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John Barnes says the Red Devils need to abandon the 'Manchester United way', much like Liverpool did in 2015
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00:00Now, unfortunately, I think from your point of view,
00:01from Man United's point of view,
00:02we're still looking at the way it was back then
00:04and this is not the Man United way.
00:06You know, in the old days, this is the Liverpool way.
00:08Forget that. We have to have a new way.
00:10And I think until Man United say,
00:11we have to have a new way,
00:12regardless of what went on in the past,
00:13all you'll be doing is trying to live up to the standards of the past.
00:16And Liverpool went through that for a long time
00:17until Jurgen came when they said,
00:19we don't care what Dalglish and Shankly,
00:22not in a bad way, did.
00:23What do you want to do?
00:25That is when all of a sudden...
00:26Why was it when Jurgen came, do you think?
00:28You know, if you look at Man United,
00:29what's it going to take?
00:30Well, because Liverpool has an identity
00:33of the environment and Jurgen is like that.
00:37Never mind he gets it, he's like that.
00:38I don't think Jurgen could go to Real Madrid, Bayern Munich.
00:41He's quite a socialist who likes...
00:42He doesn't like the superstar thing
00:43and he likes to be a man of the people, if you like.
00:45Yeah.
00:46And I think that he suits Liverpool.
00:48And then once the fans love a manager and back a manager,
00:50the players then have to perform.
00:51And once he comes down,
00:53because we have some superstar players,
00:54I don't have to mention any names,
00:55who, under different circumstances,
00:56I'll use Aubameyang at Arsenal,
00:58when he got away with stuff.
00:59And whenever he was left out of the team,
01:00they booed the manager, sat the manager.
01:02Then Arteta came and Arteta was strong
01:03and look what happens now.
01:04Klopp had a couple of players
01:05where before, leave him out,
01:07the fans are going to boo him,
01:08say put him on the pitch.
01:09He didn't and the fans still backed him.
01:10So until the fans are going to back the manager
01:12and give him 100% carte blanche to do anything
01:14and look at the outcome of that.
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