Germany have five points from four Nations League games and sit third in their group, three months into the Klopp era. Into that context, one of the voices who played through his Borussia Dortmund peak has stepped forward with an endorsement.

Patrick Owomoyela won two Bundesliga titles and the DFB-Pokal under Klopp between 2008 and 2013. At a media roundtable in Munich he told Bulinews that the Germany manager can turn things around quickly.

“He is able to change the important things in a short matter of time, and that’s what makes him a good fit,” Owomoyela said.

Klopp had been out of club management since leaving Liverpool in 2024 when the DFB turned to him after Germany’s World Cup elimination by Paraguay in the round of 32.

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Julian Nagelsmann resigned, and Klopp’s four-year contract was announced by the DFB on 24 July, running through to 2030.

What Dortmund looked like under Klopp

Owomoyela described a coach whose impact arrived in weeks rather than seasons: a dressing room built on hard work laced with freedom, tactical instructions delivered as mental images players could carry onto the pitch, and a relentless style he summed up in three words.

“It was hunt, hunt, hunt, always hunt.”

He said Klopp was the loudest voice in the room, used that volume to lift his players, and drew scenarios so clearly they played out like a film in a player’s head. That identity took years at Dortmund to coalesce into back-to-back Bundesliga titles.

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Mixed Nations League start

Translating the style to a national team, where contact with players is measured in days rather than weeks, has not been straightforward. Germany drew 1-1 away to the Netherlands in Klopp’s first match in charge, lost 1-0 at home to Greece, beat Serbia 2-0 and then drew 0-0 in Greece.

Two wins this month could lift Germany to 11 points and still not guarantee a top-two finish, Bundesliga.com reports, with head-to-head results against the Netherlands and Greece decisive if teams finish level.

Klopp names his November squad on Thursday 5 November, before Germany travel to Serbia on 13 November and host the Netherlands in Berlin on 16 November.

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