That's what's frustrating me about Leicester almost ready to win the Title, mate. Surely we have a better squad then them and they are just about to do what we have been craving for over 2 and a half f**king decades. Pisses me right off!
It really isn't frustrating though.
Leicester have a better team than us, maybe not a better squad, but a better team. They are the best team in the league no doubt.
As for us, we may have a better individual talent and a better squad overall, but prior to Klopp, in no way have we even resembled a team. Given how much of a shambles our teamwork was, there was never any possibility that we could even begin to comprehend a title challenge. Leicester were pretty shambolic last year, but that was more to do with the quality of manager and besides, lets not forget that everything began to click for them towards the end of last season anyway. In the last months of Rodgers, we looked anything but a team, unlike Leicester under Pearson, we never did show shoots of recovery and were fast regressing. That performance this season against Man Utd away was still the most shocking I have seen in a long time (aside from Stoke away, it was always a prerequisite to show fight at Old Trafford no matter what the result would be). They were playing like individuals who had never met each other before. It was an incredibly unbalanced set of players made by the errors of Rodgers and the transfer committee. There was no consensus as to how to build a team, and both factions (management and transfer committee) were guilty of making big errors. It's no wonder that Klopp has had moments of frustration because in my opinion he had inherited a right mess.
Arguably, the squad balance is still very poor, but that is obviously not Jürgen's fault. But it's not beyond possibility that he could get them all playing together considering the astonishing improvements of individuals like Origi, Lovren and Allen to name a few. Since Klopp arrived, his immediate task for this year was to steady the ship. I think he is doing that - I've seen more resolute and resilient performances under Klopp, suggesting a new maturity for some of these players.
As said above, it's about looking at the bigger picture, and while we are obviously not where we want to be (seriously, why do some on here think some of us are happy with 7-9th place?), the performances have markedly improved since Klopp came in. There's not too many matches where we can say we deserved to lose. The players look like they know what their role is - there's less of this clueless possession and mindless defending and they seem to more or less know what they have to do. Dortmund last week was a perfect example.
The team looks like it needed brains to become tactically aware and while there's still teething problems - that's not a surprise though as we haven't had a tactically astute side since Rafa was our manager. The management team though have given that to them and it will only improve with time.
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