Running through the defeats that took his Borussia Dortmund team to the foot of the Bundesliga, 18 months after they had been Champions League finalists, may seem among the more unorthodox. For Ian Graham, Liverpoolâs former director of research, there was method to the apparent madness.
âI was nervous,â he said. âMy guess was his personality was just for the cameras, for the media, but it is really not. He just doesnât have a filter, so how he would speak to you is exactly the same as how he would speak to me or some guy on the streets he had met. He is very enthusiastic and emotionally engaged.â So Graham discovered, as he delved into the seemingly dry topic of the expected goals of various shots in matches of Kloppâs awful autumn of 2014.
âI think the first was against Mainz. His response was, âWe fucking destroyed them in the game, did you see it?â He clearly had the image of the chance they missed,â Graham recalled. âI could not believe it. âThey score this goal eight times out of 10!â Yeah, thatâs exactly what expected goals says. The second game was, âOh, fuck, we were so unlucky in that game, I cannot believe it.ââ
And if it creates an image of an animated Klopp in a Melwood office, still as annoyed by losses a year later, it helped forge an understanding. âThat was a really nice way in,â Graham said.
âIt was a way for me to say, âHey, Jurgen, we think youâre great and when [German newspaper] Bild was saying you were rubbish, we still thought you were great â you were just unlucky.ââ Grahamâs numbers showed that, even in a year when Dortmund finished seventh, they were still the second-best team in Germany.
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