“We Have to Keep Our Cool”

He is the type of person that if you laboured in a normal working environment you would hate because of his passion and his true grit and determination to succeed at what he does. But when it comes to football he is the type of professional every supporter dears but we will not include the team from Buhr fifteen miles down the road. This individual of course is the entertaining Jürgen Klopp or ‘Kloppo’ known to most around the working class area of Dortmund. He unassumingly just fits Borussia Dortmund and he certainly is just like every follower that turns up at the Signal Iduna Park every weekend as he comes to work and goes home. The impressions from many football supporters is that there is a genuine respect for the man and witnessing a manager caring about his team on the touchline as he fist punches the air every time his team scores is what many followers want at their own beloved team.

The romantic journey for Jürgen Klopp and the BVB enthusiasts started in May 2008 as he was approached by the club due to him resigning as manager at Mainz 05, after they failed to achieve promotion from 2 Bundesliga and this resulted in him signing a two year contract with ‘Die Schwarzgelben’. Borussia Dortmund approached Jürgen Klopp as they finished disappointedly in thirteenth place the season before under manager Thomas Doll and since this moment the passion has been evident for all to see. Jürgen Klopp has given the Borussia Dortmund crowd fantastic events with ones they can hold onto for the rest of their lives. He has brought back a belief to the BVB faithful and they had to wait a while, as they had not seen anything like this since their great manager Ottmar Hitzfeld.

The big problem ‘Kloppo’ has now is keeping up with Pep’s Bayer München as they grow from strength to strength. You could put it out there that Bayern’s second team would give Borussia Dortmund’s first team a fair shot. Borussia Dortmund is struggling with the injuries that they have now and this was clearly apparent when the two sides met a couple of weeks ago when Bayern München beat them 3-0 on BVB’s own turf. The unpretentious solution to this would be of course to sign new players when the next transfer window opens up and obviously the next one begins in a few weeks time.

But Jürgen Klopp is not getting carried away as he knows that there is a strong possibility that Dortmund may not even sign anybody. He was asked by ARD about whether he thought there would be any new inclusions and said, "At this point in time I would say 'no'" and went on further more by gesturing, "We have to keep our cool."

Obviously at the moment and mentioned earlier in this article ‘Die Borussen’ have major injury concerns, which could play a part in their UEFA Champions League crunch match away to Marseille. The German side has a quantity of grievance apprehensions, with significant performers such as Mats Hummels, Marcel Schmelzer, Ilkay Gundogan and Neven Subotic all on the injury slope. Klopp was asked further whether this concerned him and did this give him more of an incentive to sign players, "We definitely consider those scenarios in terms of player transfers," and went on further by saying, "We have injured players, of course, but it's only Neven Subotic whose season is already over now."

But you get the feeling that Borussia Dortmund need to strengthen as they are not closing the gap with Bayern München. The Dortmund faithful will want to be competing with the Bavarians for every trophy and this belief needs to be put back into the players at Dortmund. They know that they cannot compete commercially with München but they know they can with their feet so consolidating the team is one step closer to fixing the solution.