Hey! I thought Utd had a monopoly on crisis mismanagement & ill conceived recruitment. Get off our turf.
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Liverpool, welcome to our decent into madnessā¦
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Have to agree with the Guardian, too many square pegs, too big a change and all with a sick note in their back pocket. Money appears to be the only motivation for some players, what happened to the days when you could snap a player in half and like a stick of rock see lfc running through them, I donāt see any of that in the new signings and some of the old guard have become jaded. Disappointing times.
Iām sure you will smoke us on Sunday and all will be well. 
That will go down so well with some of the people on here.
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Roy H was sacked on 8th Jan after arriving in the previous July, and this is beginning to have a similar feel of clueless rabbit in headlights, i hope they all prove me wrong, but if not I suspect the beginning of the next transfer window will likely be the decision point
In AS defence, Isak has been a dead weight to date, Kirkez is out of his depth, MacAlister looks totally out if sorts, VVD and Salah are both playing as bad as I can recall, CB isnt fit enough to play often enough, and Frimpong is no CB or TAA, CG is no Diaz, and nobody is Jota, as for Konateā¦ where is Quansah when we need him, or even Nat Philips ffs 
DS and HE currently being massively let down.
Cluster.fuck
But whatever the issues, GS is never the answer
This post needs more acronyms.
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Money canāt buy you love
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Trent, Jota and Diaz gone from regular starters. Two of those you canāt do much about, one more debatable.
Quansah and Elliott gone from the bench, squad players. Manager lukewarm on both and one chose to go in a bid to start more.
A combination of Bradley and Frimpong are supposed to cover the unique and irreplaceable Trent. (Both injured)
A combination of Gapko, Ekiteke and Wirtz to cover Diaz left slot. (Two of three now injured).
A combination of Ekiteke and Isak are supposed to cover the Jota slot. (One now injured, one lacking match fitness).
Elliott is supposed to be covered by a combinaton of Wirtz, Frimpong and the Rio lad off the bench. (Two of those injured).
Quansah is replaced like for like by Leoni (injured).
Youāve also got Gomez (injured a lot) and whether he should have been replaced, but thatās more change.
On top of that youāve got four of the key of Kloppās first team still on board, - but all are 32+. Supposed long term replacements for Alisson and Robertson have already been bought in.
But in the next year you will probably need at least two centre halves and a right sided attacker.
The area that was neglected in the summer and the previous summer was in midfield. I thought as Slot was coming in, Liverpool looked light for cover in midfield. There are four who are good for 3 spaces, so if 1 or 2 go down injured, youāve got an issue. Plus this is an area where you need legs and need to rotate. We were in for Zubamendi last year, but curiously quiet this summer, despite Slot admitting the midfield had started too many games and that it showed towards end of last season.
Apart from the injury/ fitness crisis highlighted above, and Liverpool have one right now, but nobody is talking about it, I think the midfield is where the mistake really lies. The intensity of press from the foward players has dropped for a host of reasons, - an ageing Salah, Ekiteke working it all out, Isak unfit, Wirtz adjusting, Gapko losing a bit of form, - that puts more onus on already jaded and now grieving midfield to work even harder.
Throw in Van Dijk and Konate being a bit lethargic and down on their physical levels and there is your perfect storm.
I think the summer transfer stuff is overblown. I am not sure realistically what could have been done differently (apart from picking different players, but a case for all of them can be made). Iād have like to have seen an athletic all action midfielder, who could screen and protect the back four brought in.
As for avoiding all of this, it basically boils down to an argument over what more you think could have been done to keep Diaz and the extent to which he was already of the door due to his own volition. I donāt know the answer to that.
But the point is the summer was always going to be a summer of change and most of it was unavoidable. Jota died. We remind the team of this on minute 20 of every game. His empty space in the dressing room is still there.
I thought last year would be the ātransitionā year. Turns out itās this year.
Konate can get in the bin though.
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Excellent post.
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@cobbler 3 points for you today I think and hopefully the last game for Cleverly.
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some reason best reason
From 0-2 down that was some comeback!
Next two games away to Lāpool & M City almost look like free hits now.
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It certainly will be against us 
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The Devon duo looking dodgy for them both to go down
We are fucking shocking
haha christ