.... we punched well above our weight at the start of the season, played a bit of nice fast flowing football. Our tactics got sussed quickly, our team of largely championship quality players couldn't keep pace with our managers high-tempo style of play, the same manager who stubbornly refuses to bring in the quality we need and rather than provide answers prefers to weave a spell of mumbled BS to the interviewer in the hope his smug grin can somehow overcome the hopelessness of the situation.
We we never going to win the title, there's no silverware in the running and top 4 / CL is so unlikely now.
Bargain basement mediocrity returns to haunt those once hallowed halls of Anfield.
This can only change with a root and branch overhaul and proper targeted and strategic investment in a team worthy of wearing the shirt.
Welcome to the new reality..
posted on 4/2/17
How about give it some time?
Teams have bad games. Get over it. I highly doubt this is the side that Klopp wants at Liverpool, give him chance to implement his style. He's been given time everywhere he has been and has largely signed good, consistent performers everywhere he has gone and even at Liverpool. You've got to give Klopp time, every team goes through a bad spell, Liverpool are no different.
Chelsea and United were poor at the start of the season. Spurs had 5/6 games where they struggled. Liverpool and Arsenal have struggled a bit now as well. It happens. You can't be at your best for 38 games. Yes, it was poor from Liverpool today and shows the amount of work left to do, but once they can get 2/3 better players in that side, they will get there.
Klopp was given a long term contract for a reason, he will produce the goods when given time, faith and resources.
posted on 4/2/17
Forget United, Everton will catch us.
posted on 4/2/17
comment by Better Call Zlatan - Football taught by Matt Busby (U11781)
posted 4 minutes ago
This bloke is the biggest fraud of a Liverpool fan you'll get, he was all over our board earlier on the season giving it billy big bolllocks and now he wants Klopp out. Stick to another sport mate, football aint for you.
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Just loving it...
posted on 4/2/17
Majority of our players were destroying teams first half of the season. The problem is mental because the players are the same. This also stems from the fans. The quiet nervous atmosphere at Anfield in previous games has spread to the players and they cant shake it off. The so called smaller teams have been parking the bus and countering all season - only difference is not the players but the fact that everything is slower and less runners taking risks due to mentality. Injuries also a factor. Lallana, Can, Couthino, Hendo, Clyne, Sturridge have not been the same since their injuries.
posted on 4/2/17
The OP is a wum and is not a liverpool fan. Klopp will stay here a long time so give up on bashing our manager. He will get more of his own players in the summer and we will get better.
posted on 4/2/17
I agree with the above.
I've said a few times the formation doesn't suit them now. Playing 3 midfielders with one being a DM and 2 CM doesn't help the team because they end up playing in front of a block of 5 shirts of the oppositions midfield. The full backs don't go forward because they are scared of the counter attack and then don't exploit the spaces well enough don't Liverpool.
When Liverpool do take a risk with a full back bombing on or a midfield runner between the lines, they get goals. Wijnaldum's goals against City and Chelsea the obvious examples of late. But it's all very pedestrian and passive football.
posted on 4/2/17
comment by The Mane Man (U19731)
posted 16 minutes ago
The OP is a wum and is not a liverpool fan. Klopp will stay here a long time so give up on bashing our manager. He will get more of his own players in the summer and we will get better.
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Ah, that old chestnut. You can't criticise without being accused of not being a fan or supporter. A yet my games record would suggest otherwise, albeit I will admit these are all home games and not away.
I'm perfectly entitled to highlight reality. Of course if you are happy with only focussing on our past and some, as yet determined, distant future this is your prerogative. I prefer the here and now, and as a supporter I can only conclude our current performance is woeful, and so entirely justifies criticism given how much these individuals are paid to perform.
posted on 4/2/17
Partly the system, partly the manager looking like a rabbit stuck in the headlights when things go wrong, and mostly the fact that Lallana, Coutinho, and Milner have been beyond flucking woeful in the last 3 or 4 games.
Probably beat Spurs next week, then get turned over by a bag of $h!te the following week.
posted on 4/2/17
You can criticise the team and the manager but Klopp is a quality manager and to say he has to go is quite frankly ridiculous.
We are in the doldrums at the moment, Klopp will be feeling the pressure now, he's said that solutions have to be found, let's see if he finds them.
posted on 4/2/17
This isn't a particularly unfamiliar position for Klopp. There was one stage in his final season at Dortmund where they were nearing the halfway stage on the season/early season and Dortmund were bottom of the Bundesliga. He still guided them into Europe.
Klopp still knows what he is doing when under pressure and when his team isn't playing well.