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


Yes I stand corrected on that, had a busy day in work, and in honesty only caught bits of there game in the background, so just mistook it.

If you can back I was saying something seemed off with Salah before Christmas, so it isn't just me jumping on that bandwagon. The continual leeking of stories, the frankly quite strange responses from Klopp, his odd body language at times etc etc. It just looked like a player who was potentially looking to go, and one where they were looking to set the lad up. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if it came out along the line that Salah maybe agreed 1 more year this season or something. A part of the problem with this, is with him being 29, and with it probably being a depressed market, which players in their late 20's will bear the brunt of, what say a Real Madrid will want to pay and what Liverpool will want will be way off. So I don't think it will be an easy situation at all. Liverpool will still be wanting the best part of £100m quid, and I suspect RM will not be in that ballpark now.

I'll put more on it, but Klopps comments about mentality, and the subs being about mentality are very telling to me.

He's made no secret that he wants to go to RM. However if you watch him, while he's yes he still by far the best player on Liverpool (even if the entire team was healthy). He knows Liverpool's situtation and he's not doing anything on the pitch that could put him in the position to potentially get injured.
 
thats only happeingin if someone wants/can afford to pay it for him. This last stretch of games has highlighted the flaws in his game, when he was banging them in for fun, someone ,ay have paid it, post covid, in this form, clubs may see it as too much of a chance that he'll fit in with their side and replicate his previous form
This.
 
From RAWK! lollollollol:bye::bye::bye::bye:

I’m old but there is no experience to fall back on with regards to a season behind closed doors or 5 ‘home’ defeats on the bounce or fill in blanks for the madness of this season.
This isn’t football as anybody knows it, or wants it to be, it’s all about money and business and entertainment and marketing and something to fill in time, the opiate of the masses indeed, but it’s not football.
The statisticians are having a field day but its largely irrelevant because this is a one off season with one off results. Its hard to keep that in perspective but it makes the unbearable a bit more bearable if you do.
If you wanted to derail us its fair to say you’d:
1.Take away home advantage by removing the 12th man.

This is a bit more than just the roar of a crowd. This is an institution that has prided itself on making a difference, sucking the ball into the net. Its also a club that picks players that respond to that adrenaline rush or want to be part of that community, who excel in that environment and who’s tactics and intensity need that environment to be at their best. The team have just not been able to recreate the intensity that they need to achieve the impossible standards they have set over the previous two years. Who were the most passionate and intense team in world football…

2. Make the season shorter meaning the hardest working team in the league has no recovery time.

a team based on heavy metal football on running harder and longer than other teams, on forcing the opposition to make mistakes, to use that roar or the crowd to fuel the adrenaline, unsettle teams, make them nervous, its just not possible in the current sterile environment in which football is being played. This is not the fault of the players you cannot recreate that intensity having lived through it, it’s not Sunday league with a crowd of a couple of hundred being the big day or giving your all every time you go out on the pitch, it is just not the same. It’s not even the same watching the bloody thing let alone playing in it.

3. Provide no pre-season to protect against injury and fatigue.

Take a team that has run itself into the ground for two years and tell them they have to work even harder.
Run the few players that remain fit into the ground and into a deep pit of despair as results grind away on confidence creating the ever decreasing spiral of quick sand…

4. Injure VVD. Take out the best defender in the league, not only disrupting the Liverpool defence but giving confidence to every other team in the league.

5. Spot the weak link in the team being a shortage of centre backs and then Injure every centre half in the club and anybody capable of stepping in.

6. If there are any signs of recovery or fighting spirit take out the captain and the heart beat of the team.

7. Ensure that injuries occur regularly, so the same players, play week in and week out and get mentally fatigued and unable to perform at their best.

8. Give the biggest advantage to the highest spending clubs with the largest squads and allow them to grow through the season further demoralising any opposition. I really don’t think it’s a coincidence that as Liverpool derailed, City’s season took off, I think the burden of being second best was lifted from them and they started believing in themselves, and their squad strength came through. The lack of crowds has also allowed the players in their squad who’s mentality was questionable last season to gain in confidence and perform like it’s a reserve game. The same is true for United, a bang average team that would have been crucified by their own support but without that expectation can get by.

9. Restrict any ability to rectify squad shortages by ensuring a world wide pandemic means nobody really wants to go anywhere in January.

10. take 2 years to figure out the best way to nullify Liverpool and then get every team in the league to follow that model whilst crippling the key element of the Liverpool tactic of a high defensive line and provide no chance for a break in order to train the team in a different approach during the season.

I don’t really find it difficult to understand why Liverpool’s season has imploded, I find it a lot harder to understand how Liverpool were top at Christmas.

Klopp looks to be a little lost and hurting at the moment and for many understandable reasons. I think his key mistake is trying to play real football in a season which is fake. It’s the only thing I think Guardiola has done well this season, adapting the City style and using players to suit the unreality of the current season. He has all of the advantages, money, squad size, media and he has as usual used those advantages. I still wouldn’t swap him for Klopp, he’s basically a flat track bully. Klopp turned also rans into champions both here and in Germany. He is the normal one but we are in unusual times, normal isn’t really suited to the nonsense being called football this season. It would be very apt if the richest club in the world buy the quadruple in a season that is all about football as a business and nothing to do with the football I grew up loving.
Who does he blame for this world-wide conspiracy against LFC?
 

