Diaz wanted to go. Although we could have kept him, we have form for not keeping players against their wishes. In the grand scheme of things I think that helps us, rather than hurts us. Players come to Liverpool knowing that we are a professional outfit who will treat them well, in good times and bad.
Diaz wanted out, so we allowed it and extracted a good price for him. I can live with that, even if he is a very good player.
Yes thats an inevitable side effect of charismatic leaders, but its that which I think we miss, and am now leaning to the idea, poor Slot has been served this too, and someone has changed the club too much too fast. Slot isnt the same type of manager as Klopp in a key sense; he isnt charismatic. And cant therefore fill the hole.
Ok, I admit I am running on 2.5 hours of sleep today, but I am counting 7 home losses for 20/21 alone.
Burnley, BHA, City, Everton, Chelsea, Fulham, Atalanta.
Then 5 draws ontop of that.
We need to stop pining over the past, which isn’t as good as we believe it was.
We have the right to talk about and admire Klopp forever in this forum.
But to keep thinking the great man should waltz back in and save the day is fanciful. He’s left the room, the ship has sailed and we can all have fond memories.
At least we won the League after the great Klopp left, unlike that other mob down the road who have been a basket case for so long now.
Definitely about his legacy for me. Gave me the best memories I’ll probably have in my life supporting Liverpool. No one is saying it was all perfect. It was how he dealt with adversity, bringing the team back from losing cup finals, and missing the league by a point, to achieve success. That was all part of the story. Turning doubters into believers.
There’s no way he could commit for long enough to create another story and I would also worry about a negative impact on his legend
Wouldn’t bet against it, things change very quickly in football.
If we turned to him now and said “Jurgen, we’re desperate…give us half a season to stabilise the club, you’re the one to do that, we need you”, I reckon he’d at least have a re-think.