Yep he’s a good player but his time is broken up by injuries so he can’t get any rhythm (maybe too demanding a team in too physical a league) and recently that seems to have got to him psychologically as he doesn’t seem the player he was when he first arrived. I think his stock is still high and he’ll end up somewhere else where he can have a good career still.
I think the mental fragility is a derivative of the frequent injuries, kind of like Sturridge.
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I think he needs to room with Milly on away trips to put a bit of Yorkshire steel in him 
Dear Guinean FA,
You can’t call him up if we make FIFA so mad they ban all our players.
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Wicked
“Naby trains really well, I have to say. Like a lot of other players, he looks really good in training but this year now we need stability,” Klopp told reporters.
“We will make changes from time to time but it’s not like we can make seven or eight changes and say ‘maybe we can win it like this’.
“The long-term future of Naby Keita, from my point of view, is here.”
“It’s a lot of things this year, was really tricky and we’ve had to change so often. Then you have to try to go for stability and that’s what we needed,” Klopp explained on how he has needed to balance his team.
“For example, Man United’s last line played, I think, the last 20 games together now and then you can make changes everywhere because you have a proper basis.
We never had that and then on top of that making two, three changes in midfield just doesn’t work out in football.
“People say ‘try it’, and I would try it, definitely, if it could be nearly sure that it could work out.
“But you need stability in a football team, other teams are just too good to make eight or nine changes.
“That hurt and hit a few players this year. Some of them were injured, coming back, took a while.”
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Can’t be much worse than it currently is, Jürgen.
Funny; I never took him for a conservative.
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Whenever a manager says a player trains we’ll I always think - well fucking start him then.
Fact is he doesn’t play him speaks volumes
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If only he had addressed why he doesn’t… 
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In football terms he is quite conservative.
This is poor from Naby’s agent. Maybe if Naby was available for an extended run, The Boss could use him in different situations.
Reports claim that Naby Keita, who has been linked with a move to Leicester City, will stay at Liverpool and fight for his place in Jurgen Klopp’s first team set up. However, Naby Keita’s agent has since come out and criticised Jurgen Klopp for playing his client in the wrong position.
Malick Kebe took to Twitter to air his grievances with the German manager.
“The day that Coach Klopp gets Naby Keita to play in his favorite role, you see what he will bring to Liverpool. He is a playmaker, not a scavenger. Good to hear, hi.”
Play him at LCM, not RCM.
First player and agent combo to find something to publicly start a fight with Klopp over on the run up to the transfer window now CL is looking less and less likely for next year. Not who I thought. But expect more to take this approach of picking a fight with Klopp in public. Will be only one result.
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Keita is not playing in any role at the moment because he’s always fucking injured!! The guy is a wage thief and if Klopp has seen these comments from his agent, he needs to tell him to find another club.
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I like Naby but he’s simply hurt too much.
I’d consider selling him for that reason alone.
I wonder why his agent doesn’t get angry when Keita returns injured/knackered from NT duties?
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I know it’s a hypothetical question but agents don’t get a percentage when a player plays for their country but do when they move clubs. There’s too much vested interest with agents so often you see players making moves that aren’t the best for them. So often that is down to the agent chasing their payday.
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Keita
2018-19: 1817 mins
2019-20: 1425 mins
2020-21: 714 mins 
Now just to put things in perspective, Milner
2018-19: 2836 mins
2019-20: 1708 mins
2020-21: 1737 mins
Fuck off Malick Kebe
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Edwards would literally be untouchable if he gets even 10% of his original fee. A complete waste of a talent, and at the end of the day is fucking over players like Wilson/Elliott, who could do just as well as sitting on the bench, or not delivering when given the chance.
An embarrassment to No 8, should seriously be stripped of this number.
I’m trying to think of a team that we can sucker into making a feasible offer.
Was so excited when we signed him, never been more disappointed.
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