The former Liverpool man discusses how Jurgen Klopp transformed Liverpool during his tenure.
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00:00 He goes into that table of greats, that pool of greats.
00:03 There's some great managers for Liverpool over the years,
00:07 but he goes into arguably the top three, top four of Liverpool's managers.
00:12 People wondered how quickly he could have an effect on the team and straight away we saw that
00:21 heavy metal football, the way he wanted to press, and it was so different to what people had seen
00:27 within the Premier League. He connected the team, the club, the ownership. I think he managed to be
00:33 that guy, the glue of the club, and who held things together to win a Premier League title,
00:39 the first Premier League title, but a league title after 30 years was quite remarkable.
00:44 I think more so Salah than anyone, just because of the age, the Saudi interest,
00:53 what does he now do, who comes into the football club as manager, what do they see this position
00:59 as, do they think it's an opportunity to cash in and maybe rebuild a little bit more and add
01:05 more quality to the quality that's already there. I think the big thing for the players is that
01:09 they'll all be thankful to Jürgen because to go to Liverpool and to win trophies is
01:15 something that's not very easy to do.
01:20 I think the other thing it'll do is it'll create incredible atmospheres which the players will
01:25 absolutely thrive off and if you can get the atmosphere at Anfield cooking, it's a difficult
01:31 place for any team to go, no matter who you are. However, there is a job to be done, it's not a
01:36 sort of swan song and just like a happy-go-lucky atmosphere, you're going for a Premier League
01:45 title. We look at Sir Alex Ferguson, we look at Arsene Wenger and we look directly at the
01:52 replacements for them and go, well they didn't work, it's took years and people will argue
01:57 Manchester United still haven't recovered from that. The names on the list will be Xabi Alonso
02:01 because of his time at Bayer Leverkusen in the early stages, top of the Bundesliga,
02:06 still unbeaten as we talk now within the German League and the Bundesliga and the Europa League.
02:12 So you look at that and you say, phenomenal, absolutely incredible. Then you look at, I look
02:18 at De Zerby, I think he's a manager who understands, he works within the constraints of what Brighton do
02:24 and they have a process of how they want to do things.
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