Because I suspect Klopp still doesn't fully understand the Premier League. He wants to focus on development through the training ground but you simply do not have enough time to do that in our league. It's why we tend to buy more finished product players over here than they do in other countries. Until he learns this he'll continue to fail.
You can rest assured he does fully understand the Premier League. Just because the majority of the pundits, supporters and journalists think the Premier League is the best league in the world and that things can only be done in one way, the right way, the English way, doesn't mean Klopp has to change his methods or the way he sees the game.
The thing I put in bold is the exact thing that is wrong with the Premier League and the exact reason why England is miles behind countries like Spain and Germany where both managers and players are allowed the time to develop and make mistakes without being instantly written off by the media. That's a concern for the whole PL and every manager out there. We should be praising Klopp (and other managers that do) that he is trying to develop young British players and giving them plenty of opportunities to improve. Talented youngsters like Woodburn, Solanke, Trent and Gomez wouldn't be given a chance otherwise. Yes they'll make mistakes and I've found myself facepalming myself on numerious occasions when watching Gomez and Trent defend, but I don't care if they make mistakes. They're young, they will improve. I'd rather see our youngsters make mistakes than see us bring in the next unknown player for £30 million.
It's not only youngsters, just players in general are written off so easily. Klopp has improved plenty of players in his time with us. Prime examples being Moreno and Lallana.
That's precisely the issue. The very notion that there wasn't someone available out there who could improve upon what we have, a notion that is completely and utterly ridiculous. Everyone, Journalists, Pundits, Supporters all said going into this season with what we had would come back to haunt us. Klopp said "No, what we have is great, it's fantastic, it'll get us through the season no problem". We didn't even get past the first game before it came back to haunt us, and rather than spend forty million quid on a half decent center back, someone who could at the very least be an upgraded third choice over Klavan, we not only spent it on a utility midfielder, the last type of player this squad needed, we also got rid of an above average defender and arguably the best we had in the squad. So not only did Klopp not strengthen a key area and the biggest weakness in the squad, he actually weakened it.
Either I misunderstand your post or you have completely missed the point I made. Wether he spent the £40 million on A-OX or not doesn't matter. Even if we hadn't spent it on A-OX, we still wouldn't have spend it on a CB. The refusal / failure / whatever you want to call it by Klopp to sign a CB, has nothing to do with him deciding he needed cover in multiple positions on the pitch. The fact you think he is the last player we needed, doesn't matter. Both are completely seperate issues. In my opinion he'll prove to be very useful come winter when we have a ton of games to play and when he'll be a lot more familiar with the tactics and team dynamic.
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