If we look at things objectively - which isn't easy after a result and performance like this - there are three key points that need stating:
1) The defence and goalkeepers are not good enough. Moreno has improved a bit and Matip occasionally plays like someone who knows what he is meant to be doing but there are too many others in that back 5 who routinely make individual errors that leak goals.
2) The players in the back five have been together for over a year now. We only added one defender in the Summer who has hardly played. The players who played today have been at the club for some time. Yet they still make the same basic errors. To me, this reflects on the coaching staff. The coaching staff work with them in training day in day out and should be makng them better players. They aren't. If anything, under the current coaching staff setup they seem to be getting worse.
3) Despite making so many individual errors last season and it being so clear that we need better players in those positions we sold Sakho, a France international Centre-back, and Lucas, a Brazil international midfielder who could play at Centre-back. This needs to be questioned because we let those guys go on an assumption that we would get Keita and Van Dijk. We got neither and are now even worse off defensively.
So, however you look at things, it is pretty bleak. The players are piss poor and have been for some time, the coaching staff are worryingly ineffective and seem to be doing absolutely nothing constructive with the players in training, and the transfer business of the club is - at best - naive, and - at worst - plain stupid. The one person who has a hand in all of these things is Klopp. I can see why Klopp pulled Lovren off after 30 mins today - Lovren was not playing well and Klopp was probably frustrated. But what Klopp was doing was blaming Lovren for that defensive fiasco and I don't agree with him on that. It's not Lovren's fault we sold Sakho, it's not Lovren's fault that the VVD deal fell through because Klopp was dumb enough to send him coaching videos while he was still a Southampton player, it's not Lovren's fault that our coaching staff are useless t*ats who seem to know nothing about football ... it's Klopp's fault. If Klopp wants to blame anyone for todays mess then he needs to go and find a mirror.
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