Oh i do hope this is the case.
In the past they have sold a Coutinho or a one legged youth teamer to Bournemouth to finance the next step etc.
And as you have said they are not prepared or even better likes of barca & madrid dont have the finances for a 28 year old salah or mane!
I look at our signing of Godfrey at 20ish million and if they had used there sence and bought him instead of a 52nd midfielder in Thiago they would of been alot better off. Especially with there weak cover at full back he could of filled in there too if the centre back injurys didnt happen.
I also dont think Klopp has ever rebuilt a team! He has built teams in the past and had success but it has had a shelf life and his teams crash.
I think the best answer for them would be a 12 month spending splurge on genuine world class players like they did a few years ago when they spent 300m on van dijk, fabinho, allison & keita (i know keita is a flop but they spent big money).
Hopefully they dont have the resources (no one to sell, Covid, huge wage bill) to begin a rebuild
Yes agree with alot of that mate.
They missed out on Godfrey big time. They were looking at him. He could have covered full back as well and saved them wasting money on that Greek lad who's poor. Godfrey would be much better than him as a left back and provided good competition for Robertson as well. A really stupid decision to sign Thiago, on mega wages and a big fee for a lad with 12 months to go.
They have made big sales before. However they did that from a position of strength while they had momentum going in their direction. I mean this is a wholly different situation. I also think sides have looked at Coutinho and learned, 100m is very steep and they tend to be washed up once they leave Liverpool. Coutinho was about 25 when he went too, the 3 they will be trying to flog will be 29/30, and there has been a pandemic that has crippled finances for top clubs. So I'd be frankly amazed if the get anything like 100m and if they moved them on, if they would be able to ride it out with Coutinho, as the momentum has completed gone now. The only 1 playing anything like a 100m player (in the "old" market- forget his age) is probably Salah. The other 2 are miles off it.
As for their squad guys, again sides are learning. They moved Brewster on, but that was about it in terms of selling their crap. Lallana, Grugic, Wilson etc all basically left for nothing. Minamino has gone for nothing. Lads like Origi, Shaqiri, (spoilt posh boy) Chamberlain, have all had to be kept, as nobody wanted them, even on loan. It's got a lot harder for them to move on their rubbish. If they finish a long way off, even potentially outside of the top 4, nobody is eying up their reserves for big moves.
As for Klopp, no you're right. He ran from Mainz after he relegated them I believe, then he ran from Dortmund once he knew it was over. I mean from his perspective it's fair enough, and quite smart management. But you can see his game plan is not sustainable long term. Does he really want to go and find 5-6 22-24 year olds, which will probably take 3 years or whatever and having to break this squad up to then coach then be challenge again in 3-4 years like he did with this group? Thats a 7-8 year commitment on a best case scenaior (it assumes funds are there, they will get funds for their top players, which is doubtful, that FSG will give those funds back etc, and that they can identify again such players).
The option of jumping over the forthcoming period makes sense. If he goes now he has some culpable deniability, as he did with Dortmund, where people forget the final season for what went before, and he probably moves into a bigger job, like Real Madrid or Bayern. In all fairness with both teams, he will have the resource available to go and win a load of trophies and get his reputation to be comparable with your Mourinho's, your Peps, your Ancelotti's etc which at present it's not. It's an easy choice when you think of it logically.
