It's over for them. The end. They know it.
Look at the midfield they had to put out yesterday when they had a couple sidelined with Covid and had to reshuffle the pack. The depth isn't there.
WHEN this PL is shut down for a few weeks - maybe months soon (as it should be) - there will, on reactivation, be easily 2 games per week...possibly 3 every 10 games when you throw in Euro games and domestic cups, as the WC means there's no scope to end the season a lot later than May.
Klopp and Rat Robertson's actions yesterday have to be seen in that context: complete frustration that they are - in any case, inferior to City even when they do put their strongest XI out, but when teams need to go to the strength of their squads Liverpool are reduced to the level of a Man Untd right now or a West Ham or Leicester.
Klopp conceded the title yesterday. That's when he finally decided a PL break was the correct way of dealing with football and football fans in the coming period.
It's over for Liverpool. Over.
And I dont see them being a force in the next few years either. Possibly Salah gets off this summer, and regardless, they have an ageing first team and are another year further into the downside of their peak which happened 2 seasons ago.
Totally correct
@davek, because each club Flopp manages start off the season like an express train and the media fools and bell-end fans kick off about "it's going to be our year"' Well not this time, Sunbeam because burn out always arrives after the Christmas fixture congestion, and the horrible vicious minded ratbag knows this only too well and tries to manipulate proceedings regarding fixtures etc;
When they won the 'asterisk' trophy, if it hadn't been for the lockdown there was no certainty they would have won it. A few games prior to the lockdown the wheels had already started to fall off. The break afforded their clockwork monkeys sufficient time to re-charge their batteries. (Similar to Leeds in the Championship race).
This time with a now becoming knackered first 11, plus very little in quality squad players, will see them falling apart at the seams. As we all know, each unfavourable result leads to Llama Teeth going into meltdown. That also affects the team.
That, plus the almost certainty of empty stadia, will be enough to see them off.
Once the rot starts, it spreads very quickly.
They have had it WAY too easy, for far too long. We shall raise a glass, or six, when it happens, because, it will.