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I think it's clear that unless we literally don't win a game for the rest of the season and get dragged into a relegation scrap, Mourinho is going to get a full summer and transfer window before he gets judged properly. Maybe when he gets Kane and Son back and brings in a couple of players then we'll morph into this entirely new side. Until then, there are a some serious red flags.
1. The defence has been absolutely atrocious. Kane and Son being injured should have no bearing on our ability to put out a coherent, organised backline. Just three clean sheets in the league since he joined, with the likes of Sheffield Utd, Wolves and Crystal Palace having lower goals conceded columns - we are closer to the worst defensive record in the league than we are to Sheffield Utd. Are our defensive players really all that bad? Are they that much worse than those clubs? We have some very highly rated and expensively signed players in our squad, is this really as good as they can get before we start trying to buy our way out of trouble?
2. The attack is also crap. It's just diabolical to watch. We just aren't creating enough chances. Football is a simple game, and in general those teams who create the most also scored the most over the course of the season. We're not doing it, and that doesn't look like changing any time soon. The movement of our attacking players is crap, their touches in and around the box seem way off and to be honest it just looks like poor coaching to me. I think I remember reading about how much time Klopp spends training his teams on attacking moves, I just don't see any evidence of that at all.
3. He doesn't appear to have a clue what his best XI is. Yes, we've had a lot of games and have needed to rotate, and yes, we've had a lot of injuries, but there's just no consistency to our systems or personnel. Again, maybe this changes in summer, but at the moment it's just a disorganised mess.
We're not the first team to have injuries in our squad, nor is there going to be this magical season when everyone gets fit and stays fit for the entire season. The fact that we are coping so badly with the loss of Kane and Son shows as much as anything else a loser's mentality throughout the squad, instead of standing up and making themselves counted the mindset just seems to be a "well what could I do? Not my fault guv". I'll remind you all that last season Liverpool took on Barcelona when 3-0 down with Salah and Firmino both out injured and Robertson going off at half time - we all remember how that ended and it wasn't with them moaning about injuries.
Like I said at the beginning, it's hard to see much changing before the summer at which point we'll get to REALLY judge this side, but at the moment this is arguably the least enjoyable season of the past 15 years. At least Sherwood had us in the top 6...
1. The defence has been absolutely atrocious. Kane and Son being injured should have no bearing on our ability to put out a coherent, organised backline. Just three clean sheets in the league since he joined, with the likes of Sheffield Utd, Wolves and Crystal Palace having lower goals conceded columns - we are closer to the worst defensive record in the league than we are to Sheffield Utd. Are our defensive players really all that bad? Are they that much worse than those clubs? We have some very highly rated and expensively signed players in our squad, is this really as good as they can get before we start trying to buy our way out of trouble?
2. The attack is also crap. It's just diabolical to watch. We just aren't creating enough chances. Football is a simple game, and in general those teams who create the most also scored the most over the course of the season. We're not doing it, and that doesn't look like changing any time soon. The movement of our attacking players is crap, their touches in and around the box seem way off and to be honest it just looks like poor coaching to me. I think I remember reading about how much time Klopp spends training his teams on attacking moves, I just don't see any evidence of that at all.
3. He doesn't appear to have a clue what his best XI is. Yes, we've had a lot of games and have needed to rotate, and yes, we've had a lot of injuries, but there's just no consistency to our systems or personnel. Again, maybe this changes in summer, but at the moment it's just a disorganised mess.
We're not the first team to have injuries in our squad, nor is there going to be this magical season when everyone gets fit and stays fit for the entire season. The fact that we are coping so badly with the loss of Kane and Son shows as much as anything else a loser's mentality throughout the squad, instead of standing up and making themselves counted the mindset just seems to be a "well what could I do? Not my fault guv". I'll remind you all that last season Liverpool took on Barcelona when 3-0 down with Salah and Firmino both out injured and Robertson going off at half time - we all remember how that ended and it wasn't with them moaning about injuries.
Like I said at the beginning, it's hard to see much changing before the summer at which point we'll get to REALLY judge this side, but at the moment this is arguably the least enjoyable season of the past 15 years. At least Sherwood had us in the top 6...