Manchester City don’t have the same camaraderie as Liverpool because that’s what Stan Collymore feels…
Mr Motivator
Stan Collymore confesses in his Daily Mirror column that he does not believe that Liverpool can win the Quadruple – he expects Manchester City to win the Premier League and Champions League – but that if they prove him wrong, ‘it will be because, in Jurgen Klopp. they have a manager with the ability to get his players to run through a brick wall for him’.
So if they don’t win any more trophies this season – which is what Collymore expects – is it because Klopp actually doesn’t have the ability to get players to run through brick walls for him? Well no, because he is the only true ‘supreme motivator’ in the Premier League. So to precis: Klopp won’t win the Quadruple but he is the only man who could. Makes sense.
‘When you compare Klopp with Pep Guardiola, Ralf Rangnick – for now, of course – and Thomas Tuchel, you see only one supreme motivator. The others are all good, don’t get me wrong, but I just don’t see them being on the same motivational level as Klopp.’
Rangnick we can agree to ignore but Guardiola has won eight major trophies in the last five years with Manchester City; it sounds like he might be an excellent motivator. As for Tuchel, he took a floundering Chelsea side and made them actual European champions so we think he might also be shit-hot at that motivational stuff too.
But crucially, Collymore has inside knowledge:
‘I’ve watched behind-closed-doors training sessions at Liverpool during Klopp’s time and everyone was working hard but laughing and joking as well.’
Now this may be considered evidence if Collymore had also watched the same sessions from City and Chelsea but no, he is happy just to guess.
‘There was a sense of them all being mates and I don’t necessarily get that feeling with City’s squad. I’m not saying it’s not there, it could well be, but City are low-key and…
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