"Jürgen Klopp's going to have to really work hard to get them up to where they normally are" 🇩🇪 @JimmyConrad, @Bonetti and @J_Dyer_Official preview the task awaiting the former Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool manager if he takes the Germany job.
"Jimmy, Germany was one of the bigger disappointments of this year's World Cup, but do you see them having the talent to challenge for the next Euros if Klopp does take charge? That's a great question, Claudia, and I think this is a great hire. Germany can get Jurgen Klopp back in the manager position. It's going to be great. I think it's good for him because you're not in that day-to-day intensity of the club level, which I think wore him down at Liverpool, and now he gets back in. The rhythm's a little bit different. Ricio Pochettino's talked about this from a U.S. perspective, where he actually misses the day-to-day. But I think that Klopp maybe can come into this clean and fresh, he's recharged now. I do think that they lack, they had a little defensive fragility, right, when I think about Germany. They always were good to maybe give up a good chance that could lead to a goal. You also, chance creation, I thought they were not good consistently creating chances even though they have Lucialla and Wirtz and Kai Havertz amongst others. If he can solve those two things, then yeah, I think they can be a threat. Is their talent pool matching that ambition? I'm not so sure yet. Attacking, yes. Defensively, when you have Kimmich having to play right back, when he's better essentially midfield, they just have areas that I think need to get a little bit better. But if Klopp comes in, and I think that burst of energy that would come, I wouldn't put it past them to have a good run in the Euros. I'd say what it might inspire, I've always wondered whether or not we'd see Pep Guardiola versus Jürgen Klopp again, and I think maybe at international level, it might inspire maybe Pep. Because you know, you're always inspired by what your rivals have done, and it's clearly that they not burned each other out because they pushed each other to the absolute limit. Can you imagine seeing that in a World Cup final? That'd be amazing. Whatever level you could imagine. Where would Pep be? He's at the U.S. I love that. I'm dreaming, but I'm manifesting it. You're right. This Germany side, though, is that step down from previous ones where they'd go into tournaments as one of the favorites. And you're right, Schlatterback, Borussia Dortmund up and down. Todd, do they have the same gravitas as some of the center back partnership, the striker Undav? Like, yeah, he came in as a superstar, but I feel like they still have a few areas where they're not as solid as they used to be. So Jurgen Klopp is going to have to really work hard to get them up to where they normally are, Hannah."
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"Jürgen Klopp's going to have to really work hard to get them up to where they normally are" 🇩🇪 @JimmyConrad, @Bonetti and @J_Dyer_Official preview the task awaiting the former Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool manager if he takes the Germany job.