As I said in another thread, this will turn into a long-running media obsession from now on, but it IS unfair. He lost two finals to Bayern and one to Werder Breman - at the time, on form and regarding the respective squads, that was no great shock. Here he's inherited a squad that DOES choke in the decisive games, and he's got to find a way to change that. It's depressing because we've got to go on another long, long slog to reach the point where we can show we've beaten it.
These players are serial flatterers to deceive. Big flashy league wins, followed by horrible capitulations to relegation battlers. Brilliant cup wins followed by dismal collapses in finals. The memory of that lurks in our minds and those of our opponents - other teams are spurred on, a goal down, by the thought that, in the past, we've let teams back in. And we know that, too. I've no doubt that Klopp and his assistants can send us out into future finals with the right plan, but changing the psychology of a team is tougher.
When we used to win things every season, the fact that the players expected to win got us through so many tough games it was unreal. We've since seen the mancs do the same. Now it's the opposite. It's no accident we've lost so many leads after coasting through first halves. It's the most mentally frail squad I've ever seen at Liverpool, and it does worry me when you see yet another example added to the memory.
