How is this lad doing! Hope he is fine. 
This isnāt a good sign. I think there are some big factors as to why a Keita departure should be pushed for this summer. Its a ruthless call maybe but I think Klopp may be getting tempted.
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It wasnāt a good sign when he was selected start tonight. It was a strange decision by Klopp and people need to realise that Keita just isnāt good enough. 60 million pissed down the drain.
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Well if you look at it from a contribution type scale thereās sadly only one answer.
Whoās buying is the big question.
For me his LFC career so far consists of one glorious turn in the Merseyside Derby, a permanent berth on the treatment table and dancing on one leg when we won Ole Big Ears.
Thatās not the kind of memories we really need.
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Heās shite!
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Sorry Naby. You just are not good enough or fit enough often to work here. With your contract coming to an end in 2023 this summer is one of the last chances to get a āgoodā fee for you. I reckon JĆ¼rgen will try and take advantage of that. Maybe Leipzig might take him back.
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Been a waste of ā¬60m. Needs to go.
Done nothing since he got here bar a handful of 20 minute periods of games.
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Yeah, Iāve had faith in him but last night was diabolical and for me personally just about the last straw. He needs to step up or ship out. His application last night was embarrassing; he let players have all the time in the world on the ball, tracked nobody and when he did get on the ball was only slightly faster than the expansion of the Great Rift Valley.
I must confess to uttering a variety of unsavoury words aimed at his general person upon his removal.
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Would have no problem with him leaving if we could get a decent deal done this summer.
But, the decision to start him last night was a mental one. Heās played less than 150 minutes since we beat Palace in mid December.
Iām guessing he was put in there to hassle and chase Kroos and Modric so they didnāt have much time on the ball. A bit of a thankless task really if youāre coming back off a long lay off and arenāt match fit. And itās not like anyone else played that well either. Think Klopp needs to shoulder some blame on that.
The thing that frustrates me is he just doesnāt seem to impose himself on games. Its as if heās a bit too mild mannered and meek when heās on the pitch. His confidence seems shot and chucking him in the deep end then hooking him just before half time doesnāt feel like great man management to me.
That or Klopp is sending a message and we likely wonāt see Naby much again this season with a view to engineering a move for him this summer. God knows who would be willing to take the risk and that has the cash to give us something reasonable though. Maybe if we give Leipzig ā¬40m for Konate theyāll give us half of that back for him.
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Iāll never get on a players back, unless they are a central defender, but Iām getting the point of losing patience with this lad.
There is a world of talent there, but he looks an absolute mile off. We bought the missing piece of Jurgenās midfield jigsaw and he turned out to be from a completely different puzzle.
The only way I can really excuse his first half was that Gini and Fab werenāt that much better. For Keita though, he has nothing in the bank compared to them. He needed to show something last night, and ended up getting hooked before half time.
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Great players are defined in these crucial, knife-edged games against top opposition. Similarly, not good enough players are found out in this kind of games.
Time to get rid, heās not good enough. I think that Klopp knows this now. And thatās without talking about his utterly horrible fitness record.
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I cant say whether heās not good enough but to me he simply didnāt turn up last night.
To my mind thereās something not right upstairs. This is not the player I saw in the clips from his days with Leipzig. He was even starting brawls with his own team mates there. Here heās like Bambi.
But I dont want him to be a scape goat for what was equally shocking performances from the front 3, Gini, Fabinho, TAA and Robertson. The central defenders escape my wrath purely because they had nowhere to hide. They were in the firing line all night.
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Such behaviour is totally abhorrent and unacceptable.
I would hope that no true Liverpool fan would ever sink so low.
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They arenāt Liverpool fans. Gutter cunts.
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TAW did an interesting piece on him a few months back where they said when they bought him he was exactly what this team needed but because we had to wait a year, the team style change and he has never really fitted since he arrived.
But apart from 10 mins here and there he hasnt really done much for us.
He needs a move.
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Idiots are idiots. The positive thing is this is now no longer ignored.
From my younger days many many years ago to now, the zeitgeist of racism has come a long way in a positive direction. In my youth, though no social media of course, these things wouldāve been par for the course.
Nowadays the vast majority will condemn this, and thatās a good thing.
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WTF is wrong with people?
Humans are disgusting.
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Whatās happened?
Youāre right. Too many individuals being scapegoated for what was a collective car crash of a performance from the whole team. One of the worst in Europe since the days when Roy Evansā teams were being mauled by the likes of Strasbourg and PSG (pre-petrodollars).
Keita has some excuse in that he just hasnāt played, which makes JKās decision to pick him in such a key game hard to understand. None of the others have that excuse and they were all terrible. We will end up making a big loss on Keita. One of the less inspired purchases of the JK era. At times he has looked OK but his constant injuries mean he has no chance of getting any rhythm going and I think the price tag has weighed heavily on him.
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