Liverpool's disaster is down to Jürgen Klopp's bizarre curse

Although impatience is rampant in modern football and managers are the main victims of this unhappy trend, Jürgen Klopp broke the mould: he began his managerial career in 2001 and managed just three teams in his two-plus decades as a manager. While he had an enviable tenure at all of them, he also suffered from the "curse of the seventh season", something that seems to be repeated at Liverpool in England. And some questioning has already begun to appear, both from fans and also from former players at the club.

The seventh-year karma began with Mainz, his first team. He arrived in February 2001 and won promotion in 2004. It was all joy until the seventh season when he lost the division. Despite staying with the intention of returning to the Bundesliga, he was unable to achieve that goal and had to leave. In his second adventure he took charge of Borussia Dortmund, where he will be remembered for the extremely high profile teams he put together. He arrived in 2011 and in May 2013 he came very close to winning the Champions League against Bayern Munich.

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What titles did he win? Two Bundesliga titles, a German Cup and two German Supercups. However, in the seventh season he could not maintain the same international prominence, nor at home, and he left the club. He enjoyed a few months' rest and then took up coaching at Liverpool, where, after years of hard work, he began to win a string of titles. His honours list includes the Premier League, League Cup, FA Cup and Community Shield (domestic tournaments); Champions League, European Super Cup and Club World Cup (international conquests).

However, they could be affected again by the nightmare of the seventh season: in the Champions League they are second (behind Napoli) but in the Premier League they cannot find their way, to such an extent that they have only 10 points and are 14 behind leaders Arsenal. To make matters worse, they are already being questioned. Dietmar Hamann, a former player with the club, is beginning to see the end of the manager's seven-year spell in charge at Liverpool. "At some point, I think we will have that discussion about the manager and I'm not sure how far away we are from that.

The curse of a seventh season

The manager has said he still thinks he's the right man to do it, but I see little things like Jordan Henderson seeing his number come off and reluctantly taking the armband off and walking out, shaking his head," he said in dialogue with TalkSport. He immediately continued: "This is something we haven't seen at Liverpool for five years. Maybe it's little signs that people have little problems with the team or even the manager. The dynamic at Liverpool is no different to anywhere else, and if the results are not there, the manager is under pressure.