KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Joey Barton: Liverpool boss ‘needs his head examining’

Joey Barton has delivered a damning verdict on Jurgen Klopp’s managerial skills, insisting he has no ‘Plan B’ and will not win any silverware with the Reds unless he changes his ways.

The Merseyside club continue to struggle defensively despite splashing out £75m on centre-back Virgil van Dijk and were beaten 3-2 at home by West Brom in the FA Cup on Saturday.

Barton has been a regular critic of Klopp, once branding him a ‘giant German cheerleader’, and he told the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast on Monday that he continues to be unimpressed by his leadership of Liverpool.

“He needs his head examining,” said the former Premier League ace. “He has got no Plan B. He is so stubborn that if Plan A doesn’t work, he just continues with Plan A.

“For me, Van Dijk is a good player but if you had seen in him that defence on Saturday, he looked a shambles. You are guilty by association. You could put anyone in that back line [and they would struggle].

“Positionally they are in the wrong spot, attitude-wise they are in the wrong spot.

“Ten opposition shots on target and nine goals… this is an alleged elite level manager and elite level coach.

“When Liverpool go forward and get it right, they can be mesmerising at times. But they will not win anything while they are defending the way they are are.

“There were shambolic [against West Brom]. The loss of Coutinho and the defensive vulnerabilities are making teams think ‘this Liverpool side is a myth’.”

Hasn't he got some serious slappin' and betting to be getting on with, rather than going on the wireless spouting his unwanted opinions?
He's an arse wipe

He's not wrong though. When it comes to defence Klopp hasn't been very effective, I hope he sorts it out

EVERYTHING about that weasel is wrong.
His opinions are as unwelcome as a certain posters are in here.

Despite him being a bit of a cvnt, he ain't really wrong is he?

Yeah, we're all in an agreement that Joey is a cvnt, but what part of what he said is wrong?

Ha ha ha Red4life the expert in getting the benefit of the doubt. Klopp will be ok we've just had two [oops] results . Certainly wouldn't give a [oops] what scum like Barton thinks of our manager.

Yes yes we all all know what's wrong here well done cuntface Barton for pointing it out. He's a talentless , vile, vermin infested no mark waste of oxygen whose opinion matters not a jot to me, certainly am not going to jump on his band wagon of vitriol. Klopp has fukked up big time this weekend but let's see what he does to remedy this as opposed to sitting there like a whopper and calling him a "Gerry" etc...

He won't so anything to remedy it. It'll be the same old team out there tomorrow with the same old style of play and no doubt the same old result.

We're letting Sturridge go too it seems. Not a great loss in the grand scheme of things but if we get an injury to Bobby then we're left with Ings and Solanke. Hardly inspirational.

It's so sad that we have no idea what's going on. Is Klopp not going for players like Aubamayung, or are FSG trying to balance the books? We're already out of two winnable trophies, and teams are starting to figure us out like last season.