IN fairness I never expected a treble, certainly not this season, but I do think a manager without a single trophy to his name yet might hedge his bets and focus a little bit more on the domestic cups. We now HAVE to win the Prem or CL otherwise its yet another season without any honours.
I still think we can win the league but we now must win against Brighton, lose that game and the wheels could really start to come off on this season.
If he put focus on the FA Cup and we ended up missing out on the league as a result they’d be more of a meltdown than there is now from some people. Klopp wouldn’t live it down, people would be saying we should have put less effort into the FA Cup and concentrated more on the league. It’s a lose lose situation for Klopp. Unless we win every single game and every single competition there will always be people who aren’t satisfied.
We were all pissed with the displays in the Champions League on the away games, especially Red Star, but it was soon forgotten when we beat Napoli in the final game. This result is no different, if we are still where we are in a couple of months then nobody will give the slightest damn about this result.
People were complaining about the run in last season, trying to manage the squad on a run to the CL final and get top 4. That’s nothing compared to if we were trying to get a run to the CL final again, win the league and win the FA Cup, we simply don’t have the squad for that...yet. Problem is we’ve come so far in the past year that it’s like people now automatically expect us win everything going and forget there is still a lot of work that needs doing to the team in certain areas.
It’d be nice to win everything and I never go into a game with the mentality that we are going to lose, but at the same time I’d like to think I am realistic about where the club is in terms of its progression.
The up side to not being in the FA Cup means we have less games than City and Spurs, we don’t have to risk any players on a piss poor lower division pitch, we get a week off in January and a week off before our first game with Bayern.
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