Brighton (A) Sat 14th of January
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4th was long gone anyway. The team's fundamental identity was off-ball creation, winning duels in midfield and CBs defending long balls 1v1. It's all completely broken. The attackers who lead the press - Diaz, Jota and Firmino are all injured. The midfielders are all 30+ and are simply not capable of winning duels anymore. VVD and Konate are probably still capable of defending 1v1, but that requires everything ahead of them working well.
The criticisms of Salah or Trent miss the wood for the trees.
Only chance for an assist. 3-0 no worse than 2 nil. At least Gomez has more speed than Matip to cover.
It's amazing what a balanced midfield does for a club.
Klopp and his staff, maybe, but I doubt even the players thought so.
But I think the season is write off. We’ll rebuild again, starting from next season but only if Klopp actually believes that midfield is gone. If he doesn’t, we’re stuffed.
We are being so comprehensively outplayed today, its hard to see how we save this season.
Every great manager had a period when they look clueless. It’s not east to turn around a sinking ship.
I wouldn't be confident that any team we can currently put out would beat Brighton.
At least you can learn something new though, while losing.
At least you can learn something new though, while losing.
Thing is, it makes it so much harder to rebuild from a position of weakness like we are. We've missed so many chances to supplement this rotting midfield and elsewhere, but we've just been sat playing with our dicks
It's the most basic fucking thing, to strengthen from strength. How have we fucked it this badly?
Our young attackers with some energy. Elliot has to do better.
loyalty (great quality) and arrogance (shit quality)
He did change things earlier in the season, when we looked just as clueless though.
We sat back. were compact and ground out some low scoring wins. 442, or what it was.
Nah it's our own doing. Had we steadily added to the midfield and the squad over the past couple of years, we'd be in a much better position. We got complacent. It's our own fault.
*vomits*
Do we though? Big money on Diaz a year ago. Nunez in the summer. Now Gakpo. We're never going to match City, Chelsea or United spending. Just is how it is.
At the end of Quad attempting season we knew we needed a rebuild, MAne was not going to sign another deal, and they went for replacing Mane with Nunez. And the Nunez sale had to be paid for by Sales. FSG were not going to sanction any net transfers. Klopp probably begged for a MF and they get Mello, how much Klopp had a say in that transfer or was it, that's the best we can do.
Jota gets injured followed Diaz, we wait till Jan, they address the striker shortage, and not many were grumbling at the signing of Gakpo.
THIS IS ALL TO DO WITH FSG - HOW DO YOU EXPECT TO REBUILD A SQUAD WHILST DEALING WITH INJURY ISSUES WHEN YOUR BUDGET IS THE SAME SIZE AS SOUTHAMPTON?
PEOPLE SHOULD PROTEST OUTSIDE ANFIELD WITH "FSG OUT!!!" IT MIGHT FORCE THEM TO TOTALLY SELL.
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