28 Jan 2018 14:06:20
Football fans make me laugh! We are so fickle it's unbelievable! After the man city result, we were all praising klopp, saying we can beat anyone on our day and champions league glory is beckoning! After 2 very disappointing and admittedly embarrassing results it's all negative! Klopp out, we need a new team, sell everyone! I'm not just talking about posts just on these pages, I'm talking about different pages I've read over the past weeks. We should be getting behind the manager and team at times like this not abusing them!

Sadly the frailties that have let us down during the past 2 games are nothing new. Defensively very poor! Lack of protection from the midfield, lack of creative quality and ideas from the midfield. Against opposition that sit deep we've always struggled and I admit it's so frustrating to sit and watch because you know exactly what's going to happen. From what macca and the eds have said, klopp is aware of these issues and wants to strengthen the weak areas. It'd be very frustrating if we don't get anyone in this window and it's looking increasingly unlikely but I'd rather not panic buy as that's got us no where in the past. We have a good team, we just need to get our form back, finish in the top 4 and build again for next year.

We have come forward under klopp (I know that can be up for debate with certain people) but I do think we have moved forward. Not massive steps but still better than where we were. If we buy right in the summer, new goalkeeper and creative midfielder are the musts for me. But another centre back, a defensively minded midfielder, right back and back up striker wouldn't go a miss either. Keep our best players, sell the likes of Milner, Ings, Sturridge, Can, Lovern, Mignolet. I think we'll be challenging on all fronts. Let just hope the team can turn things around for the rest of the season. Let's not get too high when we win but not get too low when we lose either.

1.) 28 Jan 2018
28 Jan 2018 14:28:50
This team will bounce back and will fly in the latter half of the season.

2.) 28 Jan 2018
28 Jan 2018 15:12:28
yes they will fly in the later part of season, till that time we will be out of Fa cup and Cl, so no trophy this year and may be out of the top 4 race.

3.) 28 Jan 2018
28 Jan 2018 15:36:47
We don’t actually have a really good team.

We have some good attacking players.

We have a good left back in Robertson.

We have bought ourselves a good centre back in van Dijk.

We have no good midfielders, we don’t have a good right back and we don’t have a good partner for van Dijk in defence.

Ward is the only decent keeper we appear to have and he’s a million miles away from the first team.

In this context a mid season collapse was always likely.

4.) 28 Jan 2018
28 Jan 2018 16:03:45
Let’s be realistic, another 5 minutes in the City game and we’d be looking at 3 defeats on a row.

I like Klopp and am not advocating that he is replaced, but he hasn’t addressed some obvious weaknesses and can be too stubborn. I don’t need to mention the goalkeeping situation, other than it highlights one aspect of his stubbornness.

Teams don’t win trophies if they are completely unbalanced. Klopp must surely know that but seems reluctant to address that. It can be argued that Man City have as much, if not more, attacking talent than us. However they are not embarrassed to have a player like Fernandinho protecting the back 4. Any defender in the country can be made to look poor if they are left within cover.

5.) 28 Jan 2018
28 Jan 2018 16:16:31
"We have a good left back in Robertson. " lol.

6.) 28 Jan 2018
28 Jan 2018 17:08:49
I never said we have a really good team, I simply said we have a good team. Which we do. These are talented players that got us a top four finish last season for the first time in years. For whatever reason, in the last 2 games they haven't been good enough. They haven't been good enough in other games this season either. That's just football sometimes.

Don't forget after the man city game this midfield was over the top praised! Can was apparently a beast, ox was a future captain and gini was immense. Now they are all not good enough and need to be sold. It's ridiculous!

I'm not the biggest fan of some of our players but if they pull on the red shirt I'll support them until the day they leave. My point was, some fans need to gain some perspective and get behind the team. I agree klopp is stubborn but it sounds like he wants to address the weak areas but with the players he wants only.

7.) 28 Jan 2018
28 Jan 2018 17:18:48
Doom and gloom merchants.