Our transfer windows are getting worse and worse.
And I blame Klopp almost as much as I blame the idiots in charge.
Up until now, I believe, like all his so-called experts implied that he was/is complicit in methods taken to identify, and control the direction of transfers for would-be players - like when he got busted for his day out in Blackpool with VVD and their stick of rock.
I believed him when he said he had the first and last word on transfers.
I believed him, although I didn't necessarily agree with him backing himself into a corner, when he naively said there is only a "plan A" because like others I thought this was a political bluff of some sort. But it seems his stubbornness know's no bounds.
Yet, I still trusted him on this. Be calm we were told, it's only may, June, July, August they said. Nothing, days turn into weeks, weeks into months, nothing. Then Coutinho drops the bomb and suddenly we have more embarrassment of riches to accompany the shambolic VVD debacle early on in the summer. In-house has become nothing more than a circus. Forget going about our business quietly all summer and getting deals done, we've had our tail between our legs for the most part of it after embarrassing ourselves all over the continent.
I certainly didn't believe, nor did I agree with him when he said he was struggling to find better players for our team to replace existing ones. What Klopp said, to be frank was as delusional as anything BR said when he was well versed in Brent-isms.
People will now want to make FSG the sole fall-guys in this. I have no problem with these idiots getting what they deserve which ultimately is the lion's share. But like Rodgers before him, Klopp has to share his portion of blame which clearly doesn't exonerate those idiots across the pond. Never the less, he ran with the methods, he was happy with them, he said there was no plan B, he told us Moreno and Milner were like new signings - to put it bluntly he's been complicit with it all.
Much of Klopp's defence for trying to find the right players, comes back to: 'he wants players that fit his system', 'the right character' and all that psychobabble BS. Just buy the quality player instead of character profiling him to a system. All this sh*t about systems and character is us pretending to be picky when in reality we're in no position to be that picky - we're not that attractive. Instead, we're getting desperate now and we look like the shy reserved lad being the last one out the nightclub, taking himself and his unused condoms home with him, whose left thinking what might have been. From what I saw yesterday, that famous system he's assembled looked completely chaotic and at odds with itself. I like Gini. But how does he fit into a midfield system with Henderson and Can? You think that is part of a system? Do me a favour!
The bloke needs a reality check if he cannot buy a defender on the planet that can improve us. Firstly, he's dropped the round peg in the square hole - Milner, and returned a season long outcast back to LB, trying to kid us after two performances that Moreno was like a new signing. FWIW, he wasn't that bad yesterday and wasn't the worst player on our team by any stretch but we all know he's not the long term answer at LB. Yet, with that said LB right now seems a minor concern and it is, as it almost pales into insignificance with the rest of the team:
The spine.
This has been left untouched and it is literally frightening.
Mignolet looks to have reverted back to his old ways. He brought Karius who is currently no improvement on Mig's and looks in all honesty like more money wasted. Clearly another prospect Klopp would rather polish; instead of buying an established keeper to come in and take straight over from Mignolet. We're now likely to have this whack-mole selection where it's going to be one out for a number of games and one in until the next one drops a bollock. Great.
Matip and Lovren. I saw somebody refer to Matip as the gentle giant yesterday which made me laugh but right now I'll settle for him. I think he is a classy ball playing CB who does a steady job defensively. But the other f**king idiot next to him is a walking talking bag of nerves and between him and Mignolet it looked like something out of Amityville horror yesterday. While Mignolet was not solely culpable of those 3 goals conceded - the muppets in front of him with their calamitous defending would even make the most hardened keeper look like a doozey. There's no escaping that and I still don't think that penny has dropped for some.
Henderson - Can - Gini. I get that Lallana and Coutinho would supplement the midfield usually and improve us, leaving Henderson to do what he does best - carry water. But if that's the best we can muster after a couple of injuries then the alarm bells should have been ringing (and they were in my mind when the Keita deal went nowhere over the course of 2 f**king months). Again, Klopp's oversight, and again his misplaced belief in these players lead us to where we are currently - staring down a barrel with 18 days to go.
In short, we have a hopeless defence who still cannot defend set-pieces, and a hopeless midfield who don't cut it defensively or offensively.
Firmino - a controversial one for the fan boi club but I maintain he isn't the answer here either yet at the moment he now looks the least of our worries - but again another position which could easily be improved upon if we weren't being so picky and choosy.
And then, while the spine is ignored we hail the signing a winger in Salah (not much of a priority compared to that disatrious spine^^), a LB and Solanke who should have came on yesterday instead of the gormless Origi. Great f**king business Liverpool, let's go and conquer Europe now, not.
Klopp has assembled this ordinary looking squad and while FSG are the masters at shitting on everyone from a great height with their poxy, miserly policies, this illustrious system with it's 'must be a right fit' looks like a shoddy f**king mess in desperate need of quality.
Maybe now, some of the tw*ts on here who were only too happy to sling mud at BR at every given opportunity realise the kind of restraints our idiotic owners place on our managers. And while Rodgers differed in accepting the panic buys of Ballotelli forced on him; Klopp is stubborn in his reluctance to budge from "plan A" - but unlike Rodgers, Klopp told us he was in full control, and wouldn't spend exorbitant amounts of money on players, and was completely in tune with the methods of FSG - again showing way more complicity in this than Rodgers ever did. Ultimately both managers, no matter which way they've turned and operated have been hung out to dry by FSG. Yet, it doesn't mean either are immune from their own critisisms. And for that, Klopp's now suddenly found himself between a rock and a hard place. It's like he's walked straight into it with his eyes wide open. I hope he can get himself out of this mess that he's had no small hand in getting himself into because our club and team need the football side of the "franchise" to lift the spirits of the fan base and players after a diabolical summer, and a diabolical opener.
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