Football News: Currrent thoughts on Liverpool FC

Players performing well below standards is an issue. However, tactics and formation are killing us. Yet some see no problem with it and think plough on, everything is fine which is eerily similar to exactly what Klopp and the coaches appear to be doing. We cannot have excuses every single game as to why we are drawing or losing games, week in week out. At some point instead of having excuses on deck, do we not just think maybe we are the issue. The players and especially Klopp with the tactics and formation he is willingly to die with, even to his own detriment.

Also, fans being upset about what they are seeing should not be ostracized or be referred to as less than fans, entitled or not supporting the team. So let's debate it and have a conversation if we must because opposing views will always be there. If some think nothing is wrong, that's fine and their opinion. If some think, we were unlucky in the majority of our matches this season and should have won them all yet ultimately didn't, that's fine too. If some think, absolutely nothing is wrong with the tactics or formation then again, that's fine. But a lot of fans have a view that doesn't align with that and guess what, they are also allowed to have that and voice their concerns without be called names or their level of support for the club being brought into question.

All I ask for is if something is clearly not working then surely, I mean surely you try something different. This is what's concerning me the most. For all of Trent's problems, please watch yesterdays game and tell me who in midfield was asked to even try and cover the space Trent vacated when the manager is asking him to bomb forward? This is a tactical issue not a player issue. Trent caused two goals, yes but he has not mastered the art of being omnipresent. So then why is Klopp deploying these tactics? This is essentially football suicide as you are handing out invitations for teams to target us essentially all game.

Tell me the logic behind that and who exactly wins in this situation as clearly it's not us. Hendo was the right sided midfielder yet can anyone please tell me once when they saw him on the right flank covering Trent when he ventured forward. The answer would be they can't because it never happened. Instead he was central and left side of midfield and sometimes playing like a 10. Pactically everywhere apart from where we actually needed him, which I'm sorry made no sense whatsoever. Yet, again he continued to do that for the time he was in the pitch with Klopp and the coaches watching on and clearly not saying a peep.

VVD I have already addressed. This man is playing at 10% because his head is at the World Cup and because he knows Klopp will play him regardless so he will continue to do so. With Konate back I would suggest dropping him to send a message to others. Don't give 100% then you get dropped regardless of your squad status. But with Klopp he is too pally pally with certain players and has loyalty that is now hindering him. I mean, look at Milner as a prime example. Why does Milner have to come off the bench in every single game, regardless of the scoreline and situation. Not only does he come off the bench in every game but there are times, thankfully few and far between when he actually starts despite there being other options available. The guy is on the verge of being 37 years old and when I see him getting ready to come on it just sums up exactly where we are as a club and Klopp's shortcomings.

As for Hendo, he has been a great captain and servant of the club but his time as a starter has unfortunately long passed. Nothing going forward and nothing in defending and protecting the back four so he offers, nothing. Fabinho has flown under the radar slightly but has been in decline since the beginning of last season and just like Hendo no longer offers anything in terms of screening the defence, which was his sole job and offers nothing going forward. Out of all our midfielders only Thiago warrants a place in the starting line up but he cannot stay fit for longer than a couple of months.

Klopp said after the Napoli game that we needed to reinvent ourselves. For a second I thought maybe just maybe this was the moment in a club where they change the tactics and formation similar to how Conte did when he had a bad start at Chelsea then went to a back three and went onto win the league. I wasn't even thinking about winning the league but I was more excited that we would see a new formation and tactics. Then we come back after that defeat with the same formation and same tactics so what exactly was the reinvention? Also, what's worrying is what is his assistant and fellow coaches telling him.

We are all humans and can have blind spots to things but in life that's when your friends or family are honest with you to say, that's not right or that's not working etc. Maybe they are, which means Klopp is being stubborn and ignoring them but I don't think that's the case as he is heavily reliant on his coaches which was a trait I admired in him. So that means they are all complicit in these tactics and formation and collectively believe all is fine, which is actually worse than the first possible explanation. Now, will we instantly turn into prime Liverpool or City and start beating teams by a margin of 4 or 5 if we change formation and tactics, probably not.

But making these adjustments will see our confidence improve as players will start playing to their strengths, which in turn will improve our form, which in turn will improve our results. It's whether Klopp is willingly to change things that will determine exactly where we finish at the end of the season because you look at the fixtures leading up to the World Cup. I will get a lot of flack for saying this and people thinking, come on you are now being dramatic. But we could quite easily not win a single Premier League game or maybe winning the odd game up until the World Cup with the current tactics and formation being deployed. Again, I say with the current tactics and formation being deployed. At that point would it then be considered a crisis? because this ain't just going to fix itself without any change at all.

Written by Alonso1786 October 02 2022 15:25:15