article_snippet.sent: Like Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho,
article_snippet.sent: the fans came to represent everything the Premier League isn’t.
article_snippet.sent: But it was Klopp who was the public face of a club, the embodiment of all that.
article_snippet.sent: And whenever them have lost key players – Nuri Sahin, Shinji Kagawa, Gotze, Lewandowski –
article_snippet.sent: But it was hard to avoid the conclusion that the pressure of trying to keep up with Bayern as they cherry picked his best players had finally proved too much.
article_snippet.sent: This wasn’t a calculated decision, This wasn’t planned This’s not tactical,’ said Klopp.
article_snippet.sent: There is another side to Klopp, of course.
article_snippet.sent: It came at a time when Arsene Wenger was under pressure, an older man who seemed to be struggling to keep up with the new wave; Klopp knew how to make the point.
article_snippet.sent: ‘What I love is fighting football,’ Klopp once said, explaining that in Germany they even call this
article_snippet.sent: It is Klopp’s mantra too.