Monday, August 8, 2016

Charismatic Klopp starting to make his mark at Liverpool (The Associated Press)

Liverpool's coach Juergen Klopp attends the soccer test match between FSV Mainz 05 and FC Liverpool in Mainz, Germany,Sunday Aug. 7, 2016. (Ronald Wittek/dpa via AP)

Liverpool's 4-0 win over Barcelona at Wembley Stadium on Saturday may force some pundits to revisit their predictions for Juergen Klopp's side this season. Klopp is heading into his first full season at Anfield after an inconsistent but encouraging seven months last campaign, when he took over from the fired Brendan Rodgers and took Liverpool to the finals of the League Cup and Europa League, losing both. There are more of Klopp's fingerprints over the 2016-17 squad, and the thrashing of Barcelona - Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez both started in that game - is perhaps a sign that the methods of the charismatic, bespectacled German are starting to make a difference.


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