Definately at a club like Liverpool though, the personality is important though, I agree on that!
But as a manager is the figurehead and as the manager’s philosophy is important to us, that is one of the many reasons I honestly can’t imagine how any Liverpool fan would then look at Simeone and think ‘yep, would love him here’.
He’s the antithesis of a Liverpool manager in my mind.
I know Klopp is a rare breed these days in that he wants to play the game fairly and having his teams topping fair play tables might be funny to some, but itis something important to him, and it is one of the things that makes him and this team special. To be able to compete at the very top without the resources of some other teams and to actually do it the right way, is probably what makes me most proud of this team.
To go from that to Simeone, would be impossible to stomach. And yes of course Atletico fans love him, I get that, but his act has gone on long enough for those on the outside to be able to judge how suited he would be to their own club, and for this club, not at all is my verdict.