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Pepe made interesting things happen. Willian, despite getting an assist, really brought nothing to the table, again. Please just abandoned the Willian experiment, and if necessary, just play Pepe.
 
The South American World Cup qualifiers due to be played in late March have all been cancelled.

Let’s hope other internationals are binned as well.
 
Who would of thought that with them coming into the season as champions
 

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Years ago Wigan won the cup and got relegated. Most of their fans couldn’t careless about the relegation. They‘d had their premiership fairytale amd the cup was cherry On top of the cake.

A genuine question to the Liverpool fans.

A lot is made of Klopp running players into the ground. Imo realistically with more rotation over the last 3 years, you could have possibly Still won the CL and would yet again be in the CL places, but probably at the expense of last seasons title.

if you go back to struggling to break into top 4 over the next few years. Was the title worth it? I’m pretty sure the answer to that would be yes form the fans, but what about the owners. Will they lose faith with klopp if you continue the free fall this season?
 
Nobody talking about the Liverpool game?

Surprised that goal stood tbh.. I mean the way he made contacted with Salah was enough for him to go down eh?
What’s he doing there in the first place?
When they have a corner he should be on the halfway line ,make them mark him he is useless on the edge of the box.
the lack of creativity from us in midfield shocking ,and it’s like Burtons window up front.
Fulham totally deserved to win they were very good.
 
What’s he doing there in the first place?
When they have a corner he should be on the halfway line ,make them mark him he is useless on the edge of the box.
the lack of creativity from us in midfield shocking ,and it’s like Burtons window up front.
Fulham totally deserved to win they were very good.

I was totally impressed with Fulham. Chasing down everything. Could have scored more. I hope the stay up
 
If I were a Liverpool fan I'd be so disappointed at their attitude - clearly given up and should be embarrassed.
I called it a couple of months ago when Klopp was not backed in getting a decent centre half, that Liverpool may not qualify the for the champs league. It now looks like Europe could be a struggle. That said it may be a blessing playing nigh on 10 less games a season.
My concern is this. Klopp has said that not qualifying for champs league does not mean players will leave. But not qualifying for Europe is a different matter, esp when the papers are already mentioning players that will replace Salah. Another concern, All players values have gone down. So what Salah and others were worth last season is no where near this season.
I thought that performance was shocking and if I was a Liverpool fan I would be disgusted And that’s putting it mildly. It looked like they did not want to play for Klopp and that for me is unforgivable.
 
Years ago Wigan won the cup and got relegated. Most of their fans couldn’t careless about the relegation. They‘d had their premiership fairytale amd the cup was cherry On top of the cake.

A genuine question to the Liverpool fans.

A lot is made of Klopp running players into the ground. Imo realistically with more rotation over the last 3 years, you could have possibly Still won the CL and would yet again be in the CL places, but probably at the expense of last seasons title.

if you go back to struggling to break into top 4 over the next few years. Was the title worth it? I’m pretty sure the answer to that would be yes form the fans, but what about the owners. Will they lose faith with klopp if you continue the free fall this season?

I believe that the owners and most fans won’t make any judgments based on this season alone - there is a lot of context to it in regards the level of injuries being seen by the team over the past 6 months starting with that tackle on VVD

There was a graphic where if you add in all the games missed by Liverpool players it’s over 230 , the team below was Leicester with 120 I think it was

A lot of it comes back to the injuries and no team in the league would be able to cope with their spine being out for as long as they have

They got into a rut over xmas and it’s been hard to drag themselves out of it, nothing is going right at the moment but it’s certainly not time to throw the Bath water out

They will come again and will a full squad will challenge again for both the title and CL

I’m pretty confident we aren’t going to go back to “struggling to break top 4” - all players available the team is as strong as Citys

The media etc will overreact but I have no doubt the owners won’t react
 
Years ago Wigan won the cup and got relegated. Most of their fans couldn’t careless about the relegation. They‘d had their premiership fairytale amd the cup was cherry On top of the cake.

A genuine question to the Liverpool fans.

A lot is made of Klopp running players into the ground. Imo realistically with more rotation over the last 3 years, you could have possibly Still won the CL and would yet again be in the CL places, but probably at the expense of last seasons title.

if you go back to struggling to break into top 4 over the next few years. Was the title worth it? I’m pretty sure the answer to that would be yes form the fans, but what about the owners. Will they lose faith with klopp if you continue the free fall this season?
He dismantled the midfield to cover the injuries.
So 2/3 rds of the team was average at best.
Strikers are off form so all below average lately.
He should have played the two CBS that played today from the start , instead he put two midfield players who are no better at CB than the lads who played today.
But we missed them in midfield massively.
Individual mistakes have hurt us as well.
You don’t get time to control the ball on the edge of the box like Salah did today ,just get rid
But lack of quality is evident in the squad.
First 11 brilliant ,the rest so so.
Winning the title yes it was worth it, and sure we will be ok when all players are back fit.
 
I believe that the owners and most fans won’t make any judgments based on this season alone - there is a lot of context to it in regards the level of injuries being seen by the team over the past 6 months starting with that tackle on VVD

There was a graphic where if you add in all the games missed by Liverpool players it’s over 230 , the team below was Leicester with 120 I think it was

A lot of it comes back to the injuries and no team in the league would be able to cope with their spine being out for as long as they have

They got into a rut over xmas and it’s been hard to drag themselves out of it, nothing is going right at the moment but it’s certainly not time to throw the Bath water out

They will come again and will a full squad will challenge again for both the title and CL

I’m pretty confident we aren’t going to go back to “struggling to break top 4” - all players available the team is as strong as Citys

The media etc will overreact but I have no doubt the owners won’t react

I agree there has been over reactions, and that the injuries sustained have played a big part. I do think it’s become a crux though.

6 homes games in A row isn’t it? imo something needs to be said in the dressing room. almost like they’ve accepted the season is over.

Imo Europa next season is a nightmare. The first 11 is still right up there, but the squad is weak and Thursday Sunday will stretch it further imo.
 
One thing I forgot to mention was re VVD, let’s hope he returns being the player he was. He suffered a massive injury and a lot of players do not return being the players they once were. An 80% VVD is miles better than what they have at the moment.
 
I agree there has been over reactions, and that the injuries sustained have played a big part. I do think it’s become a crux though.

6 homes games in A row isn’t it? imo something needs to be said in the dressing room. almost like they’ve accepted the season is over.

Imo Europa next season is a nightmare. The first 11 is still right up there, but the squad is weak and Thursday Sunday will stretch it further imo.

There were will be things being said but right now the ball just isn’t bouncing right and there maybe needs that little bit of fortune , a scrappy goal , lucky bounce here but right now it’s just not going that way - confidence is very low right now and it’s going to be a stumble until the end of the season

The squad isn’t as weak as people suggest - we haven’t played the first choice back 4 for 6 months , first choice midfield and the front three have lost their fluidity when Jota was injured

Even with all those injuries we are still in with a chance of top 4 and I would suspect any other club who loses the same level of players would be bottom half
 
One thing I forgot to mention was re VVD, let’s hope he returns being the player he was. He suffered a massive injury and a lot of players do not return being the players they once were. An 80% VVD is miles better than what they have at the moment.

We had it with lanzini, playing well, called up for his country, Messi rated him highly

Horrible injury

Can't even get a full game anymore
 
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