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John Barnes claims that Jurgen Klopp would have been fired by Liverpool in his first two seasons in charge “if he were black.”
Klopp took over Anfield in October 2015 and led his team to eighth and fourth place in his first two seasons in the Premier League.
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And Barnes insists that Klopp would have lost his job “under different circumstances.”
“You can put structures in their place, but until you change your perception, nothing will change,” Barnes said. PlayEYE, following the resignation of Greg Clarke as FA president this week after calling black footballers “of color.”
“I use Klopp as an example,” Barnes continued. “How successful were you really in the first two years in terms of being 25 points from the top? But we [Liverpool] he believed he was the right man.
“Under different circumstances, he would have lost his job. If he were black, he would have lost his job in those first two years. “
Barnes also spoke of discrimination against English managers.
“If he [Klopp] He was English, he would have lost his job, ” Barnes said.
“This is where the idea of discrimination is a bit strange because there is a group of people who are discriminated against in English football and at the highest level in the Premier League.
“Now the top six teams will not have a white English coach. Yes, you can say Frank Lampard, as people have pointed out, but that is because he has a special bond with Chelsea and that is the only reason he managed Chelsea, but in other circumstances he would not have gotten that job. ” .
Barnes added that the lack of BAME managers in the English football pyramid is not due to the specifics of the sport itself.
“It has nothing to do with black soccer coaches,” he explains. “This is a larger problem because how many black managers are there at the top of any industry? And why should soccer be any different?
“Until we address it in society and change our perceptions in society, it will exist in all areas of society, and soccer is one.”
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