All reports from reliable people were that FSG were ready to fully support Klopp financially and make multiple record signings. I believe it was entirely Klopp's call. He's been very consistent in his belief in his current squad.
lopp was also the one who said there aren't 5 better CBs than what they have coming into the season.I think you're misunderstanding. Klopp wasn't the person who decided to only sign Oxlade-Chamberlain. I am very certain he would have wanted all three of those players.
lopp was also the one who said there aren't 5 better CBs than what they have coming into the season.
The Liverpool manager wishes to sign Theo Walcott, despite Arsène Wenger's desire to hold on to the player, and has deals lined up for the remainder of this transfer window. Any permanent captures over the next 48 hours, however, rest on raising funds and reducing the wage bill from the existing squad, meaning one or more of Carroll, Charlie Adam, Joe Cole and Jay Spearing will have to go for Walcott or Fulham's Clint Dempsey to move to Merseyside.
This comment gets way overblown on this board IMO. Do you think it's more likely that Klopp actually believes that, or that he knows it's not true and was trying to instill some confidence in Lovren?lopp was also the one who said there aren't 5 better CBs than what they have coming into the season.
All reports from reliable people were that FSG were ready to fully support Klopp financially and make multiple record signings. I believe it was entirely Klopp's call. He's been very consistent in his belief in his current squad.
A lot of people were complaining about it, but we also support our manager and hope that he can do a lot with what he's got. This season goes a long way in forming my opinion of Klopp.You guys should be calling for Klopp's head then. Everybody saw holes in Liverpools squad.
You guys should be calling for Klopp's head then. Everybody saw holes in Liverpools squad.
A lot of people were complaining about it, but we also support our manager and hope that he can do a lot with what he's got. This season goes a long way in forming my opinion of Klopp.
Klopp don't do DMsIt's not just Lovren though. Matip has been brutal, and it doesn't help when the have Can, Moreno and two teenagers manning the right flank this season with limited experience. Finally Mignolet hasn't been as good as he was last year either.
Our defence, or more importantly our defensive structure, needs a complete overhaul. TAA and Gomez are very promising, as is Robertson, and it'll be nice to have Clyne back but something that would really help this team is a true defensive midfielder. Not every team needs one, but this one does. Can's issues aside, nobody in this midfield has the discipline to really protect our defence and there's always missed marks and huge gaping holes in the midfield at different points in the game.
How many players on this current team would be in the starting XI on a silverware winning Liverpool side besides Keita, Mane and Coutinho (who will leave this summer without CL). Maybe Lallana and Salah? That’s it. Matip, Firmino and Wijnaldum could be on the bench, maybe Henderson. Clyne probably, the kids like Gomez, Woodburn and Trent; maybe Solanke.
That’s probably it. It’s a problem. Carragher said it best. The defense has been a problem since Rodgers and besides Matip, it’s the same personnel. Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. The players aren’t good enough and Klopp isn’t elevating them either. Something isn’t right.
I don't really agree with your assessment. Mane, Salah, Firmino, Coutinho, Wijnaldum and Clyne would/could all be starters on a silverware winning side.
A full year after De Bruyne left Chelsea.
Too much focus on individual players anyway. Could have said the same thing about Brown, O´Shea etc. etc.
The year of the famous slip Pool almost won the league with Flanagan playing 23 games.
Not sure why people focus on Firmino's finishing rate. He's not a striker, at least not in the traditional sense.
Guys like Lovren and Matip go from team of the season type play on other teams to terrible perofrmances with Liverpool. Look at teams like Swansea, Southampton, Brighton, Huddersfield, etc. who have allowed less goals than Liverpool -- do they have better defenders? The answer is pretty straightforward: they don't. They can organize their defence better though and their midfield makes a point of taking care of their defenders as well.
Then you don't understand the system. Firmino's job isn't to score goals it's to facilitate the play for the wide forwards (the main goal scorers) and the midfielders. If he pots some goals too that's great, but how his role works just isn't made to have him be prolific. He should be a 10 but we don't play the 4-2-3-1 that would suit him best.People should focus on Firmino’s finishing rate because he is a striker at Liverpool. Traditionally or not, strikers have to score goals. Period. There strikers are a disaster. They need to overhaul that position completely. I think there is a role for Firmino but they need a better finisher ASAP
Then you don't understand the system. Firmino's job isn't to score goals it's to facilitate the play for the wide forwards (the main goal scorers) and the midfielders. If he pots some goals too that's great, but how his role works just isn't made to have him be prolific. He should be a 10 but we don't play the 4-2-3-1 that would suit him best.