Might get a decent sell on fee yet!!
Dominant Solanke
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It’ll pay for Salah for a week.
I’d forgotten we’d rinsed Bournemouth for that much.
Ah fuck really? Lol we might get 100k
If he goes part time
Indeed people dont realize, that it has cost us potential titles and cups. The year we lost the CL final, we turned up with a crippled midfied, it was all over as soon as Salah came off. That crippled midfield was due to us not getting an extra midfielder in after selling Coutinho in January.
Last season, we fucked up coz we never replaced Lovren, and this season we never replaced Gini knowing the rest of them are just so fucking unreliable.
One.
Thiago and Keita are ridiculous injury prone so that knocks you down to 6. Fabinho gets his fair share of injuries, Milner is 68, Ox is shite, then you're relying on kids in Jones and Elliott.
It wasn't bad luck. Most people identified the need for another central midfielder. Particularly a defensive one.
8 midfielders? Come on man.
Milner is a million years old.
Fabinho, Thiago and Henderson all miss games during the course of the season.
Keita and Ox are sick notes and in the case of the latter at least nowhere near good enough to play for us.
Jones and Elliot are kids that should be getting minutes when suits rather than being relied upon to win games.
Much in the way that a injury crisis in defence was forseeable last season an injury crisis in midfield this season was pretty forseeable too.
Yes, we started with 8 midfielders. Whether they are of sufficient quality is up for debate of course. I agree a few of them need replacing, in particular Ox for a DM, but you know how it goes. "The reds got no money...", and all that.
Harvey took Gini's spot, the midfield numbers are the same as last year. We just got unlucky it's our midfield this season. We had more than enough in midfield last season.
8 but that’s disregarding the injury records of the main preferred starters.
Another key issue is not every one of those is able to play DM which is key too.
I also disagree that we didn’t have the issue last year, the knock on effect from no defenders was key midfielders being taken out of midfield which cost us and we have yet again same issue this season. I think the constant so over the last 2 yrs has been lack of quality CM particulary DM cover.
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It's not luck at all. We had only 1 midfielder in the squad that was fit to start every single week. We let him go and had no replacement. Saying we had 8 midfielders is factually correct but also pointless as you can be pretty much certain 3 or 4 of them will be inured at any given time.
Ox who is by most accounts 8th choice started against Atletico, and then came off injured.
I don't know if you're having a go at me or agreeing with me...
If Howe gets the Newcastle gig..
Agreeing
Well he can only work with what he's got, if the finances aren't there who's that on? Or rather, if others aren't allowing the finances to be there, who is that on? Our selling policy is largely great, we need to sort Mo's contract though.
Yeah, that's why I said it might be harsh because I don't know what constraints he's working with.
I'd say our selling policy has some question marks over it too.
We've seen two big assets leave on a free and several squad players hanging on sometimes with new contracts year after year despite clearly being a measure of last resort for the manager.
Again, I'm sure Klopp has had influence (certainly with keeping Can and Gini to the end I would say) and there are other constraints, but still.
It's worth caveating all this again by saying things are as good as they've been in a really long time with Edwards, Klopp and the rest. It's just frustrating that we've struggled to get that last 5-10% that is sometimes the difference between winning trophies and not.
[article]Former Liverpool striker Dominic Solanke has lauded Jurgen Klopp for his man management skills.
The German has built a reputation as one of the best managers in world football, having won titles with Borussia Dortmund and the Reds.
And Solanke has opened up on how Klopp genuinely cares for all of his players.
Asked about his time working with Klopp, Solanke told Goal: "It was really good.
"What he's done is phenomenal. I was there to witness the transition that he made in the squad.
"He really cares about his players and he's moulded them into winners."[/article]
The German has built a reputation as one of the best managers in world football, having won titles with Borussia Dortmund and the Reds.
And Solanke has opened up on how Klopp genuinely cares for all of his players.
Asked about his time working with Klopp, Solanke told Goal: "It was really good.
"What he's done is phenomenal. I was there to witness the transition that he made in the squad.
"He really cares about his players and he's moulded them into winners."[/article]
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