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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3

Lineker said:
A lot of people have been unable to go to loved ones funerals...he is hardly alone. Im only surprised he hasn't managed a famous/connected person exception to the rules.

That being said, to be more sympathetic, My dad died over the summer from cancer, and I am grateful for the fact every day that he lived in a place (Arizona) that allowed for me to visit with him often in the last few months and to be there at the funeral to be with my mother. Not everybody has been so lucky...I know exactly how lucky I am.
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Nobody is saying he's alone ?

Sorry to hear about your Dad. Glad you got to spend some time with him too.
 

Zatara said:
Once they won the title last season that would have been the perfect time to revamp the team. However due to their poor planning and the pandemic theyve really made an unforgivable error which will be compounded into a fatal one if they finish outside of the top 4.

That £70mil they spent on Jota + Thiago looks like madness now. They should have tried to move on Salah, Mane and Firminho (all 3!!!) for £60mil each last summer and then used the £250mil on 5 new u25 players across the team...

A step back to take several steps forward would have made far more sense and really kept them near the top for a few years to come.

Its Barcelona level poor planning.

Just imagine if they finish 5th (or worse) then they will have shot themselves in the foot with little strategy or prospect of getting into the top 4 next season.


As for Godfrey, i think he'll need a solid preseason with Ancelotti and the rest of the team to create and build a structure and plan going forward now alot of building blocks are in place.

This and the following summer should really push us up a level.
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I mean there's a lot of talk of "Ferguson always recruited from a position of strength" which is true, but in honesty he was also brutal in letting players leave too. The output of Mane and Firmino has really dropped this season quite substantially. Firmino has 6 goals this season, and got 9 last season. Thats in over 4700 minutes of league for 15 goals. It's over a 50% reduction in output.

Mane it's a similar story, 7 league goals when in the last 2 seasons he had 18 & 22. It's a big reduction.

I think they have ultimately missed the boat to freshen up the squad. There was probably a window where they could have maybe got £70m for Mane and £50 for Firmino but they hung on for too long.

They are declining as a result of not making the big calls in time. Selling those assets for big prices will be almost impossible this summer. As I think I said the other day, the logical thing to do is to hold the assets and the key amount of depreciation has now occured. But you can see the squad needs a freshen up, the contracts need to be dealt with and Salah is increasingly restless.

This would have been a hard process to manage for them anyway. The curveball in this has been Klopp, who at a time where innovative thinking would be required seems to have become further entrenched to the players he has. He has the potential to take what will be decline and retreat and turn it into a collapse.
 

mahermi1 said:
Fair point, but it's a helluva outlay, fee and wages, for 29 year olds, who rely a lot on pace, those types of players, normally pick up injuries, late in their careers.
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All very true.

Some clubs wouldn't be interested for sure, but, for Salah especially, I reckon there'd be interest from Bayern, Real, PSG, maybe even Chelsea and some Italian clubs.

One thing's for sure though. They won't be worth as much in the summer window and their values will continue to fall.
 
brigadier said:
He replaced lovren with the Spanish cattermole and jota, one wasnt needed the other cant play their system, I cant remember liverpool so desperate for players and have a poor transfer window, the worst transfer window in history is on him, I genuinely cant think of a poorer transfer window possibly worse than koeman's first season.
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Genuine laughter.
 
f.t.r.s said:
On a human level I do sympathise with klopp on missing the funeral..
However as others have pointed out, there are thousands of people in the same situation, so I don't understand the media attention?
Surely he'd rather be left to mourn in private?
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Its strange, and obvs, very sad.

But there hasnt been much media stuff, other than the announcement at lunchtime. But being released today, when by as far as I can tell, his Mum passed away in mid Jan seems odd to me. Maybe its legal stuff in Germany, dunno.

Either way, on a human level one does feel for a son who is unable to say farewell to his Mum.
 

On a purely human and personal level this is terribly sad news.

Sadly he manages a football club with a significant fanbase who exhibit cult-like behaviour.

They appropriate and weaponize death and tragedy, so we can expect to see what should be a purely private matter,
utilised to prove what a 'caring , compassionate, and unique' club+supporters they are.
 
John from Bootle said:
All very true.

Some clubs wouldn't be interested for sure, but, for Salah especially, I reckon there'd be interest from Bayern, Real, PSG, maybe even Chelsea and some Italian clubs.

One thing's for sure though. They won't be worth as much in the summer window and their values will continue to fall.
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I'm sure a few Turkish clubs will look for loans
 

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