I agree ... they are fairly risk-averse when it comes to transfers and like to be confident of a player's success before signing, which is very difficult to do (Maybe it's easier to predict how well a baseball player will do and they have taken the same model under the illusion that it will also work in football). I agree though, Rodgers found the 'committee' model frustrating and I get a sense that Klopp does too. Klopp very pointedly says that there is plenty of money but he also says that there is no Plan B, which (to me) suggests that the committee are suggesting cheaper, younger, players he does not fancy because FSG's valuation of Keita, VVD etc don't match the valuation given to them by their current clubs.
All this "Plan B" stuff is a bit of a myth, propagated by journo's and "pundits" who really should know better, which is why Klopp looks baffled every time he's asked about it.
Put simply, if Plan A is to improve the squad, and win as many games as possible, everything is Plan A and there's no need for a "Plan B".
It's the same with matches.
The team is prepared with winning matches in mind. That involves the core players, learning the system to beat a particular team, like yesterday, when (at times) we dropped off the Arsenal back 3, and then pressed their midfield, because the wing backs would already have moved up in support leaving lots of space behind.
That was plan A; win the match by implementing the managers strategy, and make no mistake, he will have multiple strategies in place for each match. When you see players switch flanks, that's a strategy, when a sub comes and another player moves to a slightly different position that's part of the same strategy that the squad has worked on in preparation for a match.
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