Management is hard. Football evolves constantly. For a head coach to keep developing occasionally at the cost of what has worked in the past, to stay ahead of the game, is brutally tough and requires insight and self-belief.
It is enormously to Jurgen Klopp's credit that in his ninth season at Liverpool, after seven at Borussia Dortmund, he recognised that fatigue was gnawing at him and left.
Identifying a manager on the way up, about to blossom, with a decade of greatness ahead, is hard. Almost by definition they will not yet have achieved great things.
Most managerial careers are relatively short. The notion of a proven winner is consoling but meaningless shorthand. There is always a context; every career has an arc.
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