My Dearest Bitches
This entire discussion has bought out the c*nt in all of us to a degree, it has revealed those who have become deluded with our current position in the PL, and those that see the bigger picture. I must take blame for starting all this by saying we needed a player with some "ompth", and then
@Dreambeliever (and
@manwithnoname ) explaining it in a much better way than I ever could. However, it seems that even their reasoned approach to explaining why we need to sign someone special is failing to impress upon those deluded individuals. As explained already we as a team are where we are mainly as a collective - but ask yourself these questions:-
1) What scares you about the opposition we face
2) How hard have we worked to get to our position now compared to the team above us and the those that are a few points below us
3) How can opposing teams limit our so called great 'individuals' that play for us
I will answer these questions:-
On Point(1) - I see players in the other top teams who have a couple of players at least that can attack opposing defenders with pace. We have one that just about fills that role in Mane. Don't tell me Coutinhio is one of those players - if anything he can easily be stopped if they prevent him from finding the area where he likes to shoot from - he is inconsistent at best. Chelsea's Hazard, and to a certain extent Willian can run at pace, and create something out of nothing, Arsenal can also do that with their pacey young players, and so can City, and so can Spurs with effective use of their fullbacks, and Anthony Martial plus Rashford scare the shit out of me when they have the ball. You know why ? - because they can run at you and get into dangerous areas to create havoc.
On Point(2) - We need to keep possession, move, pass constantly to defend and attack, our rivals don't need to do that to the same level we do. Therefore our holding onto second place is like Rocky Balboa in the movies - all bloodied and fucked up just to stand while our rivals can do it with relative ease and without exhausting their players. If you have those pacey skill full runners then they alone can take the pressure out of a complicated build up play. In other words we are on thin ice. That is why if we play badly as a collective then we have no chance of winning. For those of you who have run a business - think of it as manning an office or shop with good staff but not enough people so they are working twice as hard, and covering each others roles when needed. Contrast this with an office/shop where there are a large number of employees at the right level - those people won't be worked so hard like the former. I actually think that those players who have previously worked for Klopp are not shouting to join him because they know they will have to work twice as hard than being in one of the other top team because of what he expects.
On Point (3) - Many times it seems to easy to stop us in the final third. We don't have a strong standing presence up front who fight, we have skill tempered with slow pace (except for Mane). Klopp is trying to get the best out of our players but they are limited really as shown in the last two seasons, and constantly on the edge of inconsistency.
I said before the Southampton game we were going to lose 1-0 or 3-0 - I got criticized but I was right because I could see that without Mane we have no one that a decent opposition defense will be put on alert over. I really think we have ZERO chance of getting anything at United on Sunday - and I really hope I am wrong.
MORON
