MKSpur
Christian Ziege
I think I do remember it and it was a good point, but it’s still a trajectory. I’m sure AVB was ahead of Mourinho after one year in management!I did an analysis of Poch's career trajectory a while back, I think on this thread. TL;DR - Poch was on about year 8 or 9 of his professional managerial career when he was sacked. At that stage of his own career, Klopp had won nothing - he had been fairly successful at Mainz, much like Poch was at Southampton and Espanyol, and he was still rebuilding Dortmund - they didn't even make the CL in that time.
By contrast, by Year 9 of his own career, Poch was performing absolute miracles with us with no budget, no backing. He transformed us in a way that Klopp only managed much later in his own career.
I think Poch's career trajectory will surpass Klopp's. We'll see, but that's my belief - he's too good not to.
I’m not trying to devalue anything Poch as achieved thus far btw, nor making a case for not giving him cash to spend, but for me there is an open question about whether he does have a weakness on the recruitment side - which means his peak may come when aligned with a top sporting director and a big pot of cash.
I know the media love in with Liverpool is sickening right now but Klopp deserves all the plaudits he gets - he didn’t take over the biggest / richest team in either league that he’s won and by taking a few years to do so it’s clear that it was he built the team...and with Jordan Henderson as captain