The most predictable story of the year gets the ‘bombshell’ treatment while The Sun have their FA Cup draw conspiracy theories and eat them, and the Daily Express immediately lose all confidence in an idea that exists only in their heads.
It’s just another standard day in Mediawatch Land, basically.
Enjoy.
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Mediawatch frequently comes across stories that contain absolutely no viable content whatsoever. Mediawatch frequently comes across stories that promise a ‘bombshell’.
But even now, in the journalistic wasteland that is the year of someone’s lord 2026, it’s still pretty rare to come across one that combines both.
Even an underwhelming, oversold ‘bombshell’ usually has some trace, homeopathic levels of explosive power.
Not this effort from the Mirror, though.
‘KLOPP OF THE LIST! Klopp’s response to Man Utd, Chelsea AND England approaches come to light as agent makes bombshell statement’
If your first thought is that you reckon you could have a pretty good guess at what might be the response to such approaches of a man whose oft-stated position on ever being a manager again is ‘probably not, and definitely not anyone other than Liverpool in England’ then congratulations, you are correct.
He turned them down. Obviously. But the other important thing here is what form these ‘approaches’ took.
Because Klopp’s agent, Marc Kosicke is very throwaway in his summary of these things. There is no suggestion of serious talks or even particularly a serious enquiry.
‘”Maybe at some point he’ll say he needs to smell the locker room again. But at the moment he’s very, very happy in his role. Before joining Red Bull, Jurgen could have coached the USA or England national teams. Probably also Germany, if Julian Nagelsmann hadn’t already been there.
“Even Chelsea and Manchester United enquired, although Jurgen had clearly stated that he would not coach any other club in England. These inquiries haven’t stopped.”
The implication here is pretty clear. What’s happened is that Manchester United and Chelsea, when in need of new managers, checked in with the agent of an excellent former Premier League manager just to double-check his views hadn’t changed. That’s it. You’re talking one phone call here.
Now we can all enjoy the thought of Jason Wilcox getting pied off very quickly in that phone call, but that’s all it is. It’s not like Chelsea or United or anyone else had drawn up contracts and were fully expecting him to sign on the dotted line.
They made cursory enquiries that it would, frankly, have been negligent not to make despite knowing the overwhelmingly likely outcome of those approaches. That overwhelmingly likely outcome being two-fold: Klopp saying no; and the Daily Mirror later pretending that any of what just happened there constitutes a bombshell.
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