Maybe, but it could also surely be a combination of the two. I.e. He thinks the squad should hold and be competative but that in an ideal wonder world, he would reinforce it more if enough cash had been available (then crash, injuries unplanned for fucks us). I don’t find that unlikely at all and find myself believing that.
But of course, it’s just assumptions.
How do you arrive at £51 million?
By forgetting the minus.
I think i mighr need talking down here folks but i have to get this off my chest…
Form of Trent and Virg.
Behind Mo, Trent and Virg are our next ‘Box Office’ players.
Mo’s contract saga was a fucking boil on the teams arse in my opinion.
Washing laundry in public and all that.
His form dipped considerably…and once it got sorted we’re all expecting the old Mo back…he’s not.
He’s not even close.
Urgh…im absolutely shite at getting my point across…
What im trying to say is…maybe a touch of the green eyed monster?
Are they (and possibly others) looking at him differently now and it effecting the team as a whole?
Just a thought…a little niggling one…
No other team has, that’s not my point. Excusing our performances based on too much / too little pre-season / scheduling is nonsense if we’re the only team affected.
I used this as quick referance and if it’s wrong then I apologice. Ranking the Premier League clubs by their overall net spend in 2022: Liverpool 11th, Leeds 17th
I googled and assumed it was okay, but perhaps it’s a bad source ?
Mind you that’s in and out player-wise I see, you can certainly look at net spend as what the club earns in real money and deduce from that, in which case of course our net spend is 5 mil and not 50 (as far as I understand).
Again, if I am operating with incorrect numbers, then please do arrest me.
Me as new owner. “Jurgen, would you like us to sign the 3 best midfielders in the world aged 25?”
Jurgen “Nah, I’m happy with a permanently crocked Naby, Jordan who’s age I’m ignoring and the fittest 37 year old on the planet”
Sorry mate, no way any manger in the world wouldn’t want the kitchen sink thrown at the team to improve it. Klopps’s a genius and he’s very good at politics.
The team are still in holiday mood
Saw additional comments from Klopp defending the high line where he’s pointing to the same thing…a high line isnt a problem, a high line is a problem is if you’re unable to get pressure on the ball.
Watch their goal right after half time. It’s poor from Virgil and Matip, the former is caught doing nothing and Matip gets into a bad position on the guy he as to be responsible. But the issue is with the guy who ultiately scores. He goes right through the middle of he midfield and no one does anything. Even Trent is starting right at him but is slow to respond and so is always playing catch up once he tries to react. We just have too much looking and not enough doing ATM
The high line was actually pretty good in the second once Matip was on and settled, In fact it was just the poor lines woman on that side that saw so many not get flagged. The halfway line was the worst of the lot.
That first half was the worst I’ve seen us defensively, I kind of felt for Alisson really I’ve had days when a defence has just crumbled in front of me.
I did note the automatic offside thing kicked in after 10 seconds on one, so that seems to have started well.
Our defenders atm are not reading the game and situations, they seem to be too programmed to play the high line, rather than covering/following the runners. It is as though we don’t have a leader at the back or in the team. Even at my playing level was that you could step up during a game until a player had his head up then you had to hold and cover.
This was also due to Thiago actually getting pressure on their midfielders so they couldn’t pick an easy pass or through ball
Yeah your probably right but it seemed better even before he stepped on.
With all due respect – and I completely agree that there is a lot we don’t know – it would be easier to give FSG the benefit of the doubt if we hadn’t been so depleted at CB just two years ago due to a lack of foresight. I was absolutely no Lovren fan, but letting him leave and not replacing him and hoping to work on three first team level center backs was questionable for me. Back then we scraped our way into the top four and since our CBs managed to stay mostly fit last season we had on all accounts a decent year even if it ended like a car crash. As such, the scrutiny that FSG was under when they were going for Kabak was forgotten. (He did the best he could, I don’t think anyone played super well in that team, but he certainly helped.)
Statistically, the freakish number of injuries in midfield that we have had is unexpected. No disputing that. Still, as much as injuries aren’t planned for, it’s not a great look for the money men when they have greatly inflated the value of the club on the back of an unbelievable manager yet have us in a place where we are playing a 37-year-old at CM and our best midfielder who is fit around 50% of the time is 31. Both of those things can be true in my opinion.
One thing that’s for certain – the margins between success and failure are very tight. When these things come off, you look great, but when they don’t, you get an egg on your face, and it’s omelettes for breakfast tomorrow.
Liverpool used to dominate teams physically, running distance, power and sprint speed and volume
This will be the 7th straight game they have been beaten, in all 3 metrics
Distance
High speed runs
Sprints
You are right he has got the 5 and the 1 in the wrong order it is actually 15million plus the 3.5m for the Arthur loan
Which member(s) of FSG exactly do you think are making decisions about squad composition, e.g. how many center backs or center midfielders to have, which to target in the market, when, etc.?
I think Henry is the money man but Gordon seems to be the go-between. I don’t know about their inner workings, I’m not saying I could do a better job, but it’s undeniable that people are going to look at the ownership (as much as they have done good for the club writ large) given how much they have benefited from managerial talent relative to how much they invested. It’s undeniable that Abu Dhabi have had their hands on the scales, but it is a bit frustrating when they are just getting over the line ahead of us in two seasons (we had to obliterate them to slay them once) and you look at what they’ve invested in their squad relative to ours. Not saying that FSG have full control over that, but I think it’s reasonable that fans are going to question whether they’ve done enough.