Sorry I missed last Friday. Busy day, turns out. I wrote about what happened on Friday, today:

Outside of Manchester City's Pep Guardiola, [Jurgen] Klopp has no peers among his managerial contemporaries. He's keeping the company of ghosts and men who stopped coaching a long time ago. A "normal" coach? Hardly.

In other words, Klopp is irreplaceable -- but Liverpool still do have to replace him. So, how might they do it?

I was on ESPN FC Live today to talk about Klopp and Liverpool — among other things:

And I was on ESPN FC Live on Friday to talk about Klopp and Liverpool — among other things:

Also on Friday, I wrote about the the other big team that’s soon to be without its legendary manager:

Neither Madrid nor Girona are playing at a level anywhere near where they'd need to be for us to feel confident that either one will be able to keep up the current pace, but they've already banked so many points that it makes Barcelona's struggles this season seem way worse than they really are. So, as we get into the other reasons for Barcelona's current crisis -- and we start blaming specific people -- let's be clear that it all pales in comparison to the Catalan club being on the wrong side of all the variance that occurs at the moment when a foot or a head makes contact with a ball.

Happy Tuesday!