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Are Liverpool proof coaches don't matter? Or is Slot just better than Klopp?

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Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool won the Premier League title in his first season in charge of the club.

The Reds won the title, clinching the 2024-25 title, but there was a person missing from the celebrations.

The players decide what happens out there, and managers are overrated in our influence.

Despite what managers tell us, we don't listen to them, we read into tactical ideas that randomly occur.

The trickiest part of talking about managers is that no one can really know what kind of effect they have.

A study from this year 's Sloan Sports Analytics Conference found that most managers cluster around the middle: providing no notable effect on performance, positive or negative.

In theory, there's a near-endless pool of actively bad managers out there.

Then there are a few positive outliers, too: Guardiola and Klopp .

Jurgen Klopp's style of play and approach to daily training often left the team without its best players.

Liverpool players talked about how much they liked Slot 's clear plans and attention to detail.