damn right. I'm guessing every single MU player voted for him, knowing that was the only way a MU player had a hope of getting in.
Apparently David Moores died overnight? 📰{NEWS}📰RIP, David Moores #LFC https://t.co/dzVbEc24It— Empire of the Kop (@empireofthekop) July 22, 2022 RIP...
the guardian's piece on LFC for this season ... https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/aug/01/premier-league-2022-23-preview-no-12-liverpool
weird that there's so much instability in this aspect of the club ..... https://www.thisisanfield.com/2022/...oss-of-key-staff-member-on-eve-of-new-season/ Liverpool have announced the departure of club doctor Jim Moxon, who has been an integral member of the first team staff since 2020. The Reds’ medical department has seen constant tweaks and changes over the last few years, with the club continually aiming to minimise the risk of injury for their players. New appointments have been made this summer with the creation of a new role, with Frigyes Vanden Auweele appointed as the new head of osteopathy, while Dr Andreas Schlumberger was handed new responsibilities. Schlumberger now assumes the role of head of medicine and fitness, meaning he is in charge of both departments from this season. But he is now to be without the expertise of Moxon, who has wished the club well for the season ahead after Liverpool announced his departure, which appears to be effective immediately.
Interesting piece. I may be a party of one but I’ve never been a committed fan of Mane’ anymore than I ever felt he was fully committed to Liverpool. Something about his body language and almost childlike reactions to happenings on the pitch or when Klopp has pulled him early. Can’t put my finger on it but it never felt right.
Interesting piece from the Guardian : https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...catching-up-with-this-magnificent-red-machine The closest parallel here is with Dortmund’s 2014-15 campaign, where a poor start, a World Cup-truncated pre-season, the departure of a star forward (Robert Lewandowski) and an autumn injury crisis sent Klopp’s side into a tailspin from which they could not extricate themselves. “Our football makes no sense,” Klopp moaned after a meek 2-1 defeat at Köln, and yet even as Dortmund went into freefall there was still little appetite for a change. After all, Klopp had enthusiastically signed a contract extension only the previous season. There were new forwards such as Ciro Immobile and Adrián Ramos who needed time to bed in. The footballing message remained the same. In retrospect, perhaps this became part of the problem. No team as good as Liverpool can ever be truly “worked out”. What has changed is form and execution, confidence and sharpness, the little one-percenters that make all the difference when you are playing a high-energy, high-wire style of football. And the early evidence of this season suggests that on the simple measures of running, challenging and creating, Liverpool have sharply regressed. Not only that, but in many cases these are an acceleration of trends that were already becoming evident last season. Pressures in the final third have dropped from 45 to 36. Carries into the final third have dropped from 18 to 12. Even fouls – a measure of the aggression and prejudice with which Liverpool sought to stop you playing – have dropped 25% from last season. And yet Liverpool are seeing more of the ball: 70%, compared with 62-63% in each of the last four seasons. All over the pitch, and indeed off it, Liverpool have traded safety for risk, entrenchment for engagement, conservatism for enterprise. Much has been made of the fact that Liverpool have barely made a misstep in the transfer market over the last few seasons. Which is a lot easier, of course, for as long as your strategy is so rigid and risk-averse that you barely make a step at all. Perhaps the story of this Liverpool team is one that hit unimaginable peaks but has since failed to move forward, that haven’t really had the time to move forward, that haven’t had the time to do very much at all except keep the engine running, keep the lights on, keep turning up every three days. Were this a smaller or a bigger club, Klopp might have had greater scope for reinvention: time to implement new ideas, time (and money) to refresh the squad, perhaps simply time to whisk everyone off to some gladed idyll and shoot the breeze in front of a roaring campfire. But here and now, this is all there is: a puffing red engine operating at the very limits of its capacity.
We do need a midfielder (or two) but much of the criticism in that piece should be tempered by the fact that this side is missing 10 players at the moment so obviously not likely to perform at its peak level.
I agree and we have actually been adding to side unlike in Germany where Klopp was continually being burgled by Bayern. Also, unlike earlier in preseason, he’s coming round to the idea it’s pointless claiming to have 9 midfielders in the squad if you can’t really rely on them to be available.
https://www.thisisanfield.com/2022/...sley-watson-in-liverpools-exclusive-800-club/ Klopp joins the 800 club at Anfield.
Carra calls out Danny Murphy's clickbait! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...l-team-mate-Danny-Murphys-spat-transfers.html
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...d-five-liverpool-fans-on-the-reds-rocky-start ‘The whole system has failed’: five Liverpool fans on the Reds’ rocky start Jürgen Klopp’s men head to Arsenal on Sunday off the pace in the title race and performing poorly – we ask supporters why that is and what needs to be done for them to get back on track
The supporters know. I would take them over Klopp and staff every day of the week, and twice on Sunday's (depending on who we are playing).
LOL. you're joking, riight? put any 5 supporters together and ask them to pick a team and the fistfights would break out in about 3 minutes.
Of course I'm joking. I wouldn't take anyone over Klopp and team. They have basically earned unlimited free passes. they know they have a job to do to fix this and integrate new players - and I would back them to do it.
I think that sometimes the coaches can't see the forest for the trees as the old saying goes. We're in a bit of a fix mostly down to inadequate planning imo and now the guys responsible are the ones who will have to dig us out.