Just thinking back to Tom Werner and his obsession with offensive play that has me wondering if this is partly why we don't seem to bother with defence ?. Is it part of Jurgens mandate to achieve this because its the direction the owners want us to go in ?.
He is very involved in his baseball teams so he is bound to be involved with us as well. If you do a google on him you will see an interview every year where he bemoans the Sox's offense and in this particular interview he vows to put it right by using freebies even though they have money.
http://www.espn.co.uk/boston/mlb/story/ ... ree-agencyPersonally my own opinion is that Jurgen was sought out to finish off the work Brendan began. Since he has come in he has signed very little and least of all addressed the defence which I find unbelievable considering the man spent his career as a defender. All we look to sign is attacking players and all very similar in that they are unproven and overated but yet we are still persisting with them. The decisions don't make sense along with the refusal to balance or strengthen the team in the right areas.
At Dortmund they were a much better balanced side with a mean defence, Pacy midfield and always a top striker so its like Jurgen abandoned all his philosophies when he got this job. Its his 3rd season now and there was still 7 players lining up from Rodgers time in yesterdays game.
Jurgen is at the helm and therefore in the firing line and some of it deserved but its the policies of the owners that has us where we are. They led us down a path before the summer with all the hype about lining up players and having a war chest but in the end we got more excuses and shenanigans. A return to the Cl and we bought 1 player along with a kid who never played in the league before and to top that pearler off they sent out a lad that did. Robertson can't get a game and then we made a fool of ourselves by spending that kind of money on Ox with a year left on his contract on the last day in what has to be described as a pure panic buy. It goes against everything they ever said because he isn't value for money, Not a quality player and unable to even break into the starting 11.
Did we focus on offense this year and neglect our defence ? I say yes but the question remains on why we did
As I said I cannot believe Klopp neglected everything he knows about the game and still had the stupidity to talk about challenging for a league when every single fan out there knows we haven't a hope because of the summer business.
Klopp was never brought here to be given full reign
He is here to run the club in line with the owners policies and its no wonder its beginning to crumble around him.
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 2:02 pm