Red Rum » Sun Jul 07, 2019 5:48 pm wrote:Nobody's panicking. I'm just saying we are just a little bit short in terms of squad quality to pip City to the title.
We got 97 points yes, but we scraped a lot of results last season by the odd goal, we weren't spanking teams 4/5 nil.
There's always room for improvement.
Red Rum » Thu Jul 04, 2019 7:22 pm wrote:City have signed Rodri for £62.5m.
where is our signings???? we NEED at least TWO IMO. Anyone one who thinks that we don't need any signings at all is deluded, we are behind City in terms of midfield quality, creativity and depth/cover.
The OX is back great, but ALL of Wjnaldum, Fabinho, Keita, Milner, Henderson etc are way too defensive and not enough creativity. Lallana is spent, that just leaves the OX. This is the reason we drew too many games last season.
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We looked flat in midfield many times last season and Klopp needs to address this.
Red Rum » Sun Jul 07, 2019 4:48 pm wrote:Nobody's panicking. I'm just saying we are just a little bit short in terms of squad quality to pip City to the title.
We got 97 points yes, but we scraped a lot of results last season by the odd goal, we weren't spanking teams 4/5 nil.
There's always room for improvement.
Lallana in Pyjamas » Sun Jul 07, 2019 5:56 pm wrote:Seriously guys - we won the games , we had all manner of wins - smashed some , won close games , sneaked a last minute winners
No team is “the finished article” - it’s amazing how many run down our team and the achievements last season as if it allows them to back up their opinion.
ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Sun Jul 07, 2019 10:38 pm wrote:Lallana in Pyjamas » Sun Jul 07, 2019 5:56 pm wrote:Seriously guys - we won the games , we had all manner of wins - smashed some , won close games , sneaked a last minute winners
No team is “the finished article” - it’s amazing how many run down our team and the achievements last season as if it allows them to back up their opinion.
Come on Benny, it's obvious that we haven't got the ability to put teams under the cosh like City do, that's not denigrating what we did last year, that's just pointing out that there is room there for us to improve.
We should not be resting on our laurels thinking we are the finished article, every summer we should always be trying to be a better team than we were the season before.
Wanting a club of our stature to sign a couple of players is not asking a lot. We've been doing it every year since 1892 why not now?
Reg » Mon Jul 08, 2019 6:51 am wrote:What concerns me is not that we didn't play well last season obviously, but that we did it with no margin of error. I don't expect to bring in Mbappe or Demembele, ie major glamour signing, I just want players capable of rotating without loss of quality. Y'know, like Dirk, Yossi etc.. seamless switches.
Reg » Mon Jul 08, 2019 7:51 am wrote:What concerns me is not that we didn't play well last season obviously, but that we did it with no margin of error. I don't expect to bring in Mbappe or Demembele, ie major glamour signing, I just want players capable of rotating without loss of quality. Y'know, like Dirk, Yossi etc.. seamless switches.
Lallana in Pyjamas » Mon Jul 08, 2019 4:39 am wrote:ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Sun Jul 07, 2019 10:38 pm wrote:Lallana in Pyjamas » Sun Jul 07, 2019 5:56 pm wrote:Seriously guys - we won the games , we had all manner of wins - smashed some , won close games , sneaked a last minute winners
No team is “the finished article” - it’s amazing how many run down our team and the achievements last season as if it allows them to back up their opinion.
Come on Benny, it's obvious that we haven't got the ability to put teams under the cosh like City do, that's not denigrating what we did last year, that's just pointing out that there is room there for us to improve.
We should not be resting on our laurels thinking we are the finished article, every summer we should always be trying to be a better team than we were the season before.
Wanting a club of our stature to sign a couple of players is not asking a lot. We've been doing it every year since 1892 why not now?
1. We put plenty of teams under the cosh last season
2. There is always room to improve for every team but improving doesn’t automatically mean buying players
3. The club will sign players - 1 has already been bought another on the way and there is 7 weeks left to bring more in
Penguins » Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:52 pm wrote:I disagree. No way we get 97 pts again with this squad. Everton, Newcastle, Spurs etc were all games that we got very lucky in.
Sure, good teams have luck, but normally you'd drop points in those kinds of games.
We have no depth at forward position. If Mane or Salah gets injured we're *****. Shaq is the only replacement we got. Origi has no chance in hell to play that role.
And no, Brewster will not do it either...
We had so few injuries last season which saved us, don't expect that again.
ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Mon Jul 08, 2019 1:32 pm wrote:
Oh come on Ben, stop being obtuse, I never said that we didn't put teams under the cosh last season, I said that we don't put teams under the cosh like City do. City are very rarely put on the back foot, as I said even in games where they drop points they tend to dominate the game and create chance after chance, they just don't put their chances away and fall for a sucker punch.
There were plenty of games last season where we made heavy weather of it, the 2 games against Leicester for a start, the game at West Ham was another etc.
Again I'm not trying to denigrate what we did last year I'm just trying to point out that there is room for us to improve.
this time last summer the noise was that we won’t be signing a new GK - guess what happened , maybe don’t listen to noise and wait for the next 7 weeks and see what happens- Klopp has just got back from his holidayYou say we are going to sign players but all the noises coming out of the club suggests that we are not, I won't even count that Dutch lad because unless he is the second coming of Franz Beckenbauer he won't be ready to be a regular starter for the first team until he is at least 20/21 and that's still young for a CB at a top club.
People turn their noses up at marquee type signings but look at the effect the likes of Virgil and Alisson have had on the team, I freely admit I was one of the staunchest defenders of the likes of Skrtel and Sakho but it's only when you get a top class player and see what they do week in week out that you realise what you have been missing.
At the risk of repeating myself, we are not the finished article, we can improve and we should be trying to improve. In a division like the prem where cash sloshes about standing still is effectively going backwards.
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