ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Sun Mar 08, 2020 6:51 pm wrote:Only 1 team has managed to defend the prem title since the mid noughties and that was moneybags City. Back to back prem titles is very difficult to do and imo without significant recruitment in the summer we haven’t got the squad to do it.
We’ve been very lucky with injuries to our front 3 over the past couple of years.
electrum » Sun Mar 08, 2020 7:07 pm wrote:Klopp has learned something you clearly haven't - buying the "right players" is critical even at a premium.
Would we be anywhere near winning the league without a GK at 70M and a Defender at 75m and a top DM and AM at 40M each?
We would not even be top 4 and you know it,
So Professor , You can guarantee (seeing as you only know how to make absolute statements rather than discuss rationally) that Williams, Hoever et al are ready to play in the PL on a regular basis next year? Deluded isn't the word for you.
Are City , United, Chelsea et al going to be turning to their youth teams to make up a 20-40 point gap on us? Again, deluded doesn't quite cut it. You seem to think that we will win the league again by simply doing the same things. Tell me how many seasons has Klopp done the same thing in terms of style of play and personnel since he got here? ZERO, we have been honed into a machine by making tweaks and changes all over the pitch.Even our gegenpressing (Klopps hallmark) has been adapted to the PL as and when needed.
He will know he has to evolve and make it ever more difficult for the opposition to "be wise to us". He will not get stuck in a more of the same will do it as no-one else will improve- unlike you.
electrum » Sun Mar 08, 2020 8:21 pm wrote:So tell us who these wonderful gems are at 20m that will give us zero drop off in quality (or very little) coming off the bench?
The market has moved on - to have subs that cost 50m will be the norm if you want to compete with Abu Dhabi.Keita is regularly on the bench for us and he is not quite the quality we need (or has not demonstrated it yet at least)
Fabinho and Keita were immediate starters? Selective memory loss and change of subject seem to be your speciality.
As an example you refer to only RObbo and TAA when your original comment included Jones and Elliot too.
You didn't answer my questions about how many seasons Klopp left things unchanged regarding players and playing style...
Comparing Dortmund with us is meaningless. The competition here is brutal compared to the German league so let's leave that one alone shall we.
The FACT is that we need to improve our squad depth and quality. If we don't our rivals will catch and eventually overtake us- this is the reality of the PL
Klopp changed his mentality by breaking records in the transfer market twice in a few weeks...completely opposite to what he had said about spending big money the season before. So stop saying he hasn't / won't have a change of mentality- if he hadn't we would be struggling for 4th.
ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Sun Mar 08, 2020 9:29 pm wrote:Relying on 11 players to stay fit doesn’t look the best strategy to me.
Lallana in Pyjamas » Sun Mar 08, 2020 9:33 pm wrote:ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Sun Mar 08, 2020 9:29 pm wrote:Relying on 11 players to stay fit doesn’t look the best strategy to me.
He doesn’t though - he has rotated plenty of times throughout the year - the full backs stay the same , VVD and then the front three but players like Ox , Matip , Lovren , Milner , Adrian , Origi , Shaqiri , Jones , Lallana have come in when needed
Suspect Lovren , Lallana and maybe Origi will leave - Curtis Jones will fill the gap left by Lallana , Lovren filled by Williams/Hoever but will look to bring in someone to replace Origi - Werner it seems Is the hot topic
ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Sun Mar 08, 2020 11:41 pm wrote:Lallana in Pyjamas » Sun Mar 08, 2020 9:33 pm wrote:ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Sun Mar 08, 2020 9:29 pm wrote:Relying on 11 players to stay fit doesn’t look the best strategy to me.
He doesn’t though - he has rotated plenty of times throughout the year - the full backs stay the same , VVD and then the front three but players like Ox , Matip , Lovren , Milner , Adrian , Origi , Shaqiri , Jones , Lallana have come in when needed
Suspect Lovren , Lallana and maybe Origi will leave - Curtis Jones will fill the gap left by Lallana , Lovren filled by Williams/Hoever but will look to bring in someone to replace Origi - Werner it seems Is the hot topic
IMO we need more strength in depth than Jones and Williams who are both incredibly inexperienced, big ask to be challenging for the title and CL if they are what’s on our bench, Williams hasn’t played a single minute of premier league football and Jones has 2 sub appearances to his name. Klopp himself says it’s a squad game these days not a team game so we’d be asking for trouble there imo. As for Origi moving on where are you getting that from? He only signed a new long term deal with us at the beginning of this season, I know contracts don’t mean much these days but I’d be surprised if we moved him on less than 12 months after he penned a new deal.
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