To be fair, something we also must not forget, keeping a team/squad (not everyone of course, read: Gini, Mane) together also costs money.
But yeah, changing from a successful Liverpool side to a new successful (hopefully) Liverpool side is something totally new for them as owners and for us fans (apart from the older generation that have witnessed, what, at least the mid/end 80’s?).
There are certain moves that will hurt, split opinion, be unpopular, etc. It’s the reality I feel, just something we’re not used to. And I imagine it’s not smooth all the time. Especially the league we’re in the the rivals we have. Remember United how they used to do it under Ferguson, although they were perhaps in a more powerful situation than us.
Fact is, there is how we replace bits and pieces of this team, but also in the mean time how we still use everything we have on our hands. And it feels like our base which was created for this season, wasn’t great. Plus, maybe not signing a certain midfielder in past windows, became a problem. Especially with the age bracket of our CM’s, our main ones being slowly “old”, having a Keita in between who we just can’t count on being available as much and then a bunch of inexperienced talents.
No and that’s where some of the blame lies with Klopp and his staff, for not identifying we needed a midfielder sooner.
But we did lose 3 forwards in the summer…Bobby entering the last 12 months (now 6) of his contract and Mo hitting 30…given we had Diaz and Jota already we still needed reconstruction in that area too.
Fair point, but why do we keep buying left sided attackers when we need cover for Mo? It hard to make sense of any of it. I do know we desperately need help in midfield and Salah will get the most bang for the buck witjout depleting depth (except on the right that is).
Even then, the transition from the Beckham led side to the Ronaldo one saw them go 3 years without a title and even dropped out of the top 2 for two consecutive years for the first time since their first title of that era. The first time the league produced 2 additional teams who could compete with them the second they suffered a blip they fell behind both.
Gakpo makes sense as you say, if we are going 4231, or we know we’re losing Bobby and we definitely have (or will soon have) enough money for midfielders.
Young Masch, just turned 20 few months ago. Any scouts out there in the south American contingent? Or we waiting until they move to Benfica/Porto before picking them up for 10x the price?
Enzo has played half a season in Portugal and would be a massive risk at £120m. I say verging on irresponsible to put that kind of money down.
Caicedo and Jude (especially) have both got huge experience of high level European football, despite their young ages. They would be slotting straight into the first team.
Pizarro would be a project. With players from South America it’s not just on the pitch - they need to settle off it, especially at such a young age.
I’m sure he is a good young player who will go on to have a good career. I’d prefer him to make the move to Spain/Portugal to see if he can make that step up. I’m happy that we have Bajcetic who is our ‘project’ DM.
