The German coach's success at Maiz, Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool shows he could be the best in the business, says the former defender
Christian Ziege believes Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp can rightly be considered the best coach in world football.
"I think you have to be careful with that. To rate the best coach in the world you have to count in all coaches, even the ones working in low-class leagues," former Bayern Munich and Liverpool defender Ziege told Omnisport.
"The conditions that Klopp, Guardiola, Pochettino or Niko Kovac are having, many coaches don't. So you need to be careful with that title."If you take those who everybody talks about, there is no one who did better than Klopp. I'm a big fan of his because he started at Mainz and finished fourth three times in a row in the second division.
"He made Mainz a club who finally got promoted and developed to an incredible club. Then he went to Dortmund. He took this club to German champions and a Champions League title candidate. He elevated this club to a level which they are still today."He went to Liverpool, the club who has been talking about becoming Premier League champions or being more successful for years and has been achieving the same there.
"He won the Champions League and finished second in the league with 97 points, which is mayhem. Now he's leading the league again, even though it is still early in the campaign. This proves to me that he has to be an exceptional coach, because all of this can't happen by accident."
Despite Liverpool's perfect start to the Premier League season, though, Ziege insists the Reds cannot yet be considered favourites to clinch the title.
"They have to face City twice, United twice, Spurs twice, Arsenal once and Chelsea once," he added.
"You can always lose those games and the most difficult part is to win against those teams that are in the bottom of the table. However, the other teams need to overcome the same difficulties in order to catch Liverpool.
"[The start] boosts your confidence, but it can all be gone within two games. It is way to early for a decision, much can happen."
Sholuck
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Klopp is the best to me I really respect his work he is my mentor in my game "top fm" and "perfect soccer"
Ranlpstu
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klopp has made it to 3 uefa champions League finals while pep just twice , klopp brought up mainz from nothing to something, he brought dortmund from nothing to something, brought Liverpool from nothing to something with little money ,,, pep coached barca with messi,xavi n Co what do u expect, he went to bayern what where u expecting and now man city who won the league 2 seasons b4 he could take charge all ready made teams and spends too much money ,,,, klopp is a builder he will be successful no matter where he goes while pep can never ,, if klopp coached barca n bayern at that time blv me he should have doubled peps trophies, klopp hasn't spent upto half of what pep has on man city but still better this season than city , u can't compare the quality of city players with Liverpool but klopp still proving it,,,,klopp is the best manager in the world
sowabdiory
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Spanish coaches says pep is better German coaches says klopp is better
seddimp
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for him klop is the best but for us who sees football beyond,sir pep Guardiola is the best coach in the world,where is klop since he started coaching in England its only pep arrival that dragged him out of slumber,even when Liverpool problem position is gaping that even a childish fan can see,klop was dancing around refusing to plug this problem till the fear of Guardiola pushed him reluctantly to market to rectify those gaping hole that he was able to crawl out of his cave and started lining himself against master Guardiola, trophies pep on top,head to head,pep on top,playing style,pep on top, Thunder fire whoever rates klop more than Guardiola!!! its an anathema!!