Tottenham supervisor Ange Postecoglou has stated that Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp revolutionised English soccer by taking the Premier League’s depth to a different degree.
The brand new Spurs boss prepares to host Klopp’s Liverpool staff on Saturday, aiming to increase a promising unbeaten run which has seen them take 14 factors from their opening six league video games.
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Klopp is in the course of his personal rebuild as he seeks to recapture the heights of his seven-year spell at Anfield, throughout which Liverpool received the Champions League — beating Spurs within the 2019 closing — and the Premier League in 2020.
Talking in a information convention on Friday, Postecoglou stated: “Jurgen is an excellent supervisor, he is one the managers I feel it is truthful to say who has made an impression on the competitors, not simply his membership. As a result of when he got here in, with the best way Liverpool went about issues, he challenged fairly a number of of the conventions in regards to the Premier League and launched a brand new type of play that others have adopted. It is an excellent check for the place we’re in the intervening time when it comes to our growth.
“From when Jurgen got here to the league and the best way they arrange, simply the tempo and depth with which they performed. Each offensively and defensively, it was at one other degree.
“The Premier League has at all times been a reasonably excessive tempo league however I assumed they took it to a different degree. At instances, it regarded virtually chaotic however you may see there was a plan behind it. It is extremely arduous to deal with.”
Postecoglou, born in Greece however raised in Australia, performed down his boyhood assist for Liverpool, including: “It was the ’70s, so that you went considered one of two methods: it appeared they solely used to indicate Liverpool or Man U [on television in Australia] on the time so a few my finest mates went Man U, so I went the opposite method so we might preserve it attention-grabbing.
“Like all child, I had the posters up on my wall, so Liverpool was my staff. However you develop up, issues change. I used to like Completely satisfied Days again then too, however I haven’t got footage of The Fonz on my wall immediately both. So it is simply the best way issues are.”
Spurs are hopeful of getting James Maddison and Son Heung-Min out there after the pair skilled regardless of choosing up knocks in final Sunday’s 2-2 draw at Arsenal. Winger Brennan Johnson will miss out resulting from a hamstring downside.