Well, that was shocking, i was sitting there with my coffee and a cigarette thinking it was wrapped up after the Salah goal and then i was subjected to 6 minutes of madness!
I never ever in my life life thought i would see a worse tackler than Paul Scholes and in comes Thiago. Someone needs to F***ing remind him that this is the Premier League not F***ing La Liga. You don't get the time to do all these F***ing fancy drag backs and step overs in the Premier League, you get F***ing smashed. His tackling is pathetic, it wouldn't be so hard to stomach if there was some aggression and intent in the tackle but it's just a pathetic schoolboy effort every single F***ing time!
It was just brought up that this was Liverpool's 16th different centre back pairing of the Season! That is F***ing shocking. I don't agree with the general consensus that Henderson and Fabinho should be filling the void left by Gomez and van Dijk. We have centre backs that are actual centre backs, regardless of their experience levels they are specialist centre backs, Every day they train and hone their skills as centre backs, they should be being played. This experiment has been a failure, a failure that would have been easier to stomach if we'd actually played centre backs in there. At the very least an understanding would have been built up.
Fabinho and Henderson have been outstanding in midfield and it is clear to see that when they have been deployed at centre back we have been severely exposed from midfield attacks against all opposition. We miss the protection that Fabinho provides the back four, we miss the drive and pressing of Henderson.
We missed an opportunity this Season to push on. We missed a chance to forge our position as the best team in the land. With the injuries to van Dijk and Gomez we had to go out and spend big on a central defender to plug the gap. Are you telling me the money wasn't there after winning the Premier League?
What did our owners do? They gambled on an injury prone Matip staying fit for an entire Season. They let Lovren go (which i was happy to see happen by the way) but did not sign a replacement for the self confessed best defender on the planet. We also let Hoever go, maybe a part of the Jota deal, a mistake either way. Then when they realised they had fu**ed up they dipped into the bargain bin and brought in 2 last minute signings. Now i am not saying that these defenders will not go on to do great things for us. What i am saying is that these are not the actions of a Club that has just won the League for the first time in 30 years and is looking to build on that success. It should have been 50 to 60 million on a top class centre back, they were available.
I really feel for Klopp at the moment, he has worked miracles for this Club but at some point the owners have to realise that he can't keep pulling rabbits out of the hat, nobody can.
Most of us on here said 2 years ago that this Squad would be exposed if we hit a bad run of injuries. At some point our high intensity game would catch up with us, not a problem when you have a solid strong Squad, we don't have that Squad. Well guess what? We have had that run of injuries and we are looking very exposed.
That is on John Henry and Co.
Nobody else.
The Champions of England scrambling around in the bargain bin for centre backs they are asking to keep Liverpool at the top. Not fair on us and most certainly not fair on those players.
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