Pep Lijnders is in his second stint as assistant manager at Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp has long praised his No 2 for the Dutchman's influence on tactical affairs
Jurgen Klopp has never been shy to hail the influence of assistant manager Pep Lijnders - and little wonder given it was his idea that turned around Liverpool's form last season.
It wasn't enough to secure a spot in the Champions League, with Klopp and co instead returning to Europa League football for the 2023/24 campaign. But it sent a warning to the rest of the Premier League that the Merseyside outfit were still a force to be reckoned with. And it was Lijnders who was the brains behind the operation. In fact, the Dutchman was so convinced on the idea that according to Liverpool.com, he even offered to give up a full year's worth of his salary to Klopp if the tactical switch did not pay dividends.
"The team became compact again with the ball," he said. "The team became together again and we were really balanced, we didn't suffer counter-attacks how we suffered them before. A little change can be enough for players to feel free and comfortable again."However, the former NEC boss did concede that the plan was derived from elsewhere. John Stones proved a revelation when pushing into a more advanced role for Man City, a notion that intrigued Lijnders.
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