Can't say I read like you did Luke
All I heard was 'I don't want to blame individual players' and 'We can fix it.' Did not get any indication big changes are due at Anfield.
Feel for the guy though. Today it was as if reality hit home and hit hard. If today doesn't get Klopp to make changes, I'm not sure what will.
If it were me, Migs and Lovren would never (and I mean never) play for us again. Enough is enough and all that. If Gomez cannot do a better job than Lovren at CB, then I don't know why we keep paying his wages.
Fair enough mate, on the quotes I mentioned there was a look of acceptance to me. A resignation that he's tried to deflect and absorb for his players for long enough, a "time to face the facts" moment in my opinion.
I heard all the rest, but the delivery of these two phrases was with a much more pronounced emphasis, not just that he wanted to make a point, he wanted to make it very clearly and those points to be heard.
Firstly, it was to the defenders, you've been told you were sh*te all season, I've defended you to the hilt, today you gave me nothing to defend you with. Not one moment to cling to, not one thing where I dare suggest it was even luck, you were sh*te!
Secondly the gauntlet was thrown down to the entire squad, this week is a long week of training, time to win your place in the team because not one of you earned the right to be given that position. I, 100%, have no doubt today was a watershed for Jürgen and some of these players, points of no return have without doubt been reached.
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