Would Klopp or Pep Have Done A Better Job At Brentford?
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There are two answers here. One short and one being an actual answer. The short one is ‘no’, simply because this IS Thomas Franks team of which he was part of building for the past several years and neither Klopp nor Pep know it anywhere near as well as Thomas. Also, with all due respect, we aren’t Peps or Klopps ‘kinda team’ in terms of how they want to play. (That being said if we were in some sort of multiverse science fiction scenario and actually decided to boot Thomas Frank after he got us to the Prem and replace him with ‘cant wait to be here’ Klopp or Pep than I bet everything I own that Zegarman would have done miles better than the Catalonian, but I will explain that during the ‘actual answer’ bit).
So, now for the ‘actual answer’ – if we were seriously (but how on earth can anything like this be spoken about in such matter?) facing a scenario with either of said Managers at the helm we would have to probably arrive at the point where Thomas Frank replaced Dean Smith. (Personally – regardless of the fact I completely agree with Dave aka Jim on the shades of green – I believe Dean Smith goes to Villa 100 times out of 100 because he is a boyhood fan and this was an absolute dream job that quite possibly would have never happened again should he turn it down back then. And I’m sure he does not regret going. It is a completely different scenario to the one in which Uwe ditched us for Wigan). Pep would have been eaten up by the Championship. I don’t rate the guy anywhere near what most people seem to (in all fairness I hardly rate him at all). THAT Barcelona team would manage ITSELF to the titles and he merely arrived at Bayern midway through a period of utter dominance in which they were destroying everyone domestically both before and after Pep. And, surprise surprise, it WASNT PEP who won Champions League with Bayern either. The guy is stubborn and blindfolded and can only work and play a certain system. That’s why he keeps tripping over in cups, especially European. Because he has to face different styles which, time and time again, successfully counter his teams when it really matters. Prem is ‘known territory’ to him by now and with the players he has ANYONE would be challenging. Guy buys people for £100M not because he needs them but because he CAN. He wouldn’t have a scoobybloodydoo what to do with Toney. He HATES players like that. He destroyed what was left of David Villa back at Barcelona, Zlatan wanted to beat him up and he was doing everything he could NOT to play Lewandowski at Bayern until it proved beyond doubt that someone will petrolbomb his car if he continues to try. Halaand WOULD BE 40 goals a season, domestically, Terminator at Liverpool. He will not score this much (albeit he will score a lot) at City because Pep will play Phil Foden instead in circa 15 games next year. Klopp on the other hand has a history of taking teams against a domestic hegemon (both Dortmund and Liverpool) after actually building them up and improving over period of time. He only ever spends idiotic amounts of money if he REALLY needs a certain player and he’s pretty much spot on every time when he does. He also buys people who turn out to be brilliant for relatively ‘modest’ amounts (Mo, Luiz Dias) quite consistently. He improves and catapults players into superstars (Lewy, Mo, Sadio, Virgil and now likely Dias) time and time again. He has been successful BOTH domestically and in Europe and has very different players in his teams that can fit in different scenarios when it’s required but can also play like for like anytime. Liverpool under Fenway is somewhat similar to Brenford in the sense that they don’t do knee jerk and did allow Klopp to get on with it for few years before current Liverpool was formed. Remember the times when they had to score 3 goals to win a game because they would always concede 2? I do. It wasn’t that long ago.
So, summing it up – Klopp would mesh, mix, match and do just fine with Brentford while Pep would have not. Thomas Frank is brilliant, one of the best coaches/managers currently in England and with an upside, much like everything at Brentford. But let’s not forget he has been part of this for a while and it is VERY important. This incoming season will be the real test. If he passes it – sky is the limit.