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Jurgen Klopp is currently enduring a run of five games without a win, with just one victory in 10 overall.

Not since his final season at Borussia Dortmund has he faced such a poor sequence of results.

Some Reds fans are worried. Their belief in the manager has not disappeared, but it has certainly been tested.

Proof, if needed, comes on an enlightening Reddit thread – housed in the Borussia Dortmund section of the website.

A post on the discussion forum has emerged, with a poster called sensei_shafi - a Liverpool fan – seeking advice from those who know Klopp best.

His plea reads: “Liverpool are in relegation form. I wasn’t worried initially, but the tactics aren’t changing. We are playing the same exact way and repeating the same basic mistakes over and over.

“You guys have obviously done it all with Klopp before, and winning back to back league titles is an insane feat for any team. Do you honestly think that Klopp can bring similar success to us? “Because we have no Europe this season, a major advantage over our rivals, and yet we’re bottling it.

“Also, keep in mind we have to deal with four or five other powerhouses in our league, not just Bayern.

“My question is, do you think Klopp will be able to fix things?”

Dortmund fans, the hospitable bunch they are, have responded.

Some have sought to calm down those fears.

Others have done the total opposite.

Icantrememberlogins writes: “Klopp came didn’t win the league until 2010-11.

“Subotic, Schmelzer, Bender, Grosskreutz, Kagawa, Lewandowski, Piszczek, Owomoyela, Santana, Barrios, Da Silva, Langerak, Zidan, Gotze, Stieperman, Fuelner, it took him time to bring in his own players or give players debuts before he had the ones that won him his first trophy.

“There were more of Klopp’s boys in that roster than pre-Klopp boys. Dede, Weidenfeller, Sahin, Kehl, Kuba...

“I’d say give him time to build his squad. Honestly, there are very few players in the current Liverpool side that I would want at BVB today.”

Loeffellux adds to this positive outlook, saying: “I think it’s less that Klopp isn’t a tactician and more that he prefers to use similar tactics to ensure that the players really get behind the system. He is able to deviate from it but he definitely wont experiment as much as other managers liker Pep or Tuchel.

“That does not, of course, make him a worse tactician. Just like how an actor who doesn’t scream and cry in every other scene isn’t a worse actor than someone who does do that. It’s just that a lot of people think that the best actor is the guy who acts the most.

“I think that’s similar to this situation.

“And if it was really just bad luck, bad ref decisions, frustrating counter goals etc. It can suck a lot of there isn’t anything happening to keep you from losing. But maybe that would just make it worse. In 14/15 Klopp was able to turn the ship around that way and got us from last place to Europe in the end.

“I could pretend to know that Klopp’s system may be more vulnerable to these kinds of dry spells because he won’t tinker with his team as much but that would dramatically exaggerate my understanding of all the fine details and mechanisms that influence everything that happens in those 90 minutes.”

User BoxingFan88, meanwhile, believes Klopp needs a goalscorer: “Livepool remind me of how Dortmund struggled in Klopp’s last year, where they dominated teams, but couldn’t break them down and got hit on the counter attack.

“In all fairness they also couldn’t finish chances.

“Liverpool don’t have a striker at the moment either, Sturridge is either injured or very hot and cold.

“Klopp had Lewy and Auba, as well as guys like Reus, Miki, Kagawa and others chipping in with goals as well

“Liverpool need a finisher, you can all point the finger at Klopp but Liverpool haven’t taken the chances and some of the chances missed are just scandalous.

“Splash out on a proper striker, who can put one of those chances away

“Every single team sets up the exact same way to play Liverpool, just like they did against Dortmund, defend with 11 men and hit on a break. If you can get that first goal, it changes the whole complexion of the game, if you can’t then they have a chance to nick a goal and then steal it at the end, like I’m guessing Hull did.”

But not every Dortmund fan is so optimistic about Klopp’s future at Liverpool.

CorpseeaterVZ says: “In my humble opinion and it makes me sad to say this out loud, Klopp had a great idea how to play football. But he is not a good coach. He is probably the most charismatic person in the soccer business, but he is not a good coach. The idea and his charisma were very good for a couple of seasons, but people found a remedy against it. They just defend very, very deep.

“It works amazingly well against good teams, because they refuse to be pressed into their own half, but at the end of his BVB career, even the good teams chose a deep defence, making it harder against the good teams. Klopp’s style is physically very exhausting, so it becomes worse and worse season for season, because players start to burn out.

“What I never understood was that Klopp could not see past his initial idea, change the style against weaker teams. It was basically the opposite, he pressed more and more, because pressing in his opinion is the best playmaker.

“You need a second coach, one with an idea against weaker compositions and Klopp for games against the strong teams.”

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It’s an idea axehomeless agrees with, believing Klopp innovated, but has now been figured out: “I said it once, I’ll say it again.

“The BVB had to be bankrupt, and really really had for several years, for Klopp to be successful.

“And why did he win all he did? Because at the time he didn’t really have to. Dortmund was s*** for years. Teams knew that when you play in Dortmund, it’s second class at best, you can play football and try something here. Once it’s clicked, Dortmund steamrolled, and by the time teams realised what’s happening, it already clicked, which meant that now teams didn’t just have to adjust from attitude, but also tactically quite well, because this level of Gegenpressing was not known at the time.

“This is what gave the three great years (interesting how it’s almost always three great years with football), and from there it slowly went down. Now Klopp has the problem that not just a whole league learned how to play him, but they made a blueprint how you can at least be somewhat effective against a Klopp system.”

*You can read the entire Reddit thread here