I know Klopp thinks his way of playing is the only way Liverpool can possibly play but him not adapting his tactics a little considering the absence of his centre backs is genuinely really poor management.

Keep a tight defence, don't let them pull you out your shape and have quick forwards to put in behind their high line and they're very beatable... Wouldn't be too surprised to see Lookman bag against them on Sunday.

This is a great point, and it shows that he really is not THAT good as an actual manager.

He is a great coach, as he seems to get players running through brick walls for them.

The true greats, get wins, they find ways to win games in different ways.
 
I know Klopp thinks his way of playing is the only way Liverpool can possibly play but him not adapting his tactics a little considering the absence of his centre backs is genuinely really poor management.

Keep a tight defence, don't let them pull you out your shape and have quick forwards to put in behind their high line and they're very beatable... Wouldn't be too surprised to see Lookman bag against them on Sunday.
Lookman will tie that Kabak (sp?) dude in knots
 
From RAWK! lollollollol:bye::bye::bye::bye:

I’m old but there is no experience to fall back on with regards to a season behind closed doors or 5 ‘home’ defeats on the bounce or fill in blanks for the madness of this season.
This isn’t football as anybody knows it, or wants it to be, it’s all about money and business and entertainment and marketing and something to fill in time, the opiate of the masses indeed, but it’s not football.
The statisticians are having a field day but its largely irrelevant because this is a one off season with one off results. Its hard to keep that in perspective but it makes the unbearable a bit more bearable if you do.
If you wanted to derail us its fair to say you’d:
1.Take away home advantage by removing the 12th man.

This is a bit more than just the roar of a crowd. This is an institution that has prided itself on making a difference, sucking the ball into the net. Its also a club that picks players that respond to that adrenaline rush or want to be part of that community, who excel in that environment and who’s tactics and intensity need that environment to be at their best. The team have just not been able to recreate the intensity that they need to achieve the impossible standards they have set over the previous two years. Who were the most passionate and intense team in world football…

2. Make the season shorter meaning the hardest working team in the league has no recovery time.

a team based on heavy metal football on running harder and longer than other teams, on forcing the opposition to make mistakes, to use that roar or the crowd to fuel the adrenaline, unsettle teams, make them nervous, its just not possible in the current sterile environment in which football is being played. This is not the fault of the players you cannot recreate that intensity having lived through it, it’s not Sunday league with a crowd of a couple of hundred being the big day or giving your all every time you go out on the pitch, it is just not the same. It’s not even the same watching the bloody thing let alone playing in it.

3. Provide no pre-season to protect against injury and fatigue.

Take a team that has run itself into the ground for two years and tell them they have to work even harder.
Run the few players that remain fit into the ground and into a deep pit of despair as results grind away on confidence creating the ever decreasing spiral of quick sand…

4. Injure VVD. Take out the best defender in the league, not only disrupting the Liverpool defence but giving confidence to every other team in the league.

5. Spot the weak link in the team being a shortage of centre backs and then Injure every centre half in the club and anybody capable of stepping in.

6. If there are any signs of recovery or fighting spirit take out the captain and the heart beat of the team.

7. Ensure that injuries occur regularly, so the same players, play week in and week out and get mentally fatigued and unable to perform at their best.

8. Give the biggest advantage to the highest spending clubs with the largest squads and allow them to grow through the season further demoralising any opposition. I really don’t think it’s a coincidence that as Liverpool derailed, City’s season took off, I think the burden of being second best was lifted from them and they started believing in themselves, and their squad strength came through. The lack of crowds has also allowed the players in their squad who’s mentality was questionable last season to gain in confidence and perform like it’s a reserve game. The same is true for United, a bang average team that would have been crucified by their own support but without that expectation can get by.

9. Restrict any ability to rectify squad shortages by ensuring a world wide pandemic means nobody really wants to go anywhere in January.

10. take 2 years to figure out the best way to nullify Liverpool and then get every team in the league to follow that model whilst crippling the key element of the Liverpool tactic of a high defensive line and provide no chance for a break in order to train the team in a different approach during the season.

I don’t really find it difficult to understand why Liverpool’s season has imploded, I find it a lot harder to understand how Liverpool were top at Christmas.

Klopp looks to be a little lost and hurting at the moment and for many understandable reasons. I think his key mistake is trying to play real football in a season which is fake. It’s the only thing I think Guardiola has done well this season, adapting the City style and using players to suit the unreality of the current season. He has all of the advantages, money, squad size, media and he has as usual used those advantages. I still wouldn’t swap him for Klopp, he’s basically a flat track bully. Klopp turned also rans into champions both here and in Germany. He is the normal one but we are in unusual times, normal isn’t really suited to the nonsense being called football this season. It would be very apt if the richest club in the world buy the quadruple in a season that is all about football as a business and nothing to do with the football I grew up loving.
11. Having a manager who won't rotate and runs players into the ground.
 
