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You only know that Premier League managers are rushing back to training ready to put into practice everything they’ve learned and discussed during quarantine.
Maybe not Jurgen Klopp, who seems to have spent the most if the running through Netflix, watching and rewatching the Taken trilogy (Did anyone know that Taken was referred to as a “trilogy”? Has anyone ever seen the second or 3rd Taken? Should we control those people?), Learning to tie a tie, how to cook an egg, you know, normal.
I’m sure Klopp squeezed a little work out of his day. They will have spent hours on zoom calls with Pep Lijnders and Pete Krawietz, thinking and strategizing for all elements of the team: the now, the medium term and the future.
You have to think that everything has been discussed. Formal adjustments. New training programs. How are they going to speed things up now. How they will navigate in a confusing closed season. Perhaps looking at the targets. Assess your own weaknesses.
This has been a time for plotting and planning. Think, be thoughtful. He is rarely given that opportunity at the moment, and certainly not with a dominant advantage at the top of the table. Rather than returning with the go-go intensity it would take to break the line in a title race, Klopp can sit back and plan, he can plan some of the things he has discovered or come up with.
The 75-minute limit that the Premier League is asking clubs to apply at the start of the comeback will force some kind of innovation. Coaching teams will have to work more efficiently, they will have to find new methods. It could lead to some funky things. Could not be interesting to monitor.
(By the way, anyone Do you think José Mourinho will stick to the 75 minute limit? The guy was strutting around a park with Tanguy Ndombele, dressed in Obvious-Spurs-purple at the beginning of closing.)
Premier League coaches have been in an unusual period. They have had plenty of time to sit and think, to play with tactical configurations, to analyze games, to read, about soccer philosophy, life or leadership. Make a complete diagnosis of where your team and club are located, without the safety of your work being on the line or having to rush to train.
Who do you think made the most of downtime?
You better believe that Pep has been in the trap of champions, sages, and svengalis of all the works of life trying to be from obscure spheres of life. It will return with a new back three-piece system or some pinched style from a Hungarian side in the mid-1940s. You have probably spent all this time erecting a large-scale Subbuteo ensemble, packed with artisan models, pushing them to new places. Creating new angles. Trying to discover the secrets of the world of soccer. I told you, in a minute!
We’ve seen Frankie’s lamps all over television. You know, just being one of the boys. Sean Dyche has probably brewed a delicious homemade beer. Is there any chance that Carlo Ancelotti has forgotten that he is the manager of Everton? Like a two percent chance? How many times do you think Hodgson has contacted the Crystal Palace IT team because his players are not responding? It’s in the hundreds, right?
Klopp has clearly been keeping busy. There are not many staff questions for him to answer in the final stretch; Perhaps your time has been better spent searching for possible transfer goals. But perhaps we will see some experimentation in the future, or small adjustments in his method of doing things.
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