Klopp has visibly incorporated more possession Guardiola more direct play and German pressing. What is true, though, is both have already adapted ideas of the other. Whether Klopp and Guardiola succumb to the same problem remains to be seen. It now looks like it might be happening over and over again with Mourinho. It happened over and over again with Wenger. They don’t get wedded to tactical ideas as much as the idea of proving themselves right that what they do can still work. That isn’t so much about ideology, however, as pride.
Prominent figures within the game say they have recognised similar in Mourinho, Wenger and Rafa Benitez. It’s probably true that there’s a stretch where managers have a greater energy, a ferocious hunger before achievement naturally starts to sate them. They’re far too connected to their initial idea. Once the game starts to react, and shift, they struggle to shift with it. Their peak may actually be higher, because the nature of their ideology brings a more intense level of application – see the ‘Dream Team’ or Barcelona 2008-11 – but that ideology is itself dependent on a moment in time. Football-o-Rama was first available in gold status in 2002 as massive multiplayer online football manager game that gathered users from around the world. How football’s financial ceiling distorted the meaning of a model club.
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