I know Klopp thinks his way of playing is the only way Liverpool can possibly play but him not adapting his tactics a little considering the absence of his centre backs is genuinely really poor management.

Keep a tight defence, don't let them pull you out your shape and have quick forwards to put in behind their high line and they're very beatable... Wouldn't be too surprised to see Lookman bag against them on Sunday.


He was the same at Dortmund, never changed and once found out it started to go sour.


We had injuries to our full backs, there was no moaning, Ancelotti just adapted some times we had Iwobi play but mostly it was Holgate and Godfrey and they just stayed super tight and it worked in the most part really well.
 

From RAWK! lollollollol:bye::bye::bye::bye:

I’m old but there is no experience to fall back on with regards to a season behind closed doors or 5 ‘home’ defeats on the bounce or fill in blanks for the madness of this season.
This isn’t football as anybody knows it, or wants it to be, it’s all about money and business and entertainment and marketing and something to fill in time, the opiate of the masses indeed, but it’s not football.
The statisticians are having a field day but its largely irrelevant because this is a one off season with one off results. Its hard to keep that in perspective but it makes the unbearable a bit more bearable if you do.
If you wanted to derail us its fair to say you’d:
1.Take away home advantage by removing the 12th man.

This is a bit more than just the roar of a crowd. This is an institution that has prided itself on making a difference, sucking the ball into the net. Its also a club that picks players that respond to that adrenaline rush or want to be part of that community, who excel in that environment and who’s tactics and intensity need that environment to be at their best. The team have just not been able to recreate the intensity that they need to achieve the impossible standards they have set over the previous two years. Who were the most passionate and intense team in world football…

2. Make the season shorter meaning the hardest working team in the league has no recovery time.

a team based on heavy metal football on running harder and longer than other teams, on forcing the opposition to make mistakes, to use that roar or the crowd to fuel the adrenaline, unsettle teams, make them nervous, its just not possible in the current sterile environment in which football is being played. This is not the fault of the players you cannot recreate that intensity having lived through it, it’s not Sunday league with a crowd of a couple of hundred being the big day or giving your all every time you go out on the pitch, it is just not the same. It’s not even the same watching the bloody thing let alone playing in it.

3. Provide no pre-season to protect against injury and fatigue.

Take a team that has run itself into the ground for two years and tell them they have to work even harder.
Run the few players that remain fit into the ground and into a deep pit of despair as results grind away on confidence creating the ever decreasing spiral of quick sand…

4. Injure VVD. Take out the best defender in the league, not only disrupting the Liverpool defence but giving confidence to every other team in the league.

5. Spot the weak link in the team being a shortage of centre backs and then Injure every centre half in the club and anybody capable of stepping in.

6. If there are any signs of recovery or fighting spirit take out the captain and the heart beat of the team.

7. Ensure that injuries occur regularly, so the same players, play week in and week out and get mentally fatigued and unable to perform at their best.

8. Give the biggest advantage to the highest spending clubs with the largest squads and allow them to grow through the season further demoralising any opposition. I really don’t think it’s a coincidence that as Liverpool derailed, City’s season took off, I think the burden of being second best was lifted from them and they started believing in themselves, and their squad strength came through. The lack of crowds has also allowed the players in their squad who’s mentality was questionable last season to gain in confidence and perform like it’s a reserve game. The same is true for United, a bang average team that would have been crucified by their own support but without that expectation can get by.

9. Restrict any ability to rectify squad shortages by ensuring a world wide pandemic means nobody really wants to go anywhere in January.

10. take 2 years to figure out the best way to nullify Liverpool and then get every team in the league to follow that model whilst crippling the key element of the Liverpool tactic of a high defensive line and provide no chance for a break in order to train the team in a different approach during the season.

I don’t really find it difficult to understand why Liverpool’s season has imploded, I find it a lot harder to understand how Liverpool were top at Christmas.

Klopp looks to be a little lost and hurting at the moment and for many understandable reasons. I think his key mistake is trying to play real football in a season which is fake. It’s the only thing I think Guardiola has done well this season, adapting the City style and using players to suit the unreality of the current season. He has all of the advantages, money, squad size, media and he has as usual used those advantages. I still wouldn’t swap him for Klopp, he’s basically a flat track bully. Klopp turned also rans into champions both here and in Germany. He is the normal one but we are in unusual times, normal isn’t really suited to the nonsense being called football this season. It would be very apt if the richest club in the world buy the quadruple in a season that is all about football as a business and nothing to do with the football I grew up loving.

That's the ramblings of nutter
 
This is a great point, and it shows that he really is not THAT good as an actual manager.

He is a great coach, as he seems to get players running through brick walls for them.

The true greats, get wins, they find ways to win games in different ways.
Klopp is good at motivating his players but a tactician he most certainly ain't.
Once he gets found out and caught out tactically then his motivational powers
no longer work. It's hard to motivate players when they have just loss 6 on the bounce
at home and only a few short weeks ago were the best the world has ever seen.
I think a number of the Liverpool players know he could very well be on his way
next season and the way they are playing relects that.
 

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