A big one for me is the wild swing in performances. To go from the levels they were setting in 18/19 19/20 to how abysmal they were in 20/21 to then regain those levels last season is just unheard of in any normal sporting capacity. They had a couple of injuries at CB and no crowds but fundamentally it was the same team and same manager, sure there might be some points variation but not a 20 point plus swing and losing 6 games at home in a row after being unbeaten the 4 seasons around it.
Then you have Coutinho Can Wijnaldum Lallana Lovren have all departed and their form has absolutely fallen off a cliff. Coutinho is on Villa’s bench some games, when he left they were saying that Messi would have to move position that’s how good he was. Suarez went to Barca and got even better, that’s genuine world class, these doped up mugs have gone elsewhere and fallen flat on their face.
He’s got form for that though. Look at his Dortmund team. A few of the genuine world class talents are still performing well Lewandowski, Gundogan, Hummels, but what happened to the careers of Sahin, Subotic, Goetze, Kagawa, GrossKreutz, Sokratis, Santana, Barrios etc. Somd of them dropped from CL final standard to playing third division in a few seasons.
That young team at Dortmund should have gone on to make up the starting line ups of Madrid, Barca and Bayern for years but instead most of them fell right off form wise.
If they sold Henderson Milner Oxlade Chamberlain Gomez Firmino Jota Matip Jones right now to another club they’d be playing at a lower level prem team within a season, no question in my mind.
Class is permanent in football unless you’ve played for Klopp seemingly